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Saturday, April 25, 2026
 
Projection onto Pragmata

Hugh, the adult male protagonist of Pragmata, does not have a pedophile relationship with Diana, the female child protagonist. Not only because Hugh is just virtual and doesn't have human vices and flaws other than those specifically written into his story. But also because Diana is an android, and certainly lacks the anatomy for sexual relations. Capcom went out of their way to dress Diana as un-sexual as possible. But still there have been multiple articles in the so-called gaming press accusing Pragmata of being "pedo bait".

Politics have an increasing gender gap, the progressive left is increasingly female. And they hold world views that are increasingly hostile to men. Not just feminist or anti-sexist. But world views like strong male protagonists being inaceptable per se, and it being impossible that an adult male has a relationship to a female child other than that being pedophile. So they project their world views onto Pragmata, and come up with these ridiculous stories. It is culture war, and that culture war is increasingly a gender war.

Capcom understands representation much better than the progressive left. They know that regardless of the gender of the protagonist, the majority of players for a PC/console shooter game are male. And male players do like positive male role models as protagonists. With those positive male role models having been chased out of other media, video games sometimes seem like a last bastion in which such role models are still possible. Video game journalists complaining about that doesn't tell us anything about the game in question, but only about the world views that these journalists project onto the game.

- posted by Tobold @ 6:30 AM Permanent Link
Comments:
Kinda confused on what male role models you seem to think have been driven out of other types of media but I do agree the Pragmata "drama" is silly. While there are certainly degenerates already doing Rule 34 content of the android you are never going to stop that type of behavior, nor is it relevant to the vast majority of people that are going to engage with the videogame. By even bringing it up all you'd (the "journalists") would be doing is drawing more attention to it then it ever would have gotten otherwise.

It is not the developers fault that some people will sexualize literally anything, nor should developers avoid including characters that resemble children just because some perverts on the internet do rule 34 content of anything.
# posted by Blogger Bigeye : 27/4/26 16:57
 
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