{"id":2281,"date":"2012-06-12T17:53:28","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T23:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=2281"},"modified":"2014-09-12T11:48:15","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T17:48:15","slug":"youll-want-to-protect-the-new-less-curvy-lara-croft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2012\/06\/12\/youll-want-to-protect-the-new-less-curvy-lara-croft\/","title":{"rendered":"You’ll ‘Want To Protect’ The New, Less Curvy Lara Croft"},"content":{"rendered":"Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

You’ll ‘Want To Protect’ The New, Less Curvy Lara Croft<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Really? REALLY?!?!<\/p>\n

So, I have to ask, who buys this shit? And I don’t care how good the interaction, graphics, or audio.<\/p>\n

How can you claim brownie points for making Lara less curvacious when your big selling point is there’s an attempted rape scene?
\nI know developers claim they are only making it because it sells, and I’m sure it will. That’s one of the lamest excuses there is, right up there with “I was only following orders.”
\nCensorship is not the answer, but how does the industry ever hope to get any respect when it pulls shit like this?<\/p>\n

“The ability to see her as a human is even more enticing to me than the more sexualized version of yesteryear,” he said. “She literally goes from zero to hero… we’re sort of building her up and just when she gets confident, we break her down again.”<\/p>\n

In the new Tomb Raider, Lara Croft will suffer. Her best friend will be kidnapped. She’ll get taken prisoner by island scavengers. And then, Rosenberg says, those scavengers will try to rape her.”<\/p>\n

“She is literally turned into a cornered animal,” Rosenberg said. “It’s a huge step in her evolution: she’s forced to either fight back or die.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

One of the commenters of the article says, (warning, language…)<\/p>\n

So things she’s going to go through that no man will go through or face those ‘challenges’ are and seemingly ONLY include ‘rape’ because fuck all, that’s how women get character ladies in gentlemen, she has to be raped or attempted raped etc…no way in holy FUCKING hell is she going to gain that development through any other FUCKING means from being shot at, punched, attacked, survive a plane crash, betrayal, set on fire…nope, rape. Perfect, that’s the ‘Go to’ for female development to make her ‘Harder and badass.’<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I tend to agree. I sure hope one of Lara’s weapons is a burdizzo<\/a>. That would be highly appropriate.
\nI have no intention of playing the game to see for myself.<\/p>\n

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