zer0hunter
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zer0hunter

That’s just RUDE.

I have become (and I’m super proud of it) more difficult with age. I will not compromise my intelligence, dedication to feminism, the word feminism or any of the various aspects or myself not seen as “feminine” in order to find a man who will care about me. If I have to wait, so be it.

I tend to attract ‘challenging’ women...the kind that threaten to kill themselves over small disagreements and the kind that leave me for their ex because I don’t beat the shit out of them like the ex did.

Yup. I got to that part and I’m #TeamGuyWithTheGroceries.

Sounds like she found someone, which is good for her. But yeah reading through this I’m sure there were asshole “traditional” men who were awful to be around and deserved the snark she and her sisters gave... but like mocking the guy just trying to help their mom with the groceries... yeah I would have GTFO of there.

There can be a fine line between being challenging and just being an asshole.

As a man who was raised predominantly by women, and was taught to open doors/help with the chores/be polite and kind/cook/clean/etc., you’d be surprised how incredibly common it is for people (men and women) to mock you for helping them.

What you would call ‘challenging’ in a woman, you’d surely call at least borderline ‘abusive’ in a man. My rule; people who are ‘challenging’ should accept an equally challenging partner. This is not what I’ve read out of this. She’s been looking for a human Piñata who will simply absorb anything she levels at him.

Men who can’t handle challenging women seem to be the rule, not the exception. Just as challenging women who haven’t had that aspect ground off by life (or self-suppressed) are the exception - especially if they value relationships. Almost all relationships require compromise. Not poking. ;)

Why not? The movie “Alien” wrote the whole cast gender-neutral. The writers were just as surprised as anyone when the lead wound up being a woman.

I’d even argue that starting out with a gender, sexual orientation, or race for a character before developing said character could create even worse issues such as stereotyping. I could just imagine developers going “how can we make this character blacker?” “How can we make this character gayer?” “How can we make this

I think you missed the point. Why does “straight white male” HAVE to be the default? You ask why they would change something they came up with, well, because if the only reason they came up with it that way is because it’s subconsciously the default, then what's the problem with thinking about other directions you can

The point is that she is a character whose gender is irrelevant to the story so rather than making that character male as would probably be the norm, they changed the character to a woman because their gender didn’t matter to the story and anything that can be done to break stereotypes is a good thing in my book

Wow. I don’t think that is at all the purpose of the question (to shoehorn.) -and it shouldn’t stop at female. It should include race, etc., as a story and character development tool. Would changing this characters gender affect the characters role? Thats a good question to ask, and just because the answer may be no,

Yeah, it’s about time that straight, white males finally get their due.

I mean, we’re not talking about creating characters and then gender-swapping them. We’re talking about a preproduction process where the writers might say something like “alright, and then Nate and Sam go into this old man’s house” and then someone says “what if it’s a woman?” and everyone’s like “hey yeah.” Maybe

its just a different approach to creating more interesting characters. From your response, it seems like you don’t understand that. They aren’t taking a fully fleshed out character and then just adding boobs and skin tone. They are taking what is an outline for a character and asking more questions about who the

I don’t think you need to know a character is gay or female or black or anything else before you start developing that character. After all, the character is a person first. Whatever differences exist between individuals in terms of race, gender, or sexual orientation, those differences are vastly outweighed by what

As a concept artist, I think asking that question consistently is really empowering, actually, as long as it’s responded to appropriately. It’s not a “can we fit a female/nonbinary/minority into this character?” sort of thing, it should be moreso “is this character better as something other than a while, straight

And why stop at female? “What if they weren’t white?” “What if they weren’t straight” Are there any gay characters in Uncharted 4?