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Originally Posted by El Kabong
Just give BJ and Cotton their own thread where they can yell dumb **** at each other so people who want to discuss the game reasonably can do. They did the same **** when GTA 5 was released.
People care about this issue you just pick incredibly stupid spots to discuss it and do it so aggressively that it's hard to take you seriously.
I "aggressively" posted one tweet without comment that humorously commented on big developers' responses to lack of women protagonists. A bunch of people got super agitated about that, including you with a condescending meme. So don't act like it's "BJ and Cotton" slinging mud (I have no interest in engaging with him) while you and the high-minded folk are trying to have a civil discussion. The sex of the protagonist(s) at the time that I posted that was one of about TWO things we could reasonably deduce from pre-trailer information, so it was almost literally all there was to discuss.
With GTA3+, Bully, Red Deads, and LA Noire (I'm not including all of their other stuff like Manhunt which would make it much worse), Rockstar has ~14 open world games with 16 playable characters, all of them male. If what people suspect from the marketing is true about this game, we'll have 23 playable characters, all male (at the very least it will be 17).
Rockstar was already criticized for this with GTA5, and were criticized enough that they felt compelled to respond that they were telling what they feel is an important story about masculinity (lol). They've chosen to punt once again, it would seem.
I'm not sure in what ****ing universe of cognitive dissonance you live in that you both DO think representing women well in games is important, and ALSO think that it's inappropriate to discuss here and now. When do you think is the time and place to discuss it? Which threads? Which games? A quarantined thread so that you can go on living in ignorance and not have to think about anything other than "ride horses, rope bitches"?
I would not get aggressive if there weren't reason to get aggressive. The responses from many here are the responses of sexist trash. I will continue to call out sexist trash when I see it.
You're unambiguously wrong about the appropriateness of discussing it here (of course it's appropriate), but I'm fine with ignoring it for now barring further comments or news.