If you are an avid video gamer, by now have noticed that female protagonists in video games have become uglier and uglier. This disturbing trend is courtesy of woke video game studios who seem to derive pleasure from making their male target audience feel uncomfortable.
One unspoken law of the universe is that people like to be around attractive people.
No matter what walk of life you are in and what type of entertainment you consume, it is no secret that men appreciate women who are feminine and physically attractive. The converse is also true: women appreciate looking at physically attractive, masculine men.
If you are a woman, you instinctively realize this and strive to be beautiful. The real world bears this out as beauty is a $532 billion industry. As a woman, the undeniable truth is that your future has a lot to do with your looks. Attractive women earn on average more than unattractive women. Pretty women have a far better chance of finding a successful husband than ugly women.
It only makes sense that characters in film, TV, print, and video games feature attractive people because businesses understand human nature: people like attractiveness. Therefore it comes as no surprise that corporations who are in the business of making money, use attractive people to help sell their products and services.
This time-tested wisdom has never been controversial, until now.
The Infiltration of Wokeness into the Video Game Industry
For the past 13 years, the video game industry has been under assault by woke interlopers and ideologues. During and after the consumer revolt of Gamergate, many grifting feminists such as Anita Sarkeesian, Zoe Quinn, Brianna Wu, and others used the medium of video games to attack white heterosexual men to launch their careers. In their wake, the video game industry was forever changed to reflect the sensibilities of the mentally ill, feminists, homosexuals, queers, wokesters, and other perverts.
Today, the video game industry is a hotbed of symbolic diversity hires, over-represented leftist radicals, and queer revolutionaries. The chickens of relentless “we need more women (lesbians) in gaming” propaganda are coming home to roost as the beliefs of these developers are making their way into the content of video games. In the past, this was achieved by the inclusion of LGB characters. Today, it’s the defeminization of women.
Aloy: The Poster Child of Uglification
Probably the very best example of this madness is the character of Aloy from Horizon Forbidden West video game. This slovenly, clownish-looking, annoying woman is being touted as a paragon of representation by the usual feminist suspects of various gaming websites.
The Italian version of Vanity Fair felt that her image was so important and triumphant that they featured her on their February 2022 cover:
It turns out that Guerilla Games used actress Hannah Hoekstra as the model for Aloy. It’s hard to believe that they turned a moderately pretty woman into a bull dyke lesbian.
Naturally, Aloy is a lesbian/queer:
There are other lesbian/queers in Horizon Forbidden West:
Meet Diversity Hire Annie Kitan
Introducing Annie Kitan, the stunning and brave Asian mastermind behind this fiasco. Interesting how she looks a lot like an Asian lesbian in the game. Self-insertion for the win!
Here’s what she said about Aloy in the Vanity Fair interview:
“Aloy is not a father or wife, not a spouse or partner, but a strong and courageous woman In a world without gender differences, she uses her weapons to find herself, taking with her all the weaknesses, fears and reservations of the psychological complexity of humanity.”
This is peak Zoomer wokeness and LinkedIn-style virtue-signaling nonsense that is so obviously vacuous and imbecilic, that deconstructing this world salad is pointless. This interview was published in 2022. Now that it is 2023, I doubt she would even dare to define what a woman is today, which makes all of this claptrap null and void.
Given their current trajectory, this is what Aloy will look like in 2024 according to A.I.:
What is really going on here?
I have a few theories as to why this is happening:
Theory 1: Pandering to Alphabetoids and Transgenders
Most men who pretend to be women are hideous and ugly. You can easily tell that they are not women because male factual features are impossible to disguise. The uglification of women in video games is a concerted effort to incrementally shift and then normalize the concept of feminine beauty in the Overton Window to make transgender “females” feel welcome and included. In the process, the people behind this madness get to virtue signal and feel good about themselves.
HeelzbabyFace — who is a balls-to-the-wall outspoken YouTube personality — has released an excellent video that proves my point:
Theory 2: Fat Acceptance and Body Positivity
Many of the new breed of ugly female characters in video games are overweight. Modern Western culture has long considered that overweight people are generally unattractive and undesirable. The fattening of video game women is an attempt to normalize fat acceptance and the body positivity movement. It’s a desperate attempt to make fat, out-of-shape women feel better about themselves.
The video game industry could care less that most women (like men) want to play better versions of themselves in a video game.
