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Two former Polygon editors say they are launching Mothership, a new game publication, on January 26, to analyze games through the lens of gender and identity (www.gamedeveloper.com)
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[–] angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com 2 points 2 days ago

I really don't think that the prude left is as un-prevalent as this comment wants to portray. They get what they want quite a bit in the UK and Australia (often by finding allies with the prude right tbf,) and even outside of that, they're not particularly hard to find, and perception matters. And to someone with no strong political convictions, they could easily see a ton of leftists advocating censorship of some boobs in some game and take that at face value as "leftists are prudes." I can't even say it's unjustified, Trump has tons of policies that I was told not to worry about because they were fringe. They're more serious than boobs in video games, but the principle still applies.

And to be honest, I really do think a visible amount of people on the left really are uncomfortable with depictions of sexuality and even just romance appealing to straight men. It's like, a sizeable amount of people on the left have this strong fear of anything giving men "unrealistic expectations." And sometimes it's not ecchi booby gags, sometimes it's shit like "women having common interests with you," as if not being heteropessimistic is now misogynistic.