Her sexuality isn’t presented as something to be celebrated – it’s something that is explicitly punished. All of the choices she makes – how to dress, how to act, who to flirt with and when – are actually being made by her creator, whose only priority is to present Bayonetta as a sexual object that is pleasing to men. Still, some people point to Bayonetta as a character to be celebrated because empowerment! And choice feminism! Bayonetta’s chosen to be this way!īut that ignores the fact that Bayonetta is not real. He also has designed Bayonetta explicitly to appeal to male sexuality, and has no problem equating a woman’s worth with her sexual appeal. In other words, Hideki Kamiya is someone who has zero problems objectifying women, whether in real life or in fiction. So when she gets weak or something, she might just lose her magical power, and if that happens…you know what that means. She has strong magical powers, she’s using her strength, her magical power to keep her hair on her body, to make it form an outfit. That means that she’s actually naked, but naked because that’s just hair, that’s not clothing. So you will be able to see what everybody in the team likes in a girl from the finished project. (1up.com: Bayonetta developer interview)īut anyway that’s how we’re creating Bayonetta’s moves and all that, and that’s actually the most fun part of this game, thinking about all that stuff. Like, when she does a hair attack, you’d see the skin. I strongly feel that women outside should dress like her. (source: Bayonetta dev: to one woman, all other women are enemies) Even women walking by each other will check out what the other is wearing, and might smolder a bit with antagonism. That was my way of expressing the feminine notion that, to one woman, all other women are enemies. Well, if I had to pick one, I would say it is the scene where Joy first appears in the game, with Bayonetta and her impostor getting into a pose battle. Here are just a few things he’s said about Bayonetta in the past: However, it’s very important to remember that even though he opposes #GamerGate, Hideki Kamiya is still very much a misogynist. (And by that I mean that he was harassed by #GG proponents, but certainly not anything comparable to what women like Zoe Quinn and Anita Sarkeesian have faced.) One of the things that made me want to revisit Bayonetta is that her creator, Hideki Kamiya, has actually gained a small amount of notoriety as a game dev opposed to #GamerGate who attracted moderate levels of harassment. Part the first: you can oppose #GamerGate and still be misogynist So first, some thoughts, and then a redraw. But a few things caught my attention recently that made me think it would be worth revisiting. My reaction initially was along the lines of ‘oh well – I feel pretty much everything I said about Bayonetta back then certainly applies to the new game’, so I’d planned on leaving well enough alone. ![]() And they say the feminists are just “looking for things to be offended by”. (Usually that post averages 200-300 direct links per month in October of this year it got 3700+.) Apparently, a bunch of guys on Reddit got really sore that I said nasty things about Bayonetta and hate-read the article so they could talk about how terrible I was. The guys, of course, did not mind and willingly checked all the holes of their girlfriend with their big dicks.Recently, I had a decent-sized traffic spike on my old post about Bayonetta and the male gaze… from three years ago. After drinking alcohol, the guys wanted to have sex, but the busty brunette found a way out of the situation and offered to arrange a threesome right on the floor of the room. ![]() Bayonetta invited the guys to her house to drink a glass of wine. Friends had not seen each other for a long time, so they were glad of an unexpected meeting. However, a male voice called out to the girl, she turned around and saw Link and Pete walking behind her. After defeating her enemies, Bayonetta strolled through the streets of a European city, enjoying the architecture.
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