Someone was having trouble finding where IGN said Stellar Blade's Eve was "a doll sexualized by someone who has never seen a woman". There's a screenshot of the google translated article going around. I just wanted to point out it was IGN France, and they stealthily deleted their statement after changing their wording and their story.
Original:
Une poupée sexualisée par quelqu’un qui n’a jamais vu de femme.
First edit:
Une poupée sexualisée par quelqu’un que l'on croirait ne jamais avoir vu de femme.
(This last sentence has been slightly edited for french speaking people pretending not to understand what we meant, and the english speaking mob who google translated the initial text.)
Second edit:
Une poupée sexualisée par quelqu’un que l'on croirait ne jamais avoir vu de femme.
(Cet article a été modifié suite à des menaces de mort - This article has been edited following death threats.)
current edit: completely removed sentence and note about death threats
https://archive.is/ihHhv https://archive.is/https://fr.ign.com/stellar-blade/69174/preview/preview-stellar-blade-le-choc-et-le-charme
Friendly reminder that anyone who claims "people who like this have never seen a real women" has no idea the main character is modeled after real life human woman Shin Jae-eun, who actually exists, indeed has internal organs, and is of legal age.
Ah yes, the classic "Hide behind fake death threats".
Also, I speak French. There's no "pretending to not understand the original text", it can't be interpreted in any other way than what it was and what everyone interpreted it as. The Google translation was just fine.
It's re-inforced by the fact that the 1st and 2nd edit doesn't mean anything in actual French. I get what they mean, but the sentence should be something like "Par quelqu'un qui, on croirait, n'a jamais vu de femme". Is IGN France even written by a French? I wonder at this point.
IGN France is probably either an American who "speaks" French or American articles translated into French.
Or could be a Belgian, or a Canadian, or from any of the African countries that have French as their national language. ;)
Speaking French doesn't mean speaking it well. Could be anybody.
MUH DEATH THREATS
Listen, just because all the women you know are fat and ugly...
You can open up tik tok or instagram and see in the first 10 seconds girls that look like that (body and face). Most of these faggoty ass journalists probably are simps of them too.
The women who work at these companies don’t look like that, though. The devs uglify their female characters so as not to threaten the female fuggos amongst them.
And why are grown men staring at children on TikTok? Now we wee why this platform needs to be banned. At least Instagram and Facebook do a better job of moderating what is visible to the public.
Sounds like death threats are an effective way of negotiating if that's what it took to get them to change the article. Much to think about.
The phrase doesn't make sense from a literal interpretation. How can someone conceptualize a sexual figure of a woman without seeing a woman?
Just checking here. Are IGN France agalmatophobic?
Who said anything about a woman?
Are IGN France misogynists? It sure sounds like it!
Fighting soggy knees by being ableist, yoikes. Here we have a company hiring blind character designers and lefties are getting mad, again.
They posted an apology(?) at the top now.
TR:
Also, BEN OSSOLA is no longer in the byline after the 1st, I didn't notice it was in the archived version.
I almost want to make this its own topic, because holy shit, an APOLOGY???
And it seems to be IGN (the company) apologizing, not IGN France. In fact, just after that, the IGNF editor went fucking insane, literally saying "Stellar Blade will kill real women."
Really hope this game doesn't turn out to just be coomerbait chinkslop