Interesting you post this, as yesterday I watched a video criticizing her for disabling comments. I tend to agree with its assertion that not rolling with the punches of troll comments and disallowing the non-trolls to have their say, positive or negative, doesn't help her in her goal of reducing the "weak woman" stereotype. Not when male content uploaders have to face annoying crap like that as well, and many of them allow it and just let the idiots look like idiots. I know people say heinous things in those comments, but it's Youtube so there's trolls everywhere. It doesn't help her case to stifle criticism in such a way; and yes, we're commenting on it here, but how much does she has to respond to directly when it's away from the actual video? She disabled ratings as well.
Which is a shame, because I don't actually disagree with anything she said here, really.
Well, ok, I think in Nintendo's case, the princess rescue thing is more lazy than it is malicious, but she's not incorrect in saying that's an unfortunate trope to repeat in the case of women. I'm also glad she acknowledged the fact Zelda has been given more to do in recent titles, even if she reverts to the damsel at their endings.
Personally, having actually enjoyed Star Fox Adventure, I think it would have been cool to have Crystal as the main protagonist, and I see what she's saying there, even if I thought the scene where Fox finds her was more corny than offensive. After all, I enjoyed the hell out of Legend of Korra.
I do have problems with modern day feminism, but I'll save those for when she actually brings them up. In this video's case, I can't disagree that damsel in distress is an overused gaming trope, and that more female heroes can't hurt (everyone certainly seems to be loving Tomb Raider's newest), and my only dissent is that I don't think the game companies are implementing "rescue princess" stories to be assholes, but to, like jgusw said, provide a simple story anyone can follow. That, and I'm not sure this needed to be twenty-three minutes (I'm 22, I know what a damsel in distress is and that games have them; speed it up, sista!), and while it does have good presentation, I'm not seeing that she needed thousands of dollars from donators to pull any of this off, but those gripes aren't related to the content of what she's saying so, eh.
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