Primaprimaprima
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Primaprimaprima
15hr ago
Is it that they don't like seeing attractive women in media, or they don't like the idea of MEN seeing attractive women in media?
I think both factor into it.
I suppose it could just be as simple as "I don't want (unworthy autistic) men to be able to view images of attractive women". That would be needlessly vindictive and petty of them though, so out of charity I'm trying to find alternative explanations.
Primaprimaprima
15hr ago
I mean, Final Fantasy X-2 was rated Teen too.
Primaprimaprima
18hr ago
Hypothesis 1: they sincerely prefer this style and cannot understand why anyone would not like it. Maybe it's a learned preference.
I wouldn't call it "learned".
There's a certain brand of woke woman that just genuinely does not enjoy seeing attractive women in media, and they would prefer for them to be unattractive where possible. I believe that this is a genuine, pre-political, pre-reflective reaction on their part (you should generally assume that other people's emotional reactions are genuine as a matter of charity). The question is why they feel this way.
If you ask them, they'll usually say something like "because those sexed up female character designs are objectifying, and I want men to stop objectifying women". But this answer is unsatisfactory for multiple reasons, both because it seems to be based on a mistaken assumption (that there is a mythical type of "authentic" relationship between people that is based on the Intrinsic Properties Of Their Souls rather than what they offer to each other in quantifiable terms), and because the revealed preference of many women (including many wokes!) indicates that they enjoy being "objectified" to a certain extent.
I imagine that the phenomenon is explained at least partially by the general leftist hatred of inequality and competition; it's just being applied to intra-female sexual competition in this case, rather than the more traditional domain of economics. If there are no attractive women, then all women can be equal in their ugliness. If all big budget games/shows/movies were contractually obligated to include at least one billionaire character who was virtuous and heroic and admirable (in the same way that audiences generally expect female characters to be conventionally attractive), and there were any leftists left who still made class analysis their primary focus, then we could imagine such leftists getting similarly frustrated and demanding that media start including more heroic poor people to balance things out.
Primaprimaprima
19hr ago
Rose is literally an attractive young woman with a sort of hot-blooded anime protagonist look
Nah she looks like a dude.
Getting “outraged” over it is silly of course, but the design definitely reads as more “woke” than “conventionally attractive anime design”.
Primaprimaprima
2d ago
And people wonder why so many young men want to cut their dicks off.
At least then they might be seen as human.
Primaprimaprima
3d ago
First off, it was a movement which explicitly selected for people who struggled with naturally, what's the phrase, "overcoming bias" (non-rationalists who do this naturally do it in very fuzzy ways, the classic intelligence/wisdom thing).
Maybe I’ve just been swayed by the Rationalists’ PR campaign, but I’d wager that the average Rationalist is better at overcoming bias than the average human (which is not to say that they’re immune to it, far from it); or at the very least, people who are naturally better at overcoming bias are more likely to be drawn to Rationalism as a hobby or social group.
The average human is very bad at overcoming bias, and the Rationalists are perhaps not much better, but I’d still be inclined to put them on the upper end of the bell curve. The average person just does not think about this stuff at all, so they’re usually just going to unreflectively reify whatever biases they walk in with.
Generally speaking, yes, although there are cases of FTMs who have essentially the same psychology and motivations as MTFs (just, you know, with the genders reversed).
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