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| Re: Gender in Halo 2 (response to DanteThePoet) LO | |
| Posted By: DanteThePoet <tinyfallon@gmail.com> | Date: 1/11/07 12:11 p.m. |
In Response To: Re: Gender in Halo 2 (response to DanteThePoet) LO (Jillybean) : The current US military doesn't give their computers bodies, voices, : personalities or breasts either. And if AIs do come around, I doubt : they'll ever be as overtly sexual as Cortana looks. If you want to start : saying that Bungie is only keeping in tune with what the military is like : then be my guest, but I think you're making excuses. There's absolutely no : reason to keep the female marines like that. I'm going to be as blunt as possible. The idea of a feminine warrior is absurd, not just in our culture, but in every culture that exists now and will ever exist through a time of conflict. Being a warrior is a masculine trait, no doubt about it. It requires aggression, anger, hate, and the ability to separate yourself from the pain you inflict. By it's very definition there will never be a "feminine" warrior mid battle, during a time of war. The ability to joke about shopping or eyeshadow while taking life requires a true sociopath, someone who can completely disassociate themselves from their actions. While these behaviors may exhibit themselves in perceivably feminine actions, they have nothing to do with the underlying personality of the character. My paper was more about how the game was not forcibly appealing to the teenage boy market by adding typical "fan service" like large breasts, massive cleavage or an overabundance of sexual innuendo, instead of how the society itself was ran. You make a good point Jilly, Cortana chooses a ridiculously sexual form in which to display herself, but she is not overdrawn by the artists into a "Heavy Metal"-esque form and that is what I tried to point out, how a near balance was struck between the two extremes. The viability of her form is something that no one can actually speculate on though because we don't have a clue what the fuck military life will be like in 500 years. Do you think any of the Greeks had a clue what tanks were? (Save Da Vinci)
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