Thoughts?

She already lost any chance she had of convincing me in the very first sentence. Which is not even getting into that she then immediately drops the "misogynistic" attack in combination with weasel words like "tends to be." But this is what had already lost me:

[Characters don't] need to be beautiful to be a good character.

That's not what any of this is about. It's not that modern characters aren't "beautiful," it's that they're intentionally, perversely, and maliciously made to be ugly freaks.

Also, yeah, sorry, beauty in fiction is sort of default. It's a fictional character, you want to make them nice and appealing; they likely will be more attractive than average. Because you can do that. Because it's fiction. If you're going to design an ugly character, at least have that ugliness play a roll in character design. Beauty is fine on it's own because people like beauty. They're trying to flip the script and make ugliness the default, but without bringing an explanation or any other character traits to the table. That's just a straight downgrade. And, again, that's not even touching the other issues, like the terrible writing that tends to go along with the ideology, or that the same people who hate beauty also hate the people who are playing the game.

Basically, this poster is just dodging the real issue. Just because "combat isn't clean, elegant, or sexy," doesn't mean female characters need to be ugly freaks...while men are still generally relatively attractive, by the way. She's either ideologically captured, or being intentionally misleading. People aren't making scarred or bruised characters, they're making, again, ugly freaks. That's got nothing to do with "combat," and the whole thing is a stupid dodge.

I'd say this poster is equating intentional ugliness with character nuance and artistic freedom, but that would be giving her too much credit, since she's not willing to even acknowledge the intentional ugliness as that would blow apart her whole argument.

She hits all the usual stuff like 'misogyny,' 'male gamers,' 'porn,' 'unrealistic beauty standards,' 'making all the ugly women feel good,' and the very disingenuous aforementioned 'artistic freedom.'

TL;DR: Thoughts? It's the bog standard nonsense goalpost shifting.