#yall wont even play around with sadies dutch parallels idk why im pretending like this fandom cares about the women at all

[tossball-stick]

"can we talk about how [male character]'s death is so gruesome purely for shock value??" they had sadie adler coming fresh from being imprisoned and having her husband murdered, gets threatened by micah, and then he burns her house down. they had katherine braithwait get shot and dragged around by the hair forced to watch her whole family murdered, screaming and crying the entire time its happening, and left on a shot of her crawling back to her burning house because they refuse to even kill her. they had molly o'shea abused and neglected leaving her crying and miserable the entire duration of canon only to come crawling to death with open arms, yet she isnt even allowed the death she wants, and is instantly willfully forgotten about by everyone but the women. they had susan grimshaw desperate to defend the one thing she had left and she was shot in the side and left to bleed out as we hear her cries. they had abigail crying and begging john not to leave while he and sadie and charles ripped her husband away from her just as she got him back. they had bonnie mcfarlane abused tortured and nearly hanged for daring to help an idiot who wanted to get himself killed. they had luisa fortuna lose her entire family and then die for a man that doesnt even remember her name. for all of rdr1 you are witnessing nonstop horrors and abuse of almost exclusively women. there is a constant fixation and obsession with misogynistic suffering and anguish in these games, whether you believe it to be handled well in either one or not. when men die, it is typically swift. we see the death itself, the camera even flicking away while men die in some scenes. yet every womans death (literal or metaphorical) or anguish seems to be stuck adhering to a misery quota, where we must watch them suffer before they are allowed to pass. we must watch them scream and cry and beg for it to be over or for something to save them beforehand. and then we must watch the act itself as well.

personally i think they couldve done a lot worse with mens death scenes. really.