Let’s deal with the elephant in the room. Not everyone agrees that Grand Theft Auto is misogynistic. It’s an odd case of seeing misogyny in a game and knowing it’s misogyny but saying it doesn’t matter because the whole game is satire and satire isn’t offensive. I get it, I know what satire is, and I also know that Grand Theft Auto is interested in representing people’s darkest natures.
Grand Theft Auto treats everyone like shit without mercy. However, when GTA 5 reviews were first published, fans attacked reviewers for their displeasure with misogynistic themes and torture scenes. Some of the female reviewers in particular took the brunt of it, and as a result they received the very misogynistic abuse they criticized in-game from big fans of the game, which turned things around. rice field.
About satire can be found here. If that’s what’s happening in real life, it’s not very good. Also, the way fan reviewers were treated (many of which still scored very highly) was close to how men and women were treated in-game. Grand Theft Auto 5 hasn’t been played in years since she first played it on her Xbox 360 when she was 17, but her feminist baby brain made sense of what was presented. I remember having a hard time doing it. I understood that what I was watching was satire, but it was still very offensive. I remember the times when men mocked me and objectified me, and now that it’s been ported straight into video games, what’s funny, and who was this satire designed to ridicule? I wondered if The women in these games didn’t really do anything and weren’t important to the story. Just there to be ripped off. When women are treated like this in the game, it just felt too bad that a man who treated a woman badly would be given a full character arc and even given a shot at making amends. rice field.
A lot of people talk and discuss GTA 5’s misogyny, but I’m not interested in delving into it. My question is, is this still alive and is Take-Two willing to take the risk? We live in a time when huge series like The Last of Us and Horizon are led not just by women, but by women who date women, and they still make a ton of money. is earning Some of the world’s most popular media outlets are criticizing the wealthy and upper class, and they are criticizing them in thoughtful ways without bashing them down. There’s room for uncompromisingly satirizing the misogynistic behavior of male trolls whose hobby is sending out hate for women on the Internet. The world was much more tolerant of this when the last game was released ten years before him. Not so much now.
We all know that the world is more polarized now and that video games need to be more sensitive to lighting. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the main character this time is a woman. For the first time in the world of Grand Theft Auto, this gives women real autonomy, rather than cheaters and sex workers who can be run over by cars. I believe that Grand Theft Auto 6 might not be as hating on women as its predecessor simply because it allows you to see the world through women’s eyes, incredibly. This empowers women to tell jokes without always being the star of the joke. These games have caricatured women through men’s eyes, but we may finally be able to see men through women’s eyes.
I don’t want to spend money on this. I have no faith in companies adhering to ethical principles. Not to mention progressive values. Grand Theft Auto 6 is one of the most anticipated games right now, and there’s been some speculation that it could be released next year, in particular. Regardless of how you treat NPCs, it will make a lot of money. I expect it to deliver the biting social satire, the excellent gameplay this game is known for, and finally, the all-too-no sarcasm female characters, but I’m not holding my breath . After all, misogyny makes money.