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Beamer wrote on Sep 3, 2024, 11:06:
RedEye9 wrote on Sep 3, 2024, 10:16:
There's always that one guy who continually whines about female characters in video games. It's tiring.


I just rewatched Prey, with my wife this time, who really enjoyed it. And I'm still surprised it didn't get more complaints prior. It's literally about a minority woman who is completely underestimated by men that keep telling her she's just a woman and needs to keep herself to gathering and not hunting, she manages to beat the Predator because it underestimates her and keeps assuming she isn't a threat, and she completely destroys a few evil white men who disrespect her way of living because they also underestimate her.

It's woke as shit, every white person is evil and ignorant, and the whole driving arc for the protagonist is proving that women are just as capable as men. But I didn't see many complaints, maybe I missed them.
I do have two huge complaints, including how the way she finishes it in the end requires vastly more luck than skill, but otherwise? Well made movie and the second best Predator movie (low, low bar.)

Are you really so blind to your own rhetoric that you just burnt the field you plant all your strawmen in? 😂

Prey isn't woke. Nobody complains because the movie is fucking awesome. I'm dancing in the smoke of your burning strawmen as I type this. The protagonist in Prey isn't a "minority woman". The movie takes place in an era where her people were the majority in that area of the world and those evil white men actually were exactly that: evil, white colonists who invaded her land. The era wasn't this multicultural society where people should be judged by the content of their character and not the color of their skin. If that was the case, it would indeed have been weird if the only people being depicted as evil were whites. I'm not even sure it was the message, but let's roll with it: The Predator underestimates her because he landed on a planet in an era where the men were warriors and the female were gatherers.
Prey isn't woke, and that you actually believe that it is proves me right again: you and your ilk have no fucking clue what people mean by woke these days.

That people don't complain about Prey should actually mean something for you, but it doesn't somehow. I'm fucking loving this so much.

As for the other troll: Kay isn't shit because she's a woman. She's shit because she has no soul and is badly written.

PS/EDIT: Also, the fact that the Predator underestimates her "because it assumes she isn't a threat" is precisely why Prey isn't woke. Let me explain: the story doesn't pretend that men and women are inherently the same in terms of physical strength or combat prowess. Instead, it realistically shows that men, due to their physical advantages, were traditionally considered better warriors. If the Predator had treated her as equally dangerous as a male warrior right from the start, that would have been a "woke" writing. What actually happens is far more grounded -- he fails to see her wit, strategy, and determination as a threat, and that oversight leads to his downfall. The movie respects the natural differences while highlighting how those who are underestimated can leverage their unique strengths to win. But apparently, this is too nuanced for you, and you've showed (and played) your losing hand with that comment.

This comment was edited on Sep 3, 2024, 14:09.
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