Why the fuck is she being honored at the GDC tho lol.
It's just weird to honor what is essentially a political figure like that, she's not the fucking arbiter of women or what's '' problematic ''.
Imo American creators ( whether game devs, actor, comic writers etc ) are way too comfortable with trying to dictate things on behalf of industries.
I remember when Neil Druckmann had his panel and blatantly accused devs of objectifying and dehumanizing women because some devs make games where they show skin and *gasp* have breasts.
It's just bad taste and narcissism, like who the fuck made him or people like Sarkeesian the arbiters of this?
They know what they're doing, it creates this environment where devs become afraid and face a lot of peer pressure, I just dunno why they think that they get to do this on behalf of everyone.
Including women btw who enjoy said content they take issue with.
I just don't really see this behaviour outside of the US.
My favorite was always how they would dismiss all the half/mostly naked dudes in games as not being sexist against men because they were "a male power fantasy." Of course, they never asked any men if they felt that way; they just made it up and projected it onto men.
Meanwhile every MCU movie has pointless leering shirtless fanservice scenes ( or even naked scenes in the case of Thor ).
I mean I can kinda buy that most women don't find Kratos for instance to be '' hot '' visually, maybe he's a bit too gruff.
I often see Kratos being brought up and I think he's an awful example that makes it easier to dismiss.
But people who think that there aren't a fuck ton of male characters being fetishized are either being incredibly disingenuous or probably don't play game and don't see what people say about them.
League of Legends even has sub communities whos whole purpose is sexualizing the male characters.
In Anime and Manga there's even entire genres of it, which people never talk about even tho they're extremely popular.
Funny thing is too I've watched a lot of people stream the FFXIV MSQ, and by far the most thirsty streamers have been women xD.
It's not even close, and the devs also play into it too last patch there was a totally pointless shirtless workout scene with close-ups on the male character and the fangirls/boys lost their minds about it.