Annoyed by the critics that suddenly feel betrayed by the series because they had convinced themselves the games weren’t sexist even when it couldn’t have been more obvious. People tried to tell them Bayonetta was misogynist as fuck but they were dismissed as “sex-negative” or whatever.

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    Sexualized depiction women are inherently misogynist because we live in a patriarchal society and sexualization is distinct from sexuality. Watch the lingerie is not armor video.

    There are video games where women have nude sex scenes and they aren’t sexualized and there are video games where women are clothed and doing something that has nothing to do with sex and are sexualized.

    Saying women who enjoy misogynist things is not an attack on them. Something can be misogynist and we can have complex feelings about it. It doesn’t mean we are being tricked or have no say in how we process it. In one of the links I posted, a woman said Bayonetta was misogynist and she also talked about what she liked about the game.

    Your argument is essentially that if a woman enjoys a piece of media, it can’t be sexist. That’s a lib way of understanding things.

    The workers made the character under his direction. His ideas shaped the character. He isn’t a capitalist, he’s an artist, and a worker himself.

    This is your defense of Bayonetta:

    She and the game can’t be misogynist because there are women that like the character and games

    The series creator, the director/writer (and another producer) of the game actually had little to do with its development (citation needed) so their misogynism regarding the development actually had no effect on the game. This also implies that all the other men that worked on the game weren’t misogynist, which you somehow know.

    Ignoring feminist critics that called Bayonetta misogynist.

    That leads me to another question. Is there any popular art that you think is actually misogynist? Because if there’s something that’s enjoyed by millions of people worldwide, some of those people are going to be women which leads to popular art unable to be misogynist.