[iup=3571995]Ironhide[/iup] wrote:That article is terrible, The Metal Gear series is male dominant due to the fact that the military tends to have far more men than women.
There's actually several strong female characters in MGS, Sniper Wolf, Meryl, Boss and Olga all spring to mind.
The article puts forward arguments as to why all of your above examples are to a degree terrible female characters. You see there are actual strong characters and then are are characters who masquerade as being strong through the use of masculinity. Many of the female characters in the Metal Gear games fall into the latter.
Instead of calling the article terrible, put forward an argument, why are Sniper Wolf and Meryl strong characters? Your point about the military being male dominated is completely irrelevant, this isn't an argument that can be won with basic mathematics.
With Sniper Wolf you have a character who is a specialist at waiting because according to Metal Gear Solid women are more patient than men, to add to that Wolf's entire character is that she becomes obsessed with the men she fights, obsessed with Snake and that her only reason for living was so she could find the man who could finally kill her.
With Meryl you have a character who's entire arc boils down to how she cannot escape the fact she is a woman no matter how masculine she tries to be. Her entire narrative revolves around her failed attempts at masculinity. The game takes every chance it gets to denounce her sexuality, she can't properly disguise herself as a guard, why? Because her cute girl butt gives her away. Snake constantly talks her down for being a woman, he tries to make her trade her Desert Eagle with his smaller gun because according to Snake the gun is too big for a girl. To add to that her entire reason for being in the plot revolves around men, she joined the military because she wanted to be like the father she never had or knew, her motivation for being revolves around the influence of men, she is a character who is entirely reliant on men and her own attempts to be masculine.
Meryl is such an incredibly poor character that it can't be done full justice in a single paragraph.
