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gentle-hero-blog · 2 months

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Actually wait ok i'm not done. i'm actually so serious abt this. I think that a large part of the reason i got attached to metroid when i was younger is because it was the first media i discovered where the main female character was allowed to look like this:

and like. people thought she was cool. BOYS thought she was cool and I had never seen boys think a female character was cool before, much less want to be like one. she had all these interesting traits that I had only ever seen in male characters (person of few words, calm and ruthless bounty hunter persona, highly respected for skill, her appearance isn't mentioned Ever, etc etc). and that was formative for me and my relationship to gender i think

#metroid #talkin #sorry to explain it in such “boys vs girls” terms lmao it's just. this was my experience #also probably a big reason i get so squicked out by zero suit portrayals #because like. that cool trope subversion gets stripped (lol) away #and it's like “noooooo look she really is just another hot female character underneath!! she's a Woman guys!!!!!”#and it's weirddddddd it's so weird. not Wrong in any way just really really not my thing #i saw boys stop wanting to BE her once the suit came off #anyway. TIME FOR THE DAILY METROID RAMBLE

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