Nice to see you're still reading all my stuff Gaywood, as I knew you would. Good on you for raising yourself to the effort of pushing the italics button.
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The video makes it seem as if it's "okay" for Agent 47 to kill these women not because they're assassins, but because they turn out to be dressed like prostitutes under their nuns' robes.
That's a mind-bending non-sequitur that lacks even a hint of justification. Killing them
because they look sexy?
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violence against women presented as sexy and fetishised
Fetishised? The violence depicted is straight-forward, and deadly effective, in the style you would expect from a hitman. There is no hint of a fetish in any of the violent interactions.
I imagine this piece really scratches the itch of those trying to find a way of nullifying detractors (or those indifferent to the subject matter) of the trailer critics, however erroneously, but it's also attempting to cast all those with a legitimate opposing view as children who think it's ok to hit women. That's a baseless ad-hominem that equally has no merit, certainly not at least against anything I've been saying. You'd need to show me the quotes of those people who both support the video, and vocally support violence towards women, for that statement to have any application against anyone.
It's not that I'm unable to perceive the existence of the apparent 'problem' here. Merely that the severity of the issue of sexy ladies + violence is being grossly overstated by mindless reactionaries, who seemed to have hooked upon this reasonably bland and uninventive trailer as the manifestation of everything they believe to be wrong with video game advertising.
We can happily have a discussion about how a juxtaposition of sex and violence is a very base and low-witted means of generating interest, and that's a view I'd happily concur with. Some CGI tits and the prospect of killing people would never make me buy a game, because there are hundreds such that I'm not remotely interested in. The key article of objection is that this trailer, taken on its merits, and what it actually displays, is not the reprehensible horror of sexual violence its detractors would have you believe. The content for such a view just doesn't exist except in the minds of those determined to see it. I don't consider this a masterpiece of advertising - actually I consider it relatively dull, but it's absolutely in line with the adverts of other games in the genre.
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Mr Kissyfur wrote:
Pretty much everyone agrees with Gnomes,
really, it's just some are too right on to admit it.