Interesting,but the audio is low quality, so it's hard to say.

Seems to me that this cis-gender thing is mainly an excuse to bash men for not being adequately not men.
It was "shut up and sit down"

I had to look up Samus to make sure it was the same Samus that I was thinking of. I'm not even sure how we would know what gender Samus is without reading about it in one of the game manuals. She doesn't look any different than a man would in that armor. Fuck if I know how we would even know she's trans or not.

Seems like a pretty big slam on women if one of the relatively few female protagonists isn't biologically a woman.

Exactly. Its not that she somehow claims someone is trans just from speculation but the fact that she takes ONE out of many argued stories and fixates onto like a crazy idiot and goes into victim mode. She is already spouting anyone who disagrees is transphobic and she still believes that the polygonal model of the characters is more important to game enjoyment from her patreon paying ''minorities'' than actual proper mechanics and easy to understand narrative. Anyone who has any respect for as as anything more than a semi adult human being has my respect.

Nope saying a transwoman and a biological woman are different is transphobia. Never mind that considering women as sex are little more than a guy without their dick is not degrading at all.

From what I could gather from the talk page on the wikipedia, there was a translation problem with the English version that's not in the Japanese version. The Japanese version uses the equivalent of "it" but that's not considered respectful for non-animals and non-objects in English so it wound up being mistranslated to he. Then there's that plot twist later on.

I also find it rather hard to believe that Nintendo would slip a trans character into one of their games at that point. Granted, I don't understand Japanese culture, but I don't think that it was accepted back then to even the extent that it is now. So, it's rather unlikely that they'd have a trans character in any of their games of that vintage.

Even now, I'm not sure they have any trans characters at all.

But, clearly, I'm transphobic for not allowing certain SJWs to redefine the character as trans.

This is so stupid. I mean, Wu is basically shitting on all the lore, retconed and not, created around Samus and the whole Metroid franchise which confirms Samus is a woman, and a pretty much average woman mentality wise. She is never even shown with homosexual tendencies. She is a normal straight woman, and she is even motherly. She might be a genetically modified super human with the skill and training to fight against space pirates, but in the mental aspect she is a normal woman, strong willed and brave, but normal.

That is the problem really. People shouldn't be not questioning something for fear whatever non inclusive result may come out of it. At most her speculation gives as much validity as the other theories. But if its for the greater good; apparently a few mistakes can be tolerated.

Well yeah. How many actual game characters are actually male or female? Do the devs put respective genitals on the models for that? And respective hormone levels in their blood? And why would gender be anything more than a passing thought at the time the game was created? The medium was new and the devs would in all probability want to focus on mechanics since that is what made it different to the other mediums at the time.

Donald duck wears no pants and there's clearly nothing down there. Perhaps we could make him trans. I mean that's a much shorter leap than making Samus into a trans-woman.

Don't get me wrong, it would be nice to have a broader range of characters, but retconning somebody elses work because you're wanting something else is really the domain of fanfic. And not even good fanfic. It was bad enough that they made Watson into a woman for Elementary, but this is ridiculous.

I'm confused with those trying to make Samus to be trans. Wouldn't that literally be saying "she's strong because of her "maleness." ?" aka a "man with boobs". Aren't these the messages that they do not want?

Thank you Sakamoto : https://twitter.com/mombot/status/638918614674833408

I remember a few years ago reading a movie review of the Alien franchise by a feminist movie critic, so I emailed her about her love for masculine characters in the franchise such as Ripley and Vasquez. I know this idea of masculine/feminine behavior co-opting is a big 'bone' of contention in gay-land. I sent some common sense questions as to her position on idealizing the female archetype as a literal interpretation of a masculine stereotype. I mean if a feminist believes in the power and strength of the female design, both physical and metaphysical, then why would so many feminists gush over 'strongly male' type female characters? At best it's a decent facsimile, at worst it's just appropriation and poor imitation.

I'm sure at least a few have countered back with the typical 'but why do strong characters have to be assumed as male?' But that's rhetorical nonsense. Civilization sees it as that. It's a construct... maybe good, maybe bad but it's still an axiom of our human societies. So far in our history, nearly every civilization has been based on power and war, control of people and resources through conquest... MANLY conquest. You may disagree with the nature of it, but it is fact. Arguing for or against something doesn't prove it's still not an assumed fact. Some people don't get that far into the conversation. That's how I leveled my questions to her. A few simple questions of curiosity and subjective interest. I wasn't trying to attack her or troll her. I was sincerely and without condescending, trying to establish a line of dialogue with her to get her elaborate on what I thought was an interesting (if somewhat disagreeable) view on the films.

