{"id":1641558,"date":"2022-09-15T08:06:36","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T12:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1641558"},"modified":"2022-09-15T08:07:33","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T12:07:33","slug":"leftists-mad-nintendos-games-dont-feature-transgender-characters-just-pretend-otherwise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/leftists-mad-nintendos-games-dont-feature-transgender-characters-just-pretend-otherwise\/","title":{"rendered":"Leftists Mad Nintendo\u2019s Games Don\u2019t Feature Transgender Characters Just Pretend Otherwise"