The only sexism accusatory post I've seen on Tumblr as yet.
They feel that slapstick comedy against a woman is wrong and Nintendo is sexist for Mac overreacting to Samus's teasing, despite an earlier trailer featuring the Wii Fit Trainer blowing away Mario, Kirby, and Link for absolutely no reason.
99%'s an exaggeration, but yes, many are wont to look into things too often. I don't want to start a huge debate on it, but it's very easy to flat out dismiss opinions that are different from yours if you're going to lump them all into a giant "feminazi" stew pot.
I agree 100% that this is an overreaction, though: Mac's short. Samus isn't. They're both fighters who give as good as they get.
edited 14th Feb '14 10:48:22 AM by Hashil
I don't like taking things at face value. There's reading too much into things and then there's not thinking about implications or meanings at all. I prefer the former, although I personally believe that tumblr is actually more often somewhere in the middle.
'The unexamined life is not worth living.'
When I like communities like TV Tropes or tumblr or what have you, it's when they, in their own ways, think about and examine the effects of structures present in media. Yes, even in Mascot Fighting games.
I can disagree with a position without dismissing it out of hand as "lol -insert place or community or group I don't like here-" unquote. I disagree with the position vis-a-vis feminism and Samus getting attacked for making fun of someone's height in a match. I can leave it at that.
edited 14th Feb '14 10:52:42 AM by unnoun
Sonic 2006 was horribly bad and needed to be purged out of existence, but there was no real need to get rid of Silver was it even if he never was fan favourite?
Heck, Other M suit isn't that different besides few more tron lines, no? Zero suit is pretty crappy though in Other M because of heels... Despite original concept art of it from Zero Mission explicitly saying no ridiculous heels.
edited 14th Feb '14 10:52:43 AM by SpookyMask
edited 14th Feb '14 10:54:22 AM by Mukora
"It's so hard to be humble, knowing how great I am."I love Tumblr and most of its community, but I'm not the least bit surprised to see someone claiming sexism over a simple scene in a trailer.
There's women everywhere that get raped and sometimes even get the punishment themselves, but apparently the priorities are to stop people from enjoying Nintendo games because somebody might feel "offended".
And like everyone with a bit of culture said: The whole game is character fighting the shit out of each other, male or not. If anything people should be glad to see more of the female characters since it was apparently the big dealwith feminism and Smash. Personally I'm actually a girl and i never minded the lack of any female character, but if we're getting more of thoses I'm not against it.
Ahh, the idiocy of Tumblr "social justice". Once I get out of work, I'm going to rip right into this shit.
Long live Cinematech. FC:0259-0435-4987...I don't think that's a great idea, and I think just leaving it at "disagree" is the best option. Especially since "ripping into it" seems like the wrong thing to do. Especially since there would more than likely be disagreement. Especially on the nature of "idiocy" unquote.
Can we actually talk about this game?
edited 14th Feb '14 11:10:39 AM by unnoun
I'm not going to insult the person. When I say I'm gonna rip right into it, that just means I powerfully deconstruct the problematic viewpoint with cold hard facts.
Long live Cinematech. FC:0259-0435-4987

It's considered sexist because Tumblr finds everything sexist somehow. Even if it takes Fan Wank.
edited 14th Feb '14 10:23:52 AM by Nap1100