Okay, I'm not actually "done" (but I still hate the fuck out of Bayonetta)

 
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She likes sexy women.
They have no place in Smash. They have no place in an industry that is already inundated with "sexy women."

Sex is horrible and disgusting and should be destroyed, not glorified.

She's a cunt.


 
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I mean JESUS CHRIST

Why the FUCK would it matter who designed the character?


 
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It's a terrible analogy and makes no sense.

I fail to see how. My mistake was the definition of "analogy", not that I had a flawed comparison. Feel free to demonstrate how it doesn't make sense when "innocence" = "being right" and "guilt" = "being wrong". I think (just like every rational person on earth) I'm right until I'm proven wrong, just like I'm innocent until proven guilty.

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People can make whatever character they like. If they want to make a slutty ninja character that barely wears clothes, more power to them.

I'm not saying people can't make a character like that. I'm saying they shouldn't.


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You literally just said it's morally permissible to rape someone.
One birth is as bad to me as one rape
W H A T
It's probably worse than rape, actually.


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Bayonetta's a great character. Sexualization -- even the arbitrary "oversexualization" -- isn't at all tantamount to misogyny.
Sure it is.

Oh, I see.


 
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So I'm thinking that Verb is about 60% serious and 40% troll.

Like I believe he actually believes some of the things spews into our faces, but like 40% of the time he's just being a contrarian.

I mean he's smart. Too smart to believe some of the shit he believes so that's the percentage I came up with.
I think if you really look, you can tell which posts of mine are 100% genuine and which posts are exaggerated for effect.


 
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Bayonetta's a great character. Sexualization -- even the arbitrary "oversexualization" -- isn't at all tantamount to misogyny.
Sure it is.
Oh, I see.
I mean, it's in the word itself--oversexualization. As in, an excess. Excesses are never good.


 
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I DONT GIVE A SINGLE -blam!- MOTHER -blam!-ER ITS A MOTHER -blam!-ING FORUM, OH WOW, YOU HAVE THE WORD NINJA BELOW YOUR NAME, HOW MOTHER -blam!-ING COOL, NOT, YOUR ARE NOTHING TO ME BUT A BRAINWASHED PIECE OF SHIT BLOGGER, PEOPLE ONLY LIKE YOU BECAUSE YOU HAVE NINJA BELOW YOUR NAME, SO PLEASE PUNCH YOURAELF IN THE FACE AND STAB YOUR EYE BECAUSE YOU ARE NOTHING BUT A PIECE OF SHIT OF SOCIETY
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One of my problems with what Verbatim is saying is how it's wrong for something to be sexual because (and I've seen him say this before and I think this is what it might boil down to) sexual things are icky and gross. Which in itself is hardly a reason to call for the death of all things sexual in games/media. Even if it's unneeded.

And let's say it was acceptable to demand something be removed because it's icky and gross. The whole idea of sexual objectification is protecting the gender as a whole (male or female) and essentially assigning more value to the human body. (This is the part where I haven't thought this through in it's entirety I'm just throwing this out there for discussion purposes.) Wouldn't assigning the human body value as it is an appeal to nature? You're essentially saying that the human body should not be tampered with because they have to look "normal."

I don't know about that last bit but I thought I would bring it up.


 
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One of my problems with what Verbatim is saying is how it's wrong for something to be sexual because (and I've seen him say this before and I think this is what it might boil down to) sexual things are icky and gross. Which in itself is hardly a reason to call for the death of all things sexual in games/media. Even if it's unneeded.
Well, it's also because I've yet to see a reason not to think sexual things are icky and gross. I can sit down and indulge in some pornography every now and then. I'm not proud of it--I just concede that I'm a human being with a libido, a sexual desire, that wants to be sated. But after I'm done, I can stand back, evaluate what I just "enjoyed," and come to the conclusion that I don't actually enjoy it--I'm just biologically hard-wired to find that sort of thing stimulating.

There's nothing intellectually valuable about it--it's just mindless gratification, and I don't think that sort of thing ought to be celebrated in any other medium. That's what I think. So I ask people why they think their sexual desire is worth expressing in other types of media.

No one has to justify their tastes to me, and I understand that. But I still don't get it.

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And let's say it was acceptable to demand something be removed because it's icky and gross. The whole idea of sexual objectification is protecting the gender as a whole (male or female) and essentially assigning more value to the human body. (This is the part where I haven't thought this through in it's entirety I'm just throwing this out there for discussion purposes.) Wouldn't assigning the human body value as it is an appeal to nature? You're essentially saying that the human body should not be tampered with because they have to look "normal."
...That's an interesting point. You're using your head, unlike challengerX. I respect that.

