Final Fantasy Sexism Part III: Here Come the Boobs

[The Man]

Aeris is weird because, if anything, she should have Tifa's design. Remember what I said about designs hinting at personalities. Tifa's look would fit Aeris and Aeris' look would fit Tifa. Tifa is a gentle, shy creature and thus a pretty dress be perfect. Aeris is a no-nonsense slum girl who isn't the slightest bit afraid to do whatever the hell she wants and when she wants.

That's the whole smurfing point, man. The whole point of designing Tifa and Aerith like that was that, looking at Tifa, you would expect her to have Aerith's personality, and looking at Aerith, you would expect her to have Tifa's personality. This is a not very subtle way of showing that appearances are meaningless and/or can be deceptive.

Well, first off, no on in advent children, aside from Rufus, is given a good portrayal. That movie was trout.

I said her outfit was less slutty, which is true.

An outfit cannot be "slutty", and it's pretty appalling to have that term thrown around in a thread about a game series' poor gender politics.

That said, I basically agree with WesLY that the gender politics of these two games were smurfing atrocious and that FFVI had the best gender politics of any of the games in the series I've played (I haven't played FFXII, which I'm assuming is the game he's referring to as having had better gender politics). I might have nit-picks on a few points but I don't really care enough to challenge them.