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“The Legend of Zelda” is classist, sexist and racist: Game takes dim view of workers, women..
Salon ^ | October 5, 2013 | Jon Hochschartner

Posted on 10/06/2013 12:00:19 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: Sherman Logan

You’re absolutely right. This is a game, a FANTASY game. In the real world, women wouldn’t last long without male protection. Can you imagine most women going toe to toe in a sword fight with a man? There were very, very good reasons why men fought the wars and women stayed home to raise children. Sadly, men are simply more expendable than women, that is if you want to actually survive as a tribe, a village, or a country. Plus, women dying in droves on the battlefield wouldn’t have likely changed the outcomes much.

It’s entertaining to see a 105 lb woman take down a 230 lb man a la Lara Croft (if it wasn’t, then they wouldn’t make movies like that). I don’t doubt that woman are in fact better than men at many things, but man and woman complement each other. They aren’t really meant to be rivals in the first place. We go well together in more ways than one, and that’s the natural order of things.


41 posted on 10/06/2013 6:30:14 PM PDT by CitizenUSA (Conservatives are not anarchists!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It’s Salon...


42 posted on 10/06/2013 6:34:40 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
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To: Antihero101607

Not to Bill Clinton is a cigar a cigar!! Ask Monica.


43 posted on 10/06/2013 7:15:13 PM PDT by mfish13 (ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES!!!!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Betcha there are college courses out there (for Fill-In-the-Blank Studies courses) where this type of horsecrap is spewed - and someone is paying 500 smackers a credit hour for their Little Precious to take it.


44 posted on 10/06/2013 7:35:11 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
That's why I read Salon. It's like a car wreck you can't keep your eyes off of. Anyhow, this is the video game I'm addicted to. Don't know if I'm fighting patriarchy, bolshevism or the hitlerite invader, but it's fun!
45 posted on 10/08/2013 7:33:02 AM PDT by steelhead_trout (MYOB)
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To: steelhead_trout

The plane on the box isn’t an IL-2. The one on the yellow border is though.


46 posted on 10/08/2013 7:34:54 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

Oh, I know. It’s a survey sim. The Soviet bird is a lend-lease Hurricane. You can fly any number of different aircraft depending upon what side you fly for.


47 posted on 10/08/2013 7:41:17 AM PDT by steelhead_trout (MYOB)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It’s a game.

Socialists and Fascists hate fun.


48 posted on 10/08/2013 7:42:19 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (I will not comply.)
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To: miliantnutcase

Ocarina... wasn’t that some popular Latin dance for a while?


49 posted on 10/08/2013 7:44:00 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Tomb Raider is much more progressive. It has a large-breasted woman as an assertive heroine. And that’s always good. :)


50 posted on 10/08/2013 7:59:03 AM PDT by steelhead_trout (MYOB)
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To: steelhead_trout

Even her boobs aren’t as big as the one who wrote this article.


51 posted on 10/08/2013 8:03:07 AM PDT by JediJones (The #1 Must-see Filibuster of the Year: TEXAS TED AND THE CONSERVATIVE CRUZ-ADE)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

??

How does a game take a view?

Isn’t it based, loosely, on medieval times?


52 posted on 10/08/2013 8:04:30 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: MrB

lol macarena ;-)


53 posted on 10/08/2013 9:18:59 AM PDT by miliantnutcase
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To: Charles Martel

I haven’t heard that title (Leisure Suit Larry) in years. Silliness at its apex.


54 posted on 10/08/2013 9:31:42 AM PDT by mikemoose (Pray for the Unborn)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Wind Waker....Nintendo did a great job remastering this game...weeks of enjoyment so far.


55 posted on 10/08/2013 9:33:01 AM PDT by mikemoose (Pray for the Unborn)
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To: Billthedrill

Come and witness the violence in the system!!!


56 posted on 10/08/2013 9:34:11 AM PDT by mikemoose (Pray for the Unborn)
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To: mikemoose
Larry has returned (to mixed reviews). Looks like simple, silly fun... but not sufficiently complex for today's gamers.
57 posted on 10/08/2013 9:48:48 AM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: mikemoose

Yeah I already ordered it for the Wii U should be coming any day now, and the price isnt bad either considering its a Zelda game


58 posted on 10/08/2013 10:24:16 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: mikemoose

“I’m being repressed! I’m being repressed!”


59 posted on 10/08/2013 10:48:49 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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