Don't Be Mean to My Husband
May. 19th, 2020 07:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rynlingI just saw a prominent feminist game critic tweet that she doesn’t understand why people like Bowser, because Bowser is literally Donald Trump. I just kept reading this over and over without understanding.
On one hand, Bowser is literally a giant turtle monster from a series of Japanese video games meant for children.
On the other hand, this is literally a straight woman saying that she doesn’t like an element of gay culture that she doesn’t understand. If I were her PR manager, I might advise her to tone this down.
On my third hand, according to the canonical series lore and the Word of God from Shigeru Miyamoto himself *deep sigh* all of the characters in the Mario games are actors putting on a silly drama for the amusement of the player, which is why they get together for tennis and so on during their days off. Saying that Bowser is literally an evil tyrant is like saying Idris Elba is literally a drug dealer from Baltimore, which is a comically misguided understanding of how fiction works.
On my fourth hand – and I actually have six hands, but I’m using two of them to type this – Donald Trump is literally Donald Trump, and there are better ways to be politically active in advance of the upcoming presidential election than to make angry and self-righteous vaguetweets about gay teenagers drawing fan art of Luigi crushing on Bowser.
On my fifth hand (I’m typing with one hand now, sorry), I really like Twitter’s messaging system and vastly prefer it over Whatsapp and Discord, but I hate the radioactive waste that always seems to be not-so-silently glowing bright neon green in the background.
On one hand, Bowser is literally a giant turtle monster from a series of Japanese video games meant for children.
On the other hand, this is literally a straight woman saying that she doesn’t like an element of gay culture that she doesn’t understand. If I were her PR manager, I might advise her to tone this down.
On my third hand, according to the canonical series lore and the Word of God from Shigeru Miyamoto himself *deep sigh* all of the characters in the Mario games are actors putting on a silly drama for the amusement of the player, which is why they get together for tennis and so on during their days off. Saying that Bowser is literally an evil tyrant is like saying Idris Elba is literally a drug dealer from Baltimore, which is a comically misguided understanding of how fiction works.
On my fourth hand – and I actually have six hands, but I’m using two of them to type this – Donald Trump is literally Donald Trump, and there are better ways to be politically active in advance of the upcoming presidential election than to make angry and self-righteous vaguetweets about gay teenagers drawing fan art of Luigi crushing on Bowser.
On my fifth hand (I’m typing with one hand now, sorry), I really like Twitter’s messaging system and vastly prefer it over Whatsapp and Discord, but I hate the radioactive waste that always seems to be not-so-silently glowing bright neon green in the background.
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Date: 2020-05-19 12:02 pm (UTC)