@C_hoffmanni It’s funny how lead game designer of the first game in the series has been a petty hater for the last 8 years but doesn’t want incel and groyper associations so he tries to sheepishly set himself apart by tweeting that he respects women
The entire ideology behind this image is "how dare they not let you consume entertainment media from imperialist countries actively attempting to destroy yours"
What this ordeal has shown me is that I'm surrounded by morons. What is being sold is a ideological narrative in which the veiled woman functions as an immediately recognizable symbol of oppression, repression, backwardness, and unfreedom.
The morality police merely provide the narrative justification. The image does the real ideological work.
Western audiences do not need to understand the history of the Iranian Revolution, the social composition of its supporters, the role of war, sanctions, religion, class, or national sovereignty. The veil already communicates everything the audience has been trained to see. It operates as a visual shorthand for an entire civilizational story.
@Logo_Daedalus Pitchfork’s early “blog” era was wild. Pretty sure I saw something along the lines of “didn’t want to listen to this shit but you ate my review of their last album up so I guess I’m going to write about it”