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Resident Evil 5: Capcom rids racism, gains sexism

June 02, 2008 in Blog comments 18

In the new 'partner' trailer for Resident Evil 5 there are now plenty of white people wandering around Africa, instead of only black people. Also, Capcom has now given Chris a partner and guess what? She's black. Seems Capcom has visibly fixed their racism problem.
But wait! Let's fast forward to the last comment... 'No worries, my last partner was a woman too.' Uh-oh, are women going to jump at this acclaimed 'sexist' comment? Apparently, feministgamers.com doesn't believe it's sexist but believe that there are still racist issues in there.
There's more. Abuse of animals? Well, we do see dogs getting slaughtered so we'd better call up PETA.

Dear feminist gamers, did Capcom just trade racism for sexism? Well, according to feministgamers.com the "girl-power" exchange at the end did little to dissuade her/them from still believing that this is a racist game through and through. Funny, it's so hard for me to understand who is supposed to get pissed off by what these days. Apparently I suck at ranking sexist and racist commentary. I'm going to get stuck doing more sensitivity training so I too can pretend to live in a world where everyone and everything is somehow oppressive to something. The one thing I have definitely learned is that at the root of every problem in the world is white men, that much is solid fact.
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  • 2
    Synergized Jun 3, 08
    If people seriously have problems with this, they need to get over it.

    People of all races die. Dogs die. Shit happens.

    I do, however, find it funny how Capcom jumps to all the complaints to fix it.
  • 0
    Miss Razz Jun 3, 08
    If any woman finds sexism in Reident Evil then they should be shot in the face. XD. (not literally, obviously)

    Resident Evil is one of the few series that has female protagonists who serve more purpose than just looking pretty and flailing around waiting for men to save them. If anything, feminists should be extatic at these portrayals of "tough" women.

    As for killing dogs ... Zombie dogs have always been enemies in the series. I don't see why that issue would be brought up now.
  • 0
    Storm Jun 3, 08
    People clearly haven't done their homework with this game. Does the number '5' in it's title mean anything? It's not just there for show, it's the title's fifth game. Wow.

    I don't mean to think violently with this situation, but I agree with GG. A woman finding RE to be sexist should be shot in the face.
    • 0
      Donnelly Jun 3, 08
      Maybe they think it's like Star Wars.
  • 1
    iLLmatic Jun 3, 08
    So because there are a couple other people seen in the trailer, this ends all the racism talk? lol I'm not one of the people shouting racism, but this argument doesn't resolve a thing. Its like people who say, "I'm not racist, one of my friends is black!"
    • 1
      Synergized Jun 3, 08
      Reminds me of an epic quote from Crick.

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      I'm not racist, I have a colour TV!
  • 0
    Jesus Jun 3, 08
    Sexism? Pointing out a plain fact is hardly sexist.

    Thats like saying "That's my uncle over there" and being called sexist. I don't think that people are offended by it at all though, I think it is more that people think other people might be offended by it, and therefore call it racist and sexist and all the rest of it.
  • 0
    theundertakergonzo Jun 3, 08
    Oh god. This game is being targeted for anything they can imagine. It's next to rediculous i mean c'mon it's going to be a good game why point all this crap at it. Just get over it. I may be male but i don't see how you can find "sexism" in it.
  • 0
    Onvacation Jun 3, 08
    This series is clearly more racist to Zombies then other catigory, Don't see anyone moaning about that >>
    • 0
      theundertakergonzo Jun 3, 08
      No one complained when the zombies we faced we're a bunch of white based people.
      • 0
        Onvacation Jun 3, 08
        Thats because white people typically do not whinge about racism compared to other races
        • 0
          Jesus Jun 5, 08
          I disagree. I think white people say that the *insert race here* might feel discriminated against if bla bla bla.. BUT usually the *race* wouldn't even have cared if no one had said anything.
        • 0
          Miss Razz Jun 5, 08
          I agree. Most of the people complaining about the racism issue seem to be white people who think it might be racist against black people.

          As far as i know, the only black guy who complained about the RE5 trailer was this guy - and he wasn't complaining about the game itself being racist, just that anyone who wasn't familiar with the series might get the wrong impression from the trailer.
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    BANDITO ATTACK Jun 3, 08
    whenever you put the white man and the black man in the same setting, its racist. it's never PERFECTLY BALANCED WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU RACISTTTTTT

    who gives a *bleep* about sexism.
    • 0
      Final Blade Jun 5, 08
      I never understood why though, its not like they're choosing one. Either way your comment is great and I agree. Thumbs up for ya.
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    Deathsythe Jun 3, 08
    I hope they release a directors cut version without all of these stupid changes just to appease the politically correct *bleep*s who "review" games.

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    Jaw Knee Jun 4, 08
    Feminist gamers can *bleep* off.
    • 0
      Miss Razz Jun 5, 08
      Feminists don't actually play the games. They just see a bunch of pictures and screenshots then bitch about how sexist they are, rather than playing the gamesto find out the facts.

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