So Feminist Frequency talked about representations of women and about having a gender inclusive culture? Normally talking about one excludes the other because it's hard to be gender inclusive when you are walking on eggshells. It depends what they talked about but if they were saying "this representation of women is wrong" or "women should be represented this way" etc, that is a big part of the reason female characters in media are sometimes either not very well fleshed out at all or not present. It's not the only reason - sometimes it just doesn't make sense - it would be dumb to put women in a situation that only involved men - like in roles in a real life war they historically weren't in etc - but it does play a big role.
People have a tendency to respond to male characters as though they are only that one character, but people have a tendency to respond to female characters as though they represent all women and that means we get less variety in what sort of female characters we can have without people getting angry.
As a female gamer myself, I relate just fine to male characters but I personally would like to see female characters in a wider variety of roles, provided they made sense - but this isn't something I'd be yelling and screaming about like some would - it is a nice to have thing, simply because it is rarer so it is therefore more interesting (just like an unusual plot turn is more interesting than a cliche one). However, those who bitch about how one character is represented, deciding that that character represents the whole sex is detrimental to this happening. I want variety but I kind of want the opposite to what those who complain about representation want because I want variety in characters and the roles they play which will sometimes mean a character - and that's what it should be seen as, is a character, not every member of a group a character is part of - is the sort of character you might not want representing a whole group of people (which is fine because it really isn't representing that group - idiots just think it is). I would also rather people want to create these characters than feel compelled to - as an artist I have an issue with people pushing agendas onto other people's art - so I guess I wish people wanted to create more variety in characters and character roles and more variety in general honestly whether that be the plot itself etc - I just want people to want to create things a bit more out of the box and to want to create these characters in the first place due to an actual want to create them. Bitching when people do create these characters doesn't exactly help create this want in people.
If feminist frequency were discussing representation in terms of "represent this way and not that", they are wanting contradicting things because making creators tiptoe around how to represent characters because people get angry thinking they represent everyone in a group, is a surefire way to make people make less characters that fit into that group and will make a less gender inclusive culture. If that's the case, they are not being very intelligent by contradicting themselves like that. It's not surprising unfortunately though. Feminism was very important back in the day when it achieved a lot but now it seems to focus on really stupid stuff. It still could be helping real issues but that doesn't seem to be the focus, unfortunately.
I like the Feline Frequency spoof twitter though: https://twitter.com/catfreq
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