I don't really have a response. That caught me off guard.

I guess all I can really say is that I don't think it's the "natural order" that I'm trying to defend, exactly--but the more I think about it... That's still pretty much all I'm doing. That's what it boils down to. Huh.

I'll think about what you just said. You might have just changed my philosophy a little bit.
With a throwaway point you weren't fully confident with, no less.


 
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#13
One of my problems with what Verbatim is saying is how it's wrong for something to be sexual because (and I've seen him say this before and I think this is what it might boil down to) sexual things are icky and gross. Which in itself is hardly a reason to call for the death of all things sexual in games/media. Even if it's unneeded.
Well, it's also because I've yet to see a reason not to think sexual things are icky and gross. I can sit down and indulge in some pornography every now and then. I'm not proud of it--I just concede that I'm a human being with a libido, a sexual desire, that wants to be sated. But after I'm done, I can stand back, evaluate what I just "enjoyed," and come to the conclusion that I don't actually enjoy it--I'm just biologically hard-wired to find that sort of thing stimulating.

There's nothing intellectually valuable about it--it's just mindless gratification, and I don't think that sort of thing ought to be celebrated in any other medium. That's what I think. So I ask people why they think their sexual desire is worth expressing in other types of media.

No one has to justify their tastes to me, and I understand that. But I still don't get it.
Alright I understand that. That's fair.
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And let's say it was acceptable to demand something be removed because it's icky and gross. The whole idea of sexual objectification is protecting the gender as a whole (male or female) and essentially assigning more value to the human body. (This is the part where I haven't thought this through in it's entirety I'm just throwing this out there for discussion purposes.) Wouldn't assigning the human body value as it is an appeal to nature? You're essentially saying that the human body should not be tampered with because they have to look "normal."
...That's an interesting point. You're using your head, unlike challengerX. I respect that.

I don't really have a response. That caught me off guard.

I guess all I can really say is that I don't think it's the "natural order" that I'm trying to defend, exactly--but the more I think about it... That's still pretty much all I'm doing. That's what it boils down to. Huh.

I'll think about what you just said. You might have just changed my philosophy a little bit.
With a throwaway point you weren't fully confident with, no less.
That one had been stewing for while ever since this thread took off. Fortunately I finally found the right words to adequately describe the idea, even if I wasn't entirely sure of it. So let me know what you think after a while, I'm intrigued.
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I was about to say salt into sugar, but that works too.


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Feminists love bayonetta tho


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So... I guess I'm going to have to pick up after your horrendous mistakes on here too?
Wait, this (pointless) argument is still going on?


 
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Feminists love bayonetta tho
Feminists are not hiveminds who agree on everything.


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I neither fear, nor despise.

Sex is horrible and disgusting and should be destroyed.

Leave this planet


 
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Feminists love bayonetta tho
Feminists are not hiveminds who agree on everything.

A perceived majority of people who identify as feminists appreciate bayonetta as a strong female character.


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Would if I could.
You actually can kill yourself.  You'd probably make the world that bit less spastic.

We dont need doombringers in this society.


 
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A perceived majority of people who identify as feminists appreciate bayonetta as a strong female character.
They're all wrong.


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Leave this planet
Would if I could.

Nasa is looking for astronauts to Mars. You'd be free of humanity except for perhaps 5 other astronauts, AND you'd crush Naru's dreams of going to space by taking his spot.

Win Win.


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A perceived majority of people who identify as feminists appreciate bayonetta as a strong female character.
They're all wrong.


It seems to me that the only people who think she's a misogynistic character haven't played the game.

Have you played the game verbsation?


 
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It seems to me that the only people who think she's a misogynistic character haven't played the game.

Have you played the game verbsation?
I don't need to. I can simply observe. I'm not talking about the game's gameplay. I'm talking about her design.


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Where's your proof for all this?
It's common sense. Ask any girl what her opinion on women's representation in games is. I swear, do it.

Some of them will say they don't care--they're misogynists. They betray their own gender.
tbh the idea that someone owes alegiance to their gender and its image is one of the core aspects of sexism


 
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Wouldn't assigning the human body value as it is an appeal to nature? You're essentially saying that the human body should not be tampered with because they have to look "normal."

Feels like a bit of a stretch, tbh. It's an interesting thought no doubt, and the most creative response I've seen thus far, but while something being "natural" obviously doesn't make it "good", it also doesn't make it "bad." Like homosexuality -- it's "natural", but it's not wrong because of that. Making a character's body natural (i.e., untampered with, or realistic) is not wrong. Especially considering that making said character's body unnatural (eg., legs for days) is done with the sole intention of selling copies.

You need to demonstrate how something is wrong for it to be wrong. Which we have done here.