What things (big or little) did each of you find in the story and overview that were negative towards women, please?
(I do not like anything derogatory against anyone
--there are many games here I won't touch--but my interest is piqued because I
have lived in remote villages among many different peoples and cultures, under various religious-political circumstances, and I wish to know how the women in the game are portrayed.)
Here is just an example from the first dialogues in the game:
This is how the main character (in truth, she's not the only one for whom we make "deicisions", it's not even properly a "female protagonist" game) is presented: "Allison is a modest, well mannered 19y old girl (...) she always tried to (...) keep herself pure, for the sake of any gentleman, who is willing to marry her and provide the security, until death do them part."
(...)
The mother speaking to her daughter Allison, who is depressed because she's bullied at school for being a prude: "(...) good people will be always oppressed but (...) you will meet a caring man soon and you will forget the wrongdoers in an instance."
(...)
Allison: "Why do I need to be the only girl without male attention?! Why is every girl from the school already engaged or married?! (...)"
(...)
The mother trying to make her daughter smile: "You'll see, soon you'll be super busy raising my grandchildren."
Allison: "How can you be so sure about that, mom?"
Mother: "Because YOU deserve it! YOU, will have a caring husband and YOU will live a life full of joy!"
Allison: "(...) I will be waiting patiently, mom, I promise. (...)"
Mother: "Darling, you won't fail. You're a beautiful and modest young lady. (...)
The setting is contemporary (they talk about the Gulf war in Iraq and say it was five years before... I don't know which Gulf war they are referring to, but even if it is the first one [1990-1991] we are in the Nineties of the 20th century), but women are described as half witted people that are to be complete and happy only in marriage and being with a man, their only desire and aspiration is to marry a man. That's some seriously derogatory backward vision on women.
And that's only the beginning. Then the part described by
nielsen145 starts, where the rapey mentality of two males is presented. But I found that less surprising/concerning, that's a given in at least half of these games...
