May. 17th, 2011

jadedmusings: (Firefly - Women are awesome)
Courtesy of [personal profile] nagaina "Is WoW Inherently Sexist?"

The comments are...about what you'd expect when fanboys (and occasional fangirl) believe their sacred cows are being slaughtered en masse. To quote [personal profile] nagaina: "BUT IT'S A FANTASY!" is not a legitimate defense of any fundamental narrative flaw, much less egregious sexist bullshit.

I bring this up because last night I had the pleasure of running a few quests in Coldarra in Northrend, and I got to Keristrasza's quests. I liked her immediately and thought, "Aha, a strong female NPC ready to take on a huge fucking dragon (Malygos) pretty much all by herself." (Well, by herself and with my help after I run a few fetch quests for her.)

At one point she has you kill Malygos's lover/consort, Saragosa. She lures Malygos in with Saragosa's corpse and yells, "Malygos, come get your lover!" She pauses to breathe fire on the corpse and then says, "...or what's left of her!" At this point I'm sitting here at the computer mouth agape thinking I'm in love.

And then after completing the final quest, Malygos comes down and says he'll take Keristrasza as his lover. Obviously this is against her will, but there's no fighting (that we see). She just...fades away and goes with him without saying a single word and then I get a dungeon quest in The Nexus to go and save her.

WHAT THE FUCK? How do I go from complete and utter badass to damsel in distress? In five seconds I came up with a few other plausible ends to that quest line that still give you very good reasons to go into The Nexus to kick Malygos's blue ass up and down the Borean Tundra and not a single one of them involves Keristrasza needing to be saved.

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