Or the eventual villains of the game, rich billionaire douchebag Devin and FIB douchebag Steven, corrupted by money and power. Take Jimmy De Santa, Michael's son who does nothing but play video games all day and mooch off his father. Really, the characters of Grand Theft Auto are all pretty awful people, no matter their gender.
The game has a terribly negative portrayal of men too. But I think we're missing the other side of the coin here. Yes, overwhelmingly the game has a terribly negative portrayal of women.
So does this make Petit right? Yes and no. Honestly, with 67 out of 69 missions complete, the only "normal" women I've met in the game so far have been the extremely nice wife of a Mexican cartel leader who I had to meet when I kidnapped her as Trevor, or a random Indian woman whose purse I retrieved from a mugger as Franklin, who wrote me a nice email a week later and delivered a suit from her family's clothing company to my house. And of course there's the funhouse full of strippers you can ogle as any of the three male leads, and if you're charming enough, you can actually take them home. And there's his daughter, tramp-stamped and permanently in a revealing one-piece, obsessed with nothing but making it big on the reality show "Shame or Fame."Īs time goes on you continue meeting psychotic women, like Mary-Ann, the fitness-addicted side-quest giver who you race as all three characters while she laments being 39 and childless. There's his wife, an ex-stripper who does literally nothing but scream at him every time she's onscreen, and cheats on him frequently off-screen. The ladies in the life of Michael, the retired bank robber, aren't much better. There's also Franklin's aunt who goes on powerwalks with other middle-aged women where they run and chant "I am woman, hear me roar!" The implication seems to be for the player to think "Hah, look how silly women are when they think they're empowered!" As errand boy gangster Franklin you quickly meet Tonya, a crackhead who offers you sexual services to cover for her boyfriend by towing cars (services which you don't accept). Things weren't looking good right off the bat. Expecting to see some not-so-nice characterizations of women going into the game, I started keeping a tally of all the female characters I came across. Rather, I want to discuss the points Petit actually made in her review.
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