I say "Happy Holidays" a lot, but I'm specifically referring to the entire Thanksgiving-New Year's season. It was always a lot more convenient, in my mind, than changing up to a new holiday so quickly. Sometimes I'll let a "Merry Christmas" tumble out if I'm feeling particularly Kringlesy, but none of my wish-wells are intended to be political x.x;
Whenever I see this mentioned, the Pro-PC Overlord crowd always calls it "Internalized Misogyny." Same with the point about Japanese Female Empowerment differing from American Female Empowerment. So I don't think it's so much that people aren't learning that these characters are created for/by women, it's just that they aren't accepting of the intentions behind the character because they don't conform to their specific, narrow idea of an empowered lady.
(12-02-2015, 09:45 PM)Dolphman Wrote: It should be noted that Bayonetta was created by a woman. People seem to never learn that.
Whenever I see this mentioned, the Pro-PC Overlord crowd always calls it "Internalized Misogyny." Same with the point about Japanese Female Empowerment differing from American Female Empowerment. So I don't think it's so much that people aren't learning that these characters are created for/by women, it's just that they aren't accepting of the intentions behind the character because they don't conform to their specific, narrow idea of an empowered lady.