Slate Gamedrops: "Ghost of Gamergate"
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A fact not even disputed by this article.
I find it kind of funny how this biological male is complaining about angry boys
She could poison him or bang him and stab him in his sleep. I don’t think a fit female could over power and kill an over weight 40 year old male.
You know the use of the word murder is interesting as well. Because I don't think anyone is saying women can't murder a man, they are saying a woman killing a man in combat, especially hand to hand, is an outlier and not a rule
I'm just saying, we would not be suffering these delusional tirades if backhanding uppity broads was common practice. Most women have absolutely no idea how out of their league they are in the realm of physical violence.
Sean Connery has returned to us
But of course devs don't wanna do realistic female assassin shit. Not anymore.
Which is funny, I remember playing the first female Assassins Creed game, that spin off of 3. It was interesting the way she could get outfits and hide and do actual sneaky assassinations Hitman style, blending in with the help, donning a high society dress and mingling with the bourgeois, all kinds of stuff.
And she had silent killing tools at her disposal, with poison darts and strangulation devices and such.
It was still a little ridiculous, because people would notice some black broad trying to play high society in pre civil rights era USA, but it was a lot less "macho ma'am tranny savage" and a lot more real assassination type stuff
A woman could absolutely murder a strong combat-trained man. A woman outfighting that man is a different matter. I'm being pedantic, since the discussion is about the latter anyway, but it's interesting phrasing from the article.
Yes it is a little bit of a tiny linguistic motte and bailey ain't it?