Forum Overview :: Gamerasutra :: So? That doesn't matter. The girl being saved still isn't the object, the act of

[quote name="Eurotrash"]saving her is. The girls isn't being objectified. So there's no problem. The whole gender neutrality thing... it is of course fine when it comes to job market, laws, civil rights, stuff like that. But fiction? The survival of our species, of any species, relies on the differences between the genders, the conflicts, the attractions, sex. Would you really want to make EVERYTHING completely gender neutral and sexless? Why? What good could possible come from that? The sexual dynamics between the genders is ALL that keeps our species going. The sexual and violent themes in harmless fiction and games is just an expression of our most basic nature. It stimulates primordial centres in our brains that, one way or another, need stimulating. Thanks to our creative minds, we can use fiction to keep reality safer. This is an absolutely unique and brilliant human ability. To those that complain about the so-called unfairly and unrealistically perfect attributes of women depicted in fiction, I have one word: Darwin. Should not need further explanation.[/quote]