Journal of Other Forum Analysis (Volume II, Issue 1)

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-are-some-recent-prominent-games-with-female-protagonists-that-youd-recommend.1074177/#post-133839807

User banned (permanent): concern trolling, history of severe infractions

...Gender neutral? NGL this reads like a dog whistle about woke characters.

Also, WTF is wrong with "full armour"? If the game is about combat, of course I'd want the female protagonist to wear armour instead of a pretty dress...

I don't know what you are talking about. I thought I made myself pretty clear. Western videogames are ashamed of letting girls be girls. You talk about combat, but how come almost every prominant western game with female protagonist always has to be about combat? (The only one that isn't is The Sims, and it's the most popular game among female players). Maybe girls have other interests beside slaying monsters? Maybe some of the those interests are different from what boys usually like? Or maybe even when slaying monsters, some girls prefer to look pretty while doing it? I know a lot of female players who play all sorts of videogames that don't care about realism as much as you do. I think a lot of western videogames with female protagonists are not made by women, and not targeting women. They are made by men who project their own interests onto women, and they pat themselves in the back for having female representation, even though they fail to actually attract female players to their game.