This has been the case for years now, but it still boggles my mind. Gaming is an overwhelmingly male hobby. 90% of the people playing enthusiast level video games are male. Yet the clear majority of protagonists in these products are female.
New resident evil? Female protagonist.
New Ghost of Tsushima? Female protagonist.
New Hollow Knight? Female protagonist.
New Silent Hill? Female protagonist.
New World of Warcraft expansion? Female protagonist.
And that’s just the biggest trailers of the night. Gay ass indie is almost entirely female (or queer coded) characters.
Is there another industry that hates its own core customer base this much?
If you think it’s just gaming you’re in for a rough ride, see while “conservatives” are crying about men in women’s sports, there are now female football “coaches”, “players”, “refs”, and announcers (who can’t even name the plays being run and spend most of the time talking about how the players feel). It’s so brazenly bad they put a d3 female “football player” (who played one play and made zero contact) in an ad with top college players. The NFL had a commercial run trying to sell the nfl to Mexicans through flag football and it was a woman juking out pro players who were all inept. Sports currently hates their fan base so much that they will gleefully pander to people who will never even play or understand the sport better than “look at me I wear certain colors of overpriced clothes!”. Meanwhile those same “fans” are the ones demanding contact sports get neutered into the ground, because the sport doesn’t actually matter to them, wearing certain colors and jumping for attention does.
I could see the NFL having a female kicker one day and watch the hatred the player gets who tackles her when a kick is blocked or something
We’ve already seen it in college football.
Didn’t she run off the field as soon as she kicked? If they want to play so bad I don’t want to hear any complaints when they get steam rolled
Oh, you’ll hear them. Loud and constantly.