Bayonetta & Half-formed Thoughts on Sexual Objectification

[paperclipchains]

I did an article on Bayonetta and exploitative representation and male gaze for class. I fully intend to rewrite it to remove the awkward class material references and to include more and just to, uh, tailor it to an audience who's already familiar with games and gaming culture. I'll link it as soon as I've got a mirror that doesn't have my full

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Re: This comment is so long, I apologize!

[sisterjune]

Glad you do! I just wanted to agree as well and explain my reasoning. Really it does deny her agency and that's one of my biggest problems with sexist media, women have NO agency.

Oh I dont want to say that ACII was horribly sexist or anything (especially when I only played part of my friend's copy)but suffice to say I really dont feel compelled to finish the game. Basically to link it to my earlier statement, the women in this game dont really have agency and the hero guy Ezio, is this hotheaded lusty male type and that in itself isnt bad or anything but he can and does sleep with various women throughout the game, usually after he is made to do something for them in missions. It was...a very eye rolling experience for me. I enjoyed the actual missions and assassin skills but everything else....meh. I wanted to connect to Ezio as the protaganist, but it was just kind of impossible because it was like the game was practically telling me "you are supposed to be a guy!".
Ezio wasnt bad looking either, if the game had at least objectified him as well it would have been better. There is a post on border house that does a much better job of explains what is wrong with ACII than I can actually, here: http://borderhouseblog.com/?p=1015

Re: This comment is so long, I apologize!

[paperclipchains]

Disappointing. I like AC but I had some issues with the first one in the same vein. ACII, I am convinced, would be a much better game if it was about a suave renaissance lady who looked like a witch hunter.