Wow, I'm genuinely disgusted. Sometimes I forget the gaming industry is still sexist like all the others.

Does a man need to be raped before we feel like he's human? Then why does a woman need to be/attempted to be raped?

I think what bothers me is that to me that's just such a gross violation of her character. She was THE action heroine. She has always been adventurous and the plane crash just made her go even farther. That's who Lara Croft is to me. But now they want her to feel like someone you'd need to protect? Apart from those…

okay this game just died a little bit for me.

I'm a writer and this interview kind of boggles my mind. I could say a whole bunch, but I'll sum it all up here:

Don't you want to see her knocked down so she can stand up and get knocked down again? Or perhaps even sorta raped? That's meaningful female characterization right?

I'm getting a little tired of developers substituting meaningful female characterization with "you want to protect her". I don't want to play as someone I'm supposed to want to protect. I want to play as a hero.

Rosenberg is doing this to make the male gamer want to protect her (by means of the controller). If this we're Nate Drake instead of Lara Croft would Rosenberg be saying how excited he is for this game because the player is going to feel an overwhelming need to protect Nate? Fuck no.

He really shot himself in the foot with that 'protect her' line. That's like Samus needing protecting, or Master Chief. I get that Lara's human and everybody needs help sometime but this most likely isn't the best way to go with such a strong icon, especially one famous for her strength, cool attitude, and her…

This. Times a thousand. This.

Thank you. This expresses my feelings about this article better than I could. This is not the Lara Craft I want to see in video games.

I'm with you. This is bad writing all around.

I'm sorry...I don't like anything I JUST fucking read right now and now I'm two clicks away from punching people in the face, in fact I NEEDED this picture to calm me down so I wouldn't go on a rant.

There is so much misogynistic bullshit in this interview that I don't know where to begin.

"When people play Lara, they don't really project themselves into the character," Rosenberg told me at E3 last week when I asked if it was difficult to develop for a female protagonist.

A female video game character who's vulnerable and needs protecting, surprise~!