[ SECRET POST #2929 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2929 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I sort of figured 'problematic' was better for discussing trends, not specific examples.

Video Game 1 having a middle aged brown haired white male main character isn't sexist or racist.

Video Games 1-159 having a middle aged brown haired white male main character and Video Games 1-5 having anything else is problematic. Each specific example is fine, but taken as a whole body of work it shows that there's something going on.

A Marvel Movie being about a white man is fine. The fact we have 9 with 6 more scheduled before there's one with a lead black dude? Problematic.

Your friend being $5 short and needing you to spot him one day is fine. Your friend begging you for $5-10 dollars every single day and every time you talk to him is mooching and becomes problematic.

And yeah, people use it wrong, but the examples people give of "Just say it's racist/sexist/homophobic!" doesn't really work all that well. They work great for specific examples! But not for trends. An example would be when someone talked about a Zelda game where you could only play as Zelda, and people jumped all over it as sexist. Limiting your player character to one option was sexist, if you wanted it to be equal you would have to have it where you could play as Zelda or Link. Except that only works if you consider it as one game on its own, and not one part in a long list of games that has only had one option, the guy. It's not 1:0 female in one game, it's 1:14 in the franchise.

Problematic is like BMI, utterly useless when applied narrowly, a decent tool for discussing large scale.