Street Fighter 6 Collab Makes Ryu A Sexy, Dino-Fighting Robot

13 responses to “Street Fighter 6 Collab Makes Ryu A Sexy, Dino-Fighting Robot”

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   Red_Gambit

   June 9, 2023 at 7:54 am

   Can Kotaku writers please refrain from referring to men as “himbos” just because they find their overly sexualised bodies attractive? It’s deeply misandristic and degrading to men.

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      namiwakiru

      June 9, 2023 at 9:27 am

      It’s clearly a joke ya disingenuous faberge turnip!

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         Red_Gambit

         June 9, 2023 at 10:13 am

         So sexism is okay as long as we’re joking? Good to know.

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            namiwakiru

            June 9, 2023 at 12:19 pm

            If you want knowingly pretend that a term with a positive evolution is the same as one with a negative evolution, then I’m certainly not going to stop you.

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               Red_Gambit

               June 9, 2023 at 12:23 pm

               Calling a man “good looking but stupid” is a positive thing for you?

               In any case, if it wasn’t obvious by now, I was just highlighting how Kotaku loves to run with the foxes and hunt with the hounds when it comes to sexualising characters. Calling Ryu a himbo is fine and should be taken as a lighthearted joke, but god help you if you do it to female character.

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               namiwakiru

               June 9, 2023 at 1:53 pm

               You’re conflating a lot of things to get where you want to go.

               Bimbo is an older term meaning good looking but lacking a certain intelligence, the word evolved in to a derogatory term over time due to the focus on negative attributes.
               Himbo was a newer term that played off the original but the difference is it organically focused on positive attributes, such as loyalty, humour, sensitivity etc.

               This horses been beaten, buried and dug up a few times already but the results always the same and I doubt it’s going to go differently this time around.

               The irony is if you want to talk about sexism you have the perfect example with two words with similar origins yet two vastly different meanings and usages.

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               Red_Gambit

               June 9, 2023 at 2:10 pm

               Dude you can type “himbo” into google and the first result is a definition of “a good-looking but unintelligent young man.” So let’s not pretend it’s a compliment. You’re saying a man is hot, but stupid, which is exactly what bimbo means.

               But let’s put that aside, because we’re arguing about semantics. The point of my original statement is that Kotaku is more than happy to thirst over Ryu, daydream about his fantastically unrealistic muscular body, and write lengthy articles trying to suggest he’s gay for Ken (even though he’s clearly not romantically or sexually interested in ANY gender at this point in his story)…but if you try to suggest that a woman is hot for having an unrealistic body, then you better hang your head in shame for perpetuating damaging and unrealistic stereotypes that degrade women.

               You can say the horse has been beaten, buried and dug up all you want, but I’m going to keep pointing it out until Kotaku knocks this shit off. Because you can’t have it both ways: Either it’s okay to sexualise all genders, or it’s okay to sexualise none of them. You don’t get to pick and choose.

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               namiwakiru

               June 9, 2023 at 3:12 pm

               I’m sorry my dude (another word with vastly different meaning to it’s literal origin) that’s the truth of it, context matters.
               You want himbo to mean the exact same thing as bimbo but it’s evolved different ways, I didn’t decide that, it just happened that way.

               I agree that equality goes both ways but nobody who’s serious would rely on false equivalency and disingenuous outrage, it betrays their motivations.

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               Red_Gambit

               June 9, 2023 at 3:23 pm

               Your only argument that I’m wrong is that you just think that the meaning of the word is somehow different to the example I’ve provided. Not exactly a solid foundation for your standpoint.

               Regardless, perhaps we should just agree to disagree. You clearly don’t think I’m right, I don’t think you’re right. And that’s okay.

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               namiwakiru

               June 9, 2023 at 3:59 pm

               It’s not an opinion, it’s the etymology of the words.
               You even googled them yourself and somehow missed or ignored the usage.

               Again, none of this I decided on my own.
               Had they called Ryu a meat stick, fuck toy or something genuinely negative or sexual in nature I’d likely agree but in this case you’re trying to attribute the usage of one word on to another.

               Seriously, go deep dive the word and you’ll find it always seems to encompass positive attributes.

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               Red_Gambit

               June 9, 2023 at 4:36 pm

               That’s pointless, because you can deep dive anything and find separate opinions on it. I can deep dive chocolate and find one person telling me it’s going to make me fat, and another person telling me it’s good for my health.

               You say that calling Ryu a meat stick is offensive, but I guarantee you I could examples on the internet where people view the phrase fondly. The meaning is down to the individual as much as it is the whole.

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               namiwakiru

               June 9, 2023 at 10:46 pm

               You’ve made an otherwise boring day quite entertaining, that much is true…

               Too bad the same can’t be said for making himbo mean the same as bimbo, that’s no more true than when we started, no matter how much you need it to.

               Stay classy.

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               Red_Gambit

               June 9, 2023 at 11:43 pm

               Ah yes, I see you studied at the “your feeble arguments amuse me” school of winning a debate. A sound strategy when you have nothing to prove your point besides telling me repeatedly that I’m wrong.