But this really isn't what's going on.
We're not facing something as benign as different interpretations of beauty, like the long necks of African women in certain tribes, or other typical multicultural examples. In those cases, the local definition of beauty still has a firm, positive basis in the expectations of that gender, role, age group, etc within their culture. The various adornments still fit within a paradigm of promoting a harmonious integration into your distinct given (sexed, etc) body and role.
Today, we're seeing something completely different, and driven entirely by a negative inversion. Plastering perverse men--like Dylan Mulvaney in his poorly expressed comic drag--all over different products and spaces has nothing to do with any positive harmonization between the person, their body, and their position within the broader social order. Instead, what is being directly and openly fetishized is the inversion itself--the more extreme the better. Turning a man into a cartoon drag parody is desired as empowering on some other level, as a destruction of order and traditional beauty.
We don't have to put up with that. It's a kind of terrorism against the human soul and against beauty itself. And it should be recognized as such; there are no compromises where you allow this kind of thing to enter your schools, culture, etc without always openly calling it for what it is and refusing to play along.
. This is how strong female women should be portrayed in video games. Strong, independent, doing what they like, but also just being a feminine female. Normal stuff really.
