By: Nonya Business

In reply to Alecia.

The reason the ” male hero gets the often-more-dangerous dude bad guy” is because he can’t get a female bad guy of the same caliber. The reason behind that is listed right here in the article and from a lot of responses from women on here – it’s just unfathomable to have male characters defending themselves from, or killing to defend others from, or deliver justice to, even the most evil female characters. Ever notice how in most games the ultra-evil female bad guys get their justice by being knocked out? If they do die, it’s almost never directly at the hands of the protagonist (especially doing it yourself, it’s almost always in a cut-scene). They get blown up, or fall down a cliff, or something else where there’s no actual brutal violence like you see used against just about every video game character that possesses a Y-chromosome.

It’s because many women are very comfortable with inflicting violence on men, but conversely feel that women should never suffer physical consequences of inflicting evil on other humans.

If you want female characters to get to fight the more-often-dangers dude bad guys, you’re going to have to start talking to women and let male characters actually defend themselves, or save the day, from evil women without getting media flack and fallout and having to feel bad about equality.