Theory 3: The Post-Modernist War on Truth and Beauty
You shall know them by their fruits. Take a look at modern architecture and modern art. It’s easy to see that there is a war on beauty by the forces of modernism. Women were created by God to be intrinsically beautiful to attract men so that men will marry them, settle down and have families. Females of all species are purposely more attractive than males. This is a truism.
The modern left hates God and the universe He created. By defeminizing women and making them brutishly ugly, they are rebelling against God and the natural order of things.
Theory 4: Misandry and the War on Men
Modern feminism is all about hating men. They believe men should not derive any pleasure from looking at beautiful women. Most feminists who believe this are not attractive. There is a preposterous feminist theory called “the male gaze.” It proposes that men only look at attractive women as objects to satisfy their sexual desires and that’s bad, very bad, indeed! Men are not allowed to have sexual desires in this brave new world. I suppose they think that men should walk around with their eyes cast down and speak only when spoken to by women.
God made women complimentary and attractive to men for a reason. Being beautiful gets you noticed. Getting noticed by a man gives you more of a chance of finding a husband, getting married, having children, and fulfilling your God-given purpose in life. Of course, feminists hate this. They would rather pretend they are men and be on the same playing field with regard to recognition of aptitude and skills.
Misandrists want to punish men and deprive them of any semblance of pleasure. Yet women in today’s society can say and do whatever they please with impunity. These vindictive miscreants believe that if all women were to stop trying to be pretty, men would be deprived of the object of their so-called male gaze. I believe that the misandrist’s war on men is a big part of the reason that women in video games have become so ugly of late.
Who is Behind This?
In the culture war, there is one particular type of combatant that is a quisling of the highest order. This breed of “man” is a prime candidate to be both the mastermind and facilitator of this odious practice. He’s usually a senior developer in the video game industry. He proudly calls himself a male feminist.
Pray to God that you will never meet this type of useless coward in a foxhole. This worthless cretin continually simps for women in the hope that they will obtain sexual favors from them. In reality, women secretly despise him. Sadly, this is the kind of man that now dominates the male cohort in the industry. He urinates when sitting down, has pronouns in his bio, and virtue signals as if his life depends on it.
Another likely suspect is the numerous diversity, inclusion, and equity departments that have sprung up like weeds throughout the video game industry. Not content to have meaningless featherbed, remote, no-show jobs, they are busy justifying their employment by devising schemes to get more wokeness into the video games that men play.
A case in point is Blizzard Development lead of Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity Makaiya Brown who has admitted that video games should be changed to reflect the woke DIE agenda:
It is my hope that building a more inclusive workplace and, in turn, more inclusive games, will influence more understanding, care, and appreciation of people who we think are different from us. And if we, as an industry, continue to create better spaces in the gaming world, maybe over time, our real world will become better too.
Not only do they want to change who gets to be hired in the industry, but they also want to transform video games that reflect their neo-Marxist agenda, and somehow believe they have been anointed to “change the world.”
Conclusion
There’s a recent quote from author G. Michael Hopf that helps make sense of where we are in Western civilization:
“Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.”
All of the woke nonsense that has infected popular culture is because of weak men. Without exception, spineless pudgy beta males run every single video game studio and entertainment conglomerate. Instead of being vigilant gatekeepers, these low-testosterone men allowed more women into the locker room, the workplace, and the board room.
There’s a reason that men and women are not allowed to serve in the military side by side. The sexual tension that results erodes and ultimately destroys unit cohesion, morale, and readiness. The same is true of women in the workplace. Civilizations that are foolish enough to allow this madness end up as specks of dirt in the garbage heap of history.
Diversity and inclusion policies eventually destroy workplace culture and transform it into a chilling, unpleasant place where good men must walk on eggshells for fear of being charged with false sexual harassment by diversity-hired female opportunists eager to win millions of dollars in a lawsuit.
The only men that can survive and thrive in this dysfunctional environment are weak, simping, beta males who know how to play the dirty game of office politics. These Teflon-coated eunuchs have traded in their manhood and integrity for power. Most of these fools are either degenerate homosexuals or barely straight males cohabiting with radical feminists who give them their marching orders.
The defeminization and uglification of women, and the overt war on beauty are the latest symptoms of the capture of the entertainment industry by the forces of wokeness and neo-Marxism.
