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Message: [QUOTE="ATenderLad, post: 13684, member: 3864"] I agree with the sentiment, (and none of this is a personal criticism of you, Rageburner) but I want to push back on the example and add a caveat. Duke Nukem *was* a crass, misogynistic title in many respects, and intentionally so. (The most generous thing I can say is that they were going for parody, but without a satirical edge it's just having their stripper cake and eating it too.) Lots of things are made to be retrograde, when placed in context. My most personal example being my beloved James Bond series. I love those movies, but the early films in particular were made during the Swinging 60's, and were absolutely a push back to Women's Lib and the attitudes of the time. One fun example is Bond hates The Beatles, in Goldfinger, while the harshest is probably Bond raping a lesbian till she's straight, in the same movie. I'll quit there, I think I reference movies on this video game website too often as it is. I just want to emphasize that things like feminism and liberation politics weren't invented on Youtube, your parents, grandparents, and all of our ancestors had brains and talked and acted on these things, and we shouldn't pretend they all passively accepted the world around them. Getting older brings the gift of learning that most of the worlds struggles aren't new, it's all been the same fights. [/QUOTE]

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