Posted on 07/06/2025 7:58:50 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The players in the live-action Revenge on Gold Diggers are male protagonists lured into relationships by manipulative women who are after their money - how the man responds shapes the rest of the story.
It topped the gaming platform Steam's sales list within hours of its release in June but controversy quickly followed. Some slammed it for reinforcing insulting gender stereotypes, while supporters say the game cautions people about love scams.
So heated was the criticism that the game's creators quietly renamed it Emotional Anti-Fraud Simulator the next day.
But that wasn't enough to undo the damage. The game's lead director, Hong Kong filmmaker Mark Hu, has now been banned on several Chinese social media platforms.
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A newspaper from the central Hubei province said the game was "labelling an entire gender as fraudsters".
But Beijing Youth Daily praised it for its "creativity", citing the financial impact of love scams: around 2bn yuan ($279m; £204m) in 2023, according to data from the National Anti-Fraud Centre.
[S]ales of the game have continued to soar. It is now among China's top ten titles for the PC platform, surpassing even Black Myth: Wukong which is reportedly the most successful Chinese game of all time.
Some people online have suggested the game is inspired by the real-life story of a Chinese man, known as Fat Cat on the internet, who jumped to his death last year after a breakup.
His death sparked an intense discussion online, where the term "gold digger" was liberally used, with some accusing his ex-girlfriend of exploiting him, leading him to take his life...
Women who spoke to the BBC worry that the video game perpetuates problematic gender norms in China, where society believes women belong at home, while seeing men as the primary breadwinners. [BBC finds normal "problematic"]
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
I vaguely recall that book
Cultures that cannot pivot.. die.
Polygyny makes biological sense.
Polyandry is biologically insane.
That's why.
Not when there are not enough women. One woman can have a child with each of them. The children can be brought up in greater wealth
And the next generation will be move sex equivalent.
LOL!
Human history is replete with examples.
Oh, wait.
It’s not.
And Robert Heinlein was a perv.
Rod Stewart Quotes:
Instead of getting married again, I’m going to find a woman I don’t like and just give her a house.
I thought the slit-eyed lady knocked him off his feet.
And he was glad he found her.
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