Vincent Lejeune dijo [Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 09:26:23PM +0200]: > The poster by itself is not really about sexism, but rather about > cultural appropriation: > First Sara is white in what appears to be a native american like outfit. > Then she is in front of a religious building (the pyramid) and wear a > feather halo. > It seems that feather is a sacred symbol for native american culture. > I might be wrong though since I dind't find anything saying that no > native nation used elements in religious ceremony that could be seen > as sexualizing in my european eyes, > yet Wikipedia's entry on Aztec and Maya women tells that it wasn't the > case ; and IMHO mixing religious symbol and potentially sexualising > clothes is not respectfull. > I think it is as equally offending to have a nun wearing a bikini top > in front of a christian church for instance. > On the other hand, the poster isn't bundled with the game, or at > least, it doesnt really need to be packaged. It's more marketing > material.
Umh, let me address this particular point. I am Mexican, and I believe I am conscious about the importance of our original cultures, and the respect they deserve. While the poster does not strike as the most cautious possible, I do not see it as culturally offensive. It does not attempt to set a scene portraiting what were the cultures really like; the portrait it paints is similar to so many fantasy recreations (think i.e. Disney's "book of the jungle" depiction of the monkey king — And that's way more detailed and involved). I would take far greater offense at, say, a movie like Mel Gibson's "Apocalypto", which attempts to give an air of authenticity to something that's 100% fictional. None of SuperTuxKart's settings attempts to be faithful to reality (10m tall bananas?), and I don't believe anyone would think it is a game about any of the over 60 cultures indigenous to my country. Oh, and FWIW: Several local cultures didn't assign a taboo to breast-showing. In many cases, particularly in the cultures that lived in the warmer climates, the norm was for the woman to go bare-chested. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-women-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150501024549.gb18...@gwolf.org
