Correct me if I'm wrong, but, aren't themes usually planned by developers? If they're not setting out to make those games sexist in the first place, then there is no 'theme' only a perceived, and very misguided, notion.
Wanting a sexist 'theme' to exist in something isn't the same as it actually existing. The damsel in distress plot isn't some age old plan to display women as the 'weaker sex', it's cliche, but it's not part of some plot of the "patriarchy".
Wanting a sexist 'theme' to exist in something isn't the same as it actually existing. The damsel in distress plot isn't some age old plan to display women as the 'weaker sex', it's cliche, but it's not part of some plot of the "patriarchy".
True, but there's still some cultural stuff surrounding it's design that a lot of western gamers would never know without researching them(being based on Yamauba, myth figure/ Yamanba, a sort of Ganguro Style). It is a shame though that in the west, our first reaction to things we don't have full knowledge of is immediate offense :/