It's still subversive in the sense that it's feminising men.
Almost every other new franchise (east or west) stars a female.
There's a deification of the female form in the zeitgeist, regardless of where the media is coming from.
This is having an averse effect on how men view themselves and the world around them. A lot of them being feminised through the constant conduit of culture being shoveled down their throat through the lens of feminism.
This isn't new, though. Since I've been going back and re-watching a lot of classic Hong Kong flicks also mixed in with newer media from South Korea and China, one thing that constantly stood out to me was their lauding of the single-mother.
I was re-watching some of Francis Ng's old films, because I thought he was such a badarse. And Bullets Over Summer is him falling in love with a single mother. I didn't think much of it at the time, but then I was re-watching some old Chow Yun Fat movies, and Wild Search was once again the hero pining over a woman who was basically in a similar situation as the other film.
This theme kept popping up, including newer films, like The Grandmaster, which was... you guessed it, the main hero chasing after a hard-to-get single mother who got knocked up by Chad, and then Chad fled.
There are about a dozen other films from "based" Asia that push the deification of the single-mother. It's a very prominent theme in more films than it should be, and something I began to recognise when re-watching older films.
It's odd because when you juxtapose that with say, Bollywood or Telugu films, they absolutely do not promote single-mothers -- just the opposite, the hero is always chasing after single, virginal women. There's strong promotion of masculine men getting with pure women.
Anyway, this is to reinforce your point that gaming culture -- even the so-called "based" kind -- seems to be adopting the propaganda of television and movies. The constant deification of women.
While I appreciate that Chinese, South Korean, and Japanese designers still prominently feature attractive women, what is not good is that this all comes at the expense of promoting cultural masculinity. It's now a dying form of psychological reinforcement for male behaviour. And with the way a lot of today's youth act -- emotional, unable to stand on principle, and led around by their feelings -- it's a scary trend that won't have a good outcome.
It's the bogus "equality" of feminism in action. No one is pushing to masculinize female spaces. My go to example is Young Adult fiction. YA readership is overwhelmingly female. Why is there no astroturfed campaign to convince us that men are half of YA readers? Or that there's a huge untapped male audience calling for representation? Why aren't they injecting middle aged male protagonists into YA books? Shouldn't teenage girls be forced to absorb more diverse experiences? If they don't want that stuff, shouldn't we call them bigots?
100% agree.
It's still subversive in the sense that it's feminising men.
Almost every other new franchise (east or west) stars a female.
There's a deification of the female form in the zeitgeist, regardless of where the media is coming from.
This is having an averse effect on how men view themselves and the world around them. A lot of them being feminised through the constant conduit of culture being shoveled down their throat through the lens of feminism.
This isn't new, though. Since I've been going back and re-watching a lot of classic Hong Kong flicks also mixed in with newer media from South Korea and China, one thing that constantly stood out to me was their lauding of the single-mother.
I was re-watching some of Francis Ng's old films, because I thought he was such a badarse. And Bullets Over Summer is him falling in love with a single mother. I didn't think much of it at the time, but then I was re-watching some old Chow Yun Fat movies, and Wild Search was once again the hero pining over a woman who was basically in a similar situation as the other film.
This theme kept popping up, including newer films, like The Grandmaster, which was... you guessed it, the main hero chasing after a hard-to-get single mother who got knocked up by Chad, and then Chad fled.
There are about a dozen other films from "based" Asia that push the deification of the single-mother. It's a very prominent theme in more films than it should be, and something I began to recognise when re-watching older films.
It's odd because when you juxtapose that with say, Bollywood or Telugu films, they absolutely do not promote single-mothers -- just the opposite, the hero is always chasing after single, virginal women. There's strong promotion of masculine men getting with pure women.
Anyway, this is to reinforce your point that gaming culture -- even the so-called "based" kind -- seems to be adopting the propaganda of television and movies. The constant deification of women.
While I appreciate that Chinese, South Korean, and Japanese designers still prominently feature attractive women, what is not good is that this all comes at the expense of promoting cultural masculinity. It's now a dying form of psychological reinforcement for male behaviour. And with the way a lot of today's youth act -- emotional, unable to stand on principle, and led around by their feelings -- it's a scary trend that won't have a good outcome.
It's the bogus "equality" of feminism in action. No one is pushing to masculinize female spaces. My go to example is Young Adult fiction. YA readership is overwhelmingly female. Why is there no astroturfed campaign to convince us that men are half of YA readers? Or that there's a huge untapped male audience calling for representation? Why aren't they injecting middle aged male protagonists into YA books? Shouldn't teenage girls be forced to absorb more diverse experiences? If they don't want that stuff, shouldn't we call them bigots?