Even though we are at peak Weimar 2.0. There is good news. Although our culture is being destroyed from within, this can not go on indefinitely. Evil can only destroy, it can not create. With nothing left to destroy, evil will die without a host. The tide is turning and the public has had enough of ESG-mandated wokeness. It is only a matter of time before the current diabolical entertainment industrial complex will fall and good will triumph.
–Wolfshead
Where to start… first things first: That “Fable” character presented by Melonie Mac Go Boom (quite a name as well…^^), for a moment I got the impression its in Jagged Alliance 3. I am so glad its in Fable… I am interested in trying Jagged Alliance 3, I have my doubts about it, but that would have doomed it.
I have the first Horizon, Zero Dawn, but only played 2.7 hours. It didn’t “click” with me, and I am quite sure that personality and looks of Aloy had no small part in that. I think I should have liked the game more, but wokeness, even in small doses, seems to rub me the wrong way. This said, one mostly sees her from behind, so…^^
The dev you blurred out, the name indeed doesn’t matter, there are many more at Blizzard right now and across the games industry. I blame Californian woke culture and universities. The leftist touch on universities was already in my time strong, by now it must be utter domination, a major problem for the future.
Interestingly, a telltale of this mindset seems to be a tendency to have an only moderately or unkempt beard. Hmm.
Heroes in movies, books, videogames are larger than life. They represent overcoming obstacles, the hero’s journey, ideals, something to strive for.
Most of us will ever just look average, but we try to look good, and this is a good thing. I am not talking about compulsive disorders like anorexia and things like that.
We need examples to follow. This has positive effects on health and everything. Everyone knows we won’t be able to rival a video game character, but we know that they are just like that.
Things like the Calvin Klein ad are abominations. This is indeed culture war, catering to the needs of losers and mentally ill, it’s okay to be bottom of the barrel… this is harming society. They won’t gain plus size aka fat people wearing their stuff more often. They will just give people an excuse to stay unfit, not to live healthy, to feel like an unique, super special snow flake despite being ugly and terrible.
Satan is laughing…
I also want to speak up against female workplace domination, thank you for pointing this out. From personal experience, you cannot go with a mostly or completely female workforce without making things terrible for men. The office culture suffers and the men thriving in it will indeed be no longer men. One can add females to a staff, I am not in the 100% male workforce camp, but it must be done carefully to avoid conflicts. Diversity hires, quotas, they are actively working against a functional team composition. Just thinking about Blizzard, the old one that created blockbusters: The new hires basically fired and destroyed them. GG…
Diablo IV is unfortunately a success, despite being terrible in many ways, not just thinking about intentional bashing of Christianity and quite some, sorry hundreds, of macro money micro-transactions.
SciFi and Fantasy literature also suffer from this. Lots of female characters instead of a male hero, despite the usual audience being, well, male. But that’s not enough, 90% chance the heroine is lesbian. I am so sick of it. Sometimes its layered on so thick that it cannot be ignored, even if the rest should be palatable. By now I am of the opinion not even to read such stuff via Kindle Unlimited anymore.
Thinking of WoW again, the “Kul Tiran” race, who are nothing but humans, just fat and short… oh well.
@AnonEntity: You make a good point about female domination in the workforce. I’ve recently quit my well-paying job in academia because it’s become way too toxic for men. The only men remaining are those who are extremely mild-mannered or have very few other options.
I’m currently touring around Eastern Europe and am amazed at how ‘normal’ people are here. Men are men and women are women. The women in particular are smart, beautiful and very feminine. Eastern Europeans are very wary about wokeism. They equate it to the Soviet-style propaganda of the Cold War period so are probably better able to detect it than Westerners. My only concern is that many young Eastern Europeans (those who never grew up under Communism) look up to the West and may copy and paste its societal ills into their own culture. The progressive agenda preys on the idealism of youth to carry forth its aims.
You are right about small East European kids brainwashing themselves with Western propaganda.
The older generations are more normal and very hard to change, but younger ones are almost hopeless.
TL;DR: The accessibility of smartphones and internet has succeeded in brainwashing each subsequent generation a little bit more than the previous ones. I see kids walking around town with their nose stuck in their phone, they cross streets without even looking, kids riding electric scooters bigger than they are going full steam ahead looking sideways or backwards…
I grew up in the late 1990s and early 2000s in Eastern Europe and back then there were no smartphones or internet.
