Sweden a country sooo much detroyed by feminism that in 2015 the newest word to enter the Swedish dictionnary is the nickname everybody gives to
I wonder what a feminist boogeyman would even look like. I can just imagine my daughter tucked up in bed while someone whispers 'equality in representation and rights for women'. How terrifying she might find that, especially when it's her dad saying it.
I have seen that too. I'm surprised that there is not a discussion about on here.
Thing is Alita is legit an attempt at conciating the OAV and the manga storyline and barely changing any story beat at all ...
Someone mentioned that to me the other day, and I was really surprised the alt right adopted it. 'Yeah, go see the film about the badass female cyborg that rips apart male gladiators, that'll show 'em!' :D
What's even worse is that Gally's constant change of over all body parts and sometimes full armor suits , is a constant comment on women's constant lack of bodily anatomy even reborn as a cyborg , and it always seem to litterally fly right above their heads ...
Actually playing through DMCV, I'm a bit more conflicted over Lady's and Trish's designs because they were desexualized from DMC4's designs. Trish's breast size was reduced to be closer to her DMC1's design and Lady actually wears clothes. The problem is that they kind of...are just there. I do think that DMCV was trying to reduce the amount of fanservice (as bad as Lady's naked scene is, I haven't come across anything as bad as the Gloria fight in DMC4) but ended up kind of not really having anything to do with the characters other than being a pair of extra hands.
Trish in DMC4:
Trish in DMCV:
It's still the same outfit but her bust size has decreased to be more in line with DMC1's design.
Lady's kind of annoys me since it is an improvement over DMC4's but there's...uh...I don't think Lady knows what the purpose of pants are...
DMC4 Lady
DMC V Lady
Like there is a clear attempt to tone down the sexualization of the character from IV for both characters (more obviously lady) in the design. But while that is a positive (for the most part because again, Lady and pants seem like a foreign concept at this point), their use in the story is greatly diminished and they still get a few fanservice scenes really for no reason.
You read the manga ? You've seen the original OAVs from the 90's ?
It's entirely because female empowerment is part of Captain Marvel's marketing campaign. I always found that cynical and exploitative, but these motherfuckers find it straight up offensive. So they latch on to another movie with a female lead to support a movie that does women's empowerment "right."
Then go see the movie first see if the premise of the story would be up your alley , then and only then dive into the manga.
Hmmm, isn't Sweden actually pretty fucking great by many metrics. Things like safety, freedom, enviromental sustainability, gender equality(!) etc. So yeah not a bad idea to travel there actually, or even live!
It can be internalized, too. I was reading some stuff from an author who made his living hammering out genre fiction on Amazon. Effective use of tropes and knowing how the audience reacts to them, he claimed, was a key to his success. One example was grizzled starship captains in military science fiction. He talked about how far you could take the trope and keep it fresh without straying to far from what makes it appealing. But he said making the grizzled starship captain a woman would result in less reader engagement, and therefore less money. Doesn't matter how well written and compelling she is, he claims, it will impact his bottom line.
In my experience, people who brag about their IQ aren't nearly as clever as they think they are.
He was horrible but served a narrative purpose and also Gally was in love with him he didn't reciprocate and was a big doofus about it all , but he had a narrative purpose and led Gally to progress as a character. Sure he was a fairly flat character ( not too surprising given he isn't the focus of the story and is a a throwaway for Gally to grow up ) .
Honor Harrigton book series struggles to please because actual woman admiral that have seen way too many battlefields doesn't seem to interest a lot of people yes.
I haven't played XCOM 2, so I couldn't really answer on that.
She's got a tiny plot all to her own and even joins your squad to help you in some mission ( Hell I'd like her to create Gremlins as powerfull as hers for my squad ... selfish genius ... yes I'm pouting ... don't judge me , play the game and you'll see you'll be jealous too )
I've read a lot of pulp military sci-fi, and they've mostly fallen into the realm of 'understand the physics of dynamic space combat really well but can't write characters for toffee' (Jack Campbell), or those that struggle with both. I do really like Marko Kloos's 'Frontlines' series though, that's probably the strongest all-round military sci-fi I've read in years, which has it's main female characters as an infantry NCO and a dropship Pilot. Really good use of truly alien enemies and an understanding of time/distance in the scales involved, although the lead is a grizzled bloke again.
Sadly outside of Honor Harrigton most of the space opera in a militaritic environement I'm reading is written by french women (who are almost all French Navy Veterans , who use to have high grade ) sooo sadly I can't recommend Honor Harrington enough because it's the only one I can reccomend to an english speaking audience .
Marvel really don't know what to do with the character, huh?
