80% of modern men would be useless, but 98% of modern women would be too.
Frankly, the role of women in a survival environment without rule of law or complex infrastructure is something every single post-apocalypse video game gets wrong. Even before the rise of wokism, I can't think of a single game that ever got it accurately. In real life, women would go back to exactly the style of living they had in say, the 1600s. Exclusively limited to living at home with their parents, or having a husband. The only tasks they would be allowed to do would be safe tasks within the town or family house. No women would be allowed in combat situations of any kind. None. They would go back to cooking, cleaning, raising babies, grinding flour, repairing clothes, etc. And they would beg to be allowed to go back to that. Modern women only have the arrogant uppity chip on their shoulder they do now because they live in a world with very few real dangers and with a massive advanced infrastructure with millions of moving parts all maintained by men keeping them safe, warm, dry, clothed, fed, healthy, entertained, etc. Without that, their natural fear instincts take over and they will be climbing over each other to attach themselves to the strongest man they can find while they stay inside a strong sheltered place waiting for what comes.
Any video game that tried to do it realistically you'd end up with seeing absolutely zero women outside of towns or cities, and the ones you do see in towns would be married, living at home with their father, or working at a whorehouse (the other thing a ton of women will revert to when they realize they have absolutely nothing else to offer the men who will either keep them alive or kill them). There will be no female soldiers, female guards, female convoy escorts, female mayors, female adventurers, etc. The men of their family or town wouldn't let them because they're far too valuable to procreation, and the women wouldn't want to anyways because they'd be far too scared and when it comes down to it they know that they can't actually do anything useful other than raise babies, make food, and spread their legs.
Even before the rise of wokism, I can't think of a single game that ever got it accurately.
Let me direct you to the Mad Max 2015 game where the only women wandering around outside were dying of starvation or were either being actively raped or eaten by the bad guys (though if you approach the enemies engaging in such activity, the deeds were already done and you basically just encountered the aftermath in those cases, but if you used the binoculars at a distance you could basically tell what was going on before you approached).
The only prominent three females in the game included a concubine and her daughter, a drug-addled whore, and a crippled old woman who managed logistics at one of the few strongholds.
Otherwise, you are 100% correct. No game I can think of set in a post-apoc setting other than Mad Max got the role of a woman right. In that game, it was absolutely as brutal as it sounds and that was part of its charm -- it was unabashedly honest that the role of a woman in such a scenario would either be getting bent over (one way or another), helping maintain logistics within the confines of a walled domain protected by men, or being eaten.
80% of modern men would be useless, but 98% of modern women would be too.
Frankly, the role of women in a survival environment without rule of law or complex infrastructure is something every single post-apocalypse video game gets wrong. Even before the rise of wokism, I can't think of a single game that ever got it accurately. In real life, women would go back to exactly the style of living they had in say, the 1600s. Exclusively limited to living at home with their parents, or having a husband. The only tasks they would be allowed to do would be safe tasks within the town or family house. No women would be allowed in combat situations of any kind. None. They would go back to cooking, cleaning, raising babies, grinding flour, repairing clothes, etc. And they would beg to be allowed to go back to that. Modern women only have the arrogant uppity chip on their shoulder they do now because they live in a world with very few real dangers and with a massive advanced infrastructure with millions of moving parts all maintained by men keeping them safe, warm, dry, clothed, fed, healthy, entertained, etc. Without that, their natural fear instincts take over and they will be climbing over each other to attach themselves to the strongest man they can find while they stay inside a strong sheltered place waiting for what comes.
Any video game that tried to do it realistically you'd end up with seeing absolutely zero women outside of towns or cities, and the ones you do see in towns would be married, living at home with their father, or working at a whorehouse (the other thing a ton of women will revert to when they realize they have absolutely nothing else to offer the men who will either keep them alive or kill them). There will be no female soldiers, female guards, female convoy escorts, female mayors, female adventurers, etc. The men of their family or town wouldn't let them because they're far too valuable to procreation, and the women wouldn't want to anyways because they'd be far too scared and when it comes down to it they know that they can't actually do anything useful other than raise babies, make food, and spread their legs.
Let me direct you to the Mad Max 2015 game where the only women wandering around outside were dying of starvation or were either being actively raped or eaten by the bad guys (though if you approach the enemies engaging in such activity, the deeds were already done and you basically just encountered the aftermath in those cases, but if you used the binoculars at a distance you could basically tell what was going on before you approached).
The only prominent three females in the game included a concubine and her daughter, a drug-addled whore, and a crippled old woman who managed logistics at one of the few strongholds.
Otherwise, you are 100% correct. No game I can think of set in a post-apoc setting other than Mad Max got the role of a woman right. In that game, it was absolutely as brutal as it sounds and that was part of its charm -- it was unabashedly honest that the role of a woman in such a scenario would either be getting bent over (one way or another), helping maintain logistics within the confines of a walled domain protected by men, or being eaten.
I picked Mad Max up for $5 a few years back.
I'll have to try it out.
I paid full price for it when it was released (those days live now only in my memories) and was very happy with it. It’s a steal at $5.