jtav wrote...
Anyway, I've been doing some thinking. Does anyone else see a strain of "reverse snobbery" running through parts of the game. It didn't work, but the ME2 narrative talks up Jacob as a potentially great commander and hero in his own right. And he finds his fulfillment in being a father and protecting his loved ones. Which is fine, but pretty humble. Miranda really is physically and mentally superior, but she too longs for and achieves "normal."
Well, the mentality underlying that part of the game is that "normal" is like an absolute good, really. It's what everybody wants. Including Shepard, of course.
That's why it's problematic, because "normal" doesn't exist, really. At best, it's a social construct, or a point of view established by consensus. Unfortunately, one of the things that happens when you try to establish such a thing as an absolute is that you start bumbling into all kinds of stereotypes and problematic ideas (mostly without really meaning to, I guess, in this case).
The reason for that is that many stereotypes exist and are perpetuated to stigmatize what is not perceived as normal by the majority.
Which isn't to swing the other way and claim that wanting to focus soley on family, for example, is a bad choice. But that is a choice, and not one everybody makes or should make. So the problem is the moralistic and one-sided presentation (with religious undertones).
Modifié par flemm, 17 août 2012 - 02:05 .
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