"How dare this developer make up their own mind about the way they choose to portray women! We only defend a developer's artistic decisions when they validate our bias."
There is so much mental gymnastics going on that it boggles the mind.
Some common misconceptions about moves like this:
1. Not putting a woman in a bikini while she fights is not the same as being afraid of sexuality.
2. Not putting a woman in a bikini while she fights does not automatically make that woman ugly or plain.
3. Not putting a woman in a bikini while she fights does not mean that developers don't want to make their female characters attractive.
4. Putting a woman in a bikini while she fights with YOU being okay with it does not somehow make you more enlightened and less sexist.
5. Knowing women who are okay with women fighting in bikinis does not make YOU right when you rail against a perceived SJW agenda.
6. Fighting tooth and nail for your right to enjoy female dolls designed for your amusement is not somehow better simply because it conforms with what used to be the status quo.
Get used to change, haters. If you want to be genuine about your shock, you're going to have to choose a more substantive side to stand on because defending artistic choice only when it means you get to see boobs doesn't hold water.
"How dare this developer make up their own mind about the way they choose to portray women! We only defend a developer's artistic decisions when they validate our bias."
The people complaining are the very people that have bought Mortal Kombat games over the years, which is the only reason they get to make Mortal Kombat 11. How dare they be annoyed that they are being ignored on this matter and that the franchise they helped build is getting highjacked by people who are afraid of sexuality and call for it's eradication from all media.
There is so much mental gymnastics going on that it boggles the mind.
You've been taking lessons.
Some common misconceptions about moves like this:
1. Not putting a
MAKE BELIEVE woman in a bikini while she fights is not the same as being afraid of sexuality.
Correct, it's being afraid of outrage from people who are afraid or sexuality instead of catering to long-term fans.
2. Not putting a
MAKE BELIEVE woman in a bikini while she fights does not automatically make that woman ugly or plain.
Correct, they also give them more square proportions and outright break the face models, creating characters that in no way resemble the characters from the earlier games.
3. Not putting a
MAKE BELIEVE woman in a bikini while she fights does not mean that developers don't want to make their female characters attractive.
Correct, they artists likely did want to make them attractive but the creative director told them no because a small group of people are afraid of sexuality.
4. Putting a
MAKE BELIEVE woman in a bikini while she fights with YOU being okay with it does not somehow make you more enlightened and less sexist.
Correct, because nobody is being either. Apparently enjoying the female form is now considered sexist despite it being a completely natural thing. Entitled, maybe, but again this is the group that made Mortal Kombat a success.
5. Knowing women who are okay with
MAKE BELIEVE women fighting in bikinis does not make YOU right when you rail against a perceived SJW agenda.
Correct, regardless of SJW agendas I am always within my right to express concern regarding matters and I should feel free to express those rights without people judging me for it.
6. Fighting tooth and nail for your right to enjoy
MAKE BELIEVE female dolls designed for your amusement is not somehow better simply because it conforms with what used to be the status quo.
Correct, but nobody is fighting for the status quo. Ratings and content awareness boards exist now to inform people about content, the status quo already changed. If I still choose to buy a product with sexual content, that is my choice as an adult. People are creating pressure to erase all sexuality from games despite there already being measures in place to protect the people that are so afraid of sexuality.
Get used to change,
haters People who have preferences that differ from yours are all haters. If you want to be genuine about your shock, you're going to have to choose a more substantive side to stand on because defending artistic choice only when it means you get to see boobs doesn't hold water.
Because you get to decide what is import to everyone.
Artistic choice means jack shit if nobody wants your artistic choice. Get used to seeing virtue-signalling studios that abandon their own fanbase continue to perform poorly. They've already tried to fix some of the ugly-stick'ed characters based on fan backlash so obviously "artistic choice" isn't al there is to this. Boiling down people's complaint to "boobs" is narrow-minded. Today a small group of people successfully helped remove attractive women from a video game, feather in their caps, now what is their next target for outrage? Removing fatalities? Removing any violence? It's bad enough they complain only of the poor women and don't seem to care that a giant Russian man in red gitch is flying through the air with a woman's face smashed against his dick doing a piledriver. They don't care because they actually genuinely don't care, they're just making a scene for the attention.
