ResurrectedContrarian
Suffers with mild autism
I think what bothers me most is the whole concept of game characters being involved in someone's empowerment, in any way.
If anything, the characters on screen are like puppet toys that you control. Fantasy puppets whose strings you pull. You think all the men who choose female (or alien, or bizarre) characters in games are identifying with them or internalizing them? They just want to control a puppet that looks cool, creepy, or attractive or whatever.
They don't bear the burden of "representing" you any more than the beloved Skeletor toy of my youth made me want to have empty eye sockets.
If anything, the characters on screen are like puppet toys that you control. Fantasy puppets whose strings you pull. You think all the men who choose female (or alien, or bizarre) characters in games are identifying with them or internalizing them? They just want to control a puppet that looks cool, creepy, or attractive or whatever.
They don't bear the burden of "representing" you any more than the beloved Skeletor toy of my youth made me want to have empty eye sockets.
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