She never replied back. Some people just aren't interested in sharing knowledge and information. Some people are just interested in giving your their narrative, their dictation on what they believe to be an absolute. Usually when people like that get any kind of power we call them dictators and tyrants. But whether they have dicks or pussies, they all share one thing in common that links us all to what many of us are. ASSHOLES.

Is this still going? O_o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-Q7b-vHY3Q

Talking about "racism" one day in the future we will have a POLITICAL CORRECT FANTASY WORLDS where the DWARVES will be both tall and skinny people, and the elves will have rounded ears (maybe someone will feel offended by point ears) and they will be fat.

Expect the Lanisters of the future to be black, and a new version of HANCOCK with a white character... all makes so much sense... like a Black Nordic God in THOR... even if Elba is the fuc... boss...

You can take the option of making Klingons more smart and cunning, why they have that amazing Spaceships if they are all ¨agressive¨warriors? Show the SMART Klingons... Instead of this... you take vulcans, that suppose to have the blood green... and bring a black Vulcan in Voyager OOOHHH great move!! (that´s why Spock in the old series have that yellow greenish tone in some episodes) but heeeeeeyy vulcans are SMARTTT maybe black people would feel so baaaad for be related to be Klingons... then why you not show instead that Klingons can be smart in their own way? Or just f... create a BLACK based amazingly smart race in STARTREK?

I do not want SUPERMAN to be asian or either SPIDERMAN to be black, the same way I would not like a DJANGO or BRUCE LEE to be white, they are already built characters, I want new BIG heroes from other races or genders... there is actually ZERO respect for the DIFERENCE, is about new-puritans wanted everyone doing the same thing, wearing the same clothes, saying the same mantra BS, like brainwashed robots... this is SJW stuff in it´s purest... anyway if they want to do it, perfect, but later do not complain if people say it sucks...I need to recognize I love the Asian Spiderman using his mechas, but is not Spiderman, is "the asian" Spiderman, the same way Chuck Norris would never be the white Bruce Lee, they tried, and fortunately he became just CHUCK NORRIS, the same way that THE 7 MAGNIFICENT is a great movie, but is just thousands of years light behind KUROSAWA´s THE 7 SAMURAIS.

What is really RACISM in pop culture is bring the "black" version of Spiderman the same way you bring SUPERDOG and SUPERGIRL, as a mere shadow of the original guy, like a "compensation" prize. There are exceptions, of course, like Nick Furia, or Hulka, but that is what they are, exceptions that also make much more sense in the context of the particular fantasy. And if it is not enough example, why we do not have CATMAN? Hey! some SJW would say "women are oppressed doesn't make sense..." so they are so oppressed and few admired even by the SJW, that their original feminine heroes are not even considered to be an example to make a male version... xD ...

DAENERIS needs to be a woman, DJANGO needs to be black, JAMES BOND needs to be white and patriarchal, JUDGE DREDD need to be an obtuse asshole... but yeah you can make it "softer" like the horrible Stallone movie, or just be pure to the character like the last GREAT movie did. RIDDICK was a great character when he was a criminal psychopath turned into a necessary asset when a crisis arisen, much better than we he became a "King of the Space", the same way HAN SOLO shoot first, because he was a bad guy, turned good by love and friendship, the same way DARTH VADER never said NOoOooOoooo in the RETURN OF THE JEDI because he really doubted about the Emperor or his son. SJWs make BAD STORIES, and BAD CHARACTERs, because they just believe in one unique color, one unique gender, one unique everything... do your numbers about what this means...

Heroes need their flaws, later people wonder why series like GAME OF THRONES are good ones, and cheesy family dramas like FALLEN SKIES are considered by people with good taste, a crap.

But do not get confused again about the intentions. They are NOT FREE. This easy way to make new "heroes" with new genders and colors, are far beyond to be a SOCIAL JUSTICE campaign, because is a MARKETING one, a very EASY way to sell "new" heroes, instead of using the brain to create new ones from new races, social classes, genders, etc.

The same way selling ¨gender rights¨ in videogames as long as other ¨pixel rights¨ sic... open the Market to new targets, and money opportunities, it was done with cigarettes before, and it worked pretty well.

Liana K's deconstruction of Anita $arkeesian : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNFLgAQ1Nv8