Okay, I didn't want to talk about society's gender roles nonsense, I wanted to keep my previous posts mostly about Disney, but seeing all these people talking about how inappropriate etc cross-dressing in this game is, I couldn't keep this post strictly Disney and had to rant a bit. I apologize, I know it's long. You don't have to read it, I don't care, I just needed to rant.
Honestly, I just don't understand how people can watch Up, Mulan, and The Incredibles with their kids/as kids, and see blood (when Carl hits the construction worker on the head with his cane, when Mulan is attacked by Shan-Yu before causing the avalanche and later is shown to be bleeding, and when Mr Incredible is fighting the first Omnidroid he fought his arm is cut) or when in The Incredibles the guy attempts suicide, and when Bomb-Voyage attempts to murder a child with a bomb, or parents take their kids to Disneyland and go on the Haunted Mansion which is filled with dead people (some of which are murderous) or watch Disney movies with an abundance of cross-dressing characters and inappropriate jokes, watch Disney movies where the villains die horrible, gruesome deaths, watch Hunchback of Notre Dame and Who Framed Roger Rabbit which are really not very kid-friendly Disney movies in general, or allow their kids to play violent
Disney games like PotCO and ToonTown (which are only recently closed), and finally play VMK where you can sit on and teleport through coffins and have a room with a grave dug in it and hear gunshots in the background, and ALL of this is perfectly fine, no one bats an eye or sees any problem, but the moment a male character in an ex-Disney game wants to wear a skirt, that's just taking it way too far.
Violence and death are normal in our culture, no one sees any problem with them and our children are raised on them. Apparently kids are perfectly capable of understanding those, but we mustn't dare teach our delicate seedlings that a boy can wear a skirt, how terribly inappropriate! Even though it's much more difficult to explain to a child that it's okay for girls to wear dresses and makeup and have long hair and like pink, but not get dirty or be rough or play "manly" sports like football and wrestling (unless it's sexualized, of course, then it's a-okay) And then just the opposite for boys, to wear a dress or skirt is the worst thing you could ever do, don't you dare play with mommie's make-up, no you can't like pink that's a girl's color, you're not allowed to have long hair that's inappropriate! Go play rough with the other boys out in the mud, what, you got hurt? Well don't cry about it you sissy! It's happy family fun to watch wholesome Disney movies together and see Clayton from Tarzan be strangled by a vine and listen to his neck snap and see body dangle above the ground, but good heavens, get that nail polish off your fingers right now, Little Joey!
Maybe it would be easier to teach ALL kids that's it's fine to wear a dress if you want, but if you'd rather wear pants, go ahead. Is pink Little Brandon's favorite color? Great! Let's paint his whole room pink! Little Lily wants to sign up for the kid's football team? Of course she can! How about we stop trying to enforce these ridiculous gender roles, and realize that there are so many things in our society that are far more damaging to kids than whether or not a boy is wearing a skirt. No wonder violence and crime rates in the U.S. are so high, we glorify violence and raise our children on it, but people are more worried about if someone is cross-dressing or not to realize it. People say that it isn't normal for a man to wear women's clothes, but guess what else isn't natural? Clothes! Make-up, football, jewelry, none of this is natural. None of this is right or wrong for one sex but not the other. None of this has any effect on us apart from how we appear. If a guy wants to be pretty and sparkly, why not? If a woman wants to be muscly and not shave and play rough sports in the mud, let her!
No, VMK isn't the place to be learning how messed up our society is, but that doesn't mean we have to perpetuate harmful gender roles, we should just let people wear what they want. None of the clothes in VMK are revealing or inappropriate anyways, so who cares? It worked in OVMK, I don't know what some people are talking about how other people were abusing it, people enjoyed it and had fun. It added more customization and was no worse than the violence Disney has portrayed in it's other games. This shouldn't even be a discussion, we had it in OVMK, people loved it, it was taken away briefly and people were upset so it was brought back. People will be upset again if it isn't an option in MMK, but if you personally don't like it, then just don't participate in it!
I'm sorry this was so lengthy and had little to do with the game, but it's so frustrating when people aren't realizing that Disney isn't as pure and squeaky clean as they think it is and feel this game needs to maintain that false image, and how they feel that nonsense societal gender roles need to be enforced in this game too.
Littlebelle said:
The avatars are childlike not adult like. So please keep it this way. Thank you.
The avatars can have beards and breasts, neither of which are characteristics of children. Also their hairstyles, faces, and clothing in general are based more off adult styles. The avatars are probably based more off people in their late teens rather than children.