Us poor kids had Chinese knockoff NES consoles, rich kids had N64 and PS1 consoles, PCs were only accessible in internet cafes, it wasn’t until 2003-2005 when people began having PCs at home as it was finally more accessible. That’s also when internet usage picked up and from what I remember, people were just playing games online, such as Counter-Strike 1.6, Diablo 2, WoW and others, pirating movies or just socializing through (ICQ, Skype and mIRC). The Western propaganda back then wasn’t big at all, sure, we kids grew up watching stuff like Transformers, Power Rangers, Batman, Spiderman and Voltron (actually Japanese, but nobody knew that), but as we grew up we were able to tell apart what good from the West can be incorporated and what should be completely ignored (the propaganda).
Only a few of my generation have brainwashed themselves with Western propaganda and keep doing it to themselves. My best guess is as many people in Eastern Europe from the 1980s-1990s, they grew up developing some sort of inferiority complex, that they are not in the West, they are not Westerners and especially not Americans and they will never be such and seen or accepted as such, and their delusion began when they tried to incorporate everything Western into their lives, especially the propaganda in hopes to be accepted as “one of THEM”, but the irony is Westerners still look down on people from Eastern Europe and this is where these people’s fault lies in. Instead of being proud of who they are and uphold their traditional values, they end up living a life that is just a lie and deep down they know it, but are too proud to do anything about it, they are in way too deep.
And now younger kids come out of the womb with a smartphone in their hands so they are exposed to this crap from very early age and I think they won’t be able to grow out of it like us previous generations will be able to. Now every kid plays Fortnite, watches TikTok, uses Instagram, cares about likes, I see Instagram handles written in passages around town (probably where these kids hang). The narcissism is so serious with them they need to advertise their profiles to get views, that’s how empty their lives are and how big their holes are.
Every day I see some dumb 12 year old kid that has a broccoli haircut, we don’t even have that many people with natural curly hair (probably 10-15 out of 100) so they have to have their hair being artificially curled.
The sad thing is these dumb kids are just following trends they don’t understand. Back when we were kids, there were no trends to follow, nobody cared about what clothes they wear or what haircut they had, the only ones that did were really vain kids that nobody took seriously.
I’m ashamed of current American culture. There’s nothing redeeming about it whatsoever. The left captured academia in the 1960s and 1970s and we now see the results. All of the evil is coming from tenured professors at colleges and seeping into our culture.
Due to the trillions of dollars of debt, the insane levels of crime, out-of-control immigration, and woke culture, many Americans have already left. We are considering leaving as well and our investigating our options.
The USA are ahead in academical self-destruction and overall wokeness, in terms of immigration, I know a country where the worst of the worst are let in without check, while smart and intelligent people are actively driven away with insane bureaucracy.
Also mentioning an ongoing islamization is “Nazi” stuff and in some cases such statements were brought to court.
I am afraid the counter-reaction to this might swing indeed the pendulum in the direction (“Nazi!”) the left likes so liberally to apply. Making the Nazis look good is quite a feat, isn’t it, Communism manages to do that. What a crazy world!
Man Kicked Out of Gym For Ogling a Woman – One Problem Though…He’s Blind
https://washingtonengager.com/2023/06/blind-man-banned-gym
You can’t make this stuff up anymore…..
The only hope for Western civilization is to embrace a Christian monarchy/theocracy.
Jesus is coming soon to wipe this mess away.
Agreed.
@Wolfshead: Read Nomad Capitalism. I’m not a fan of the book’s written style per se, but the underlying message is good: it’s better to live in a place that welcomes you than one that hates you.
*For some reason I can’t reply to individual posts so have to start a new comment each time.
@Kencathedrus
What do you mean by:
“it’s better to live in a place that welcomes you than one that hates you”?
Because the way I see it the ones that get welcomed now are the woke and everyone who isn’t woke isn’t welcome anymore.
People who are normal and are against woke propaganda are called bigots, idiots, being insulted everywhere, they are being targeted everywhere on western-controlled mainstream websites.
The cultural rot in America is institutionalized and woven into the system. Lookat the insane pride celebrations from the past week where grown men and women were exposing themselves to children. The left captured academia in the late 60s. I don’t think America is fixable at this point.
The American experiment of governance created by the Founding Fathers in 1776 has been gamed by dishonest people. Too many special interests and lobbyists now control politicians. Term limits should have been put in the U.S. Constitution.
Tucker Carlson who is a multi-millionaire can stay and fight and live in armed compounds, but what about normal people?
Look what they did to the Jan 6 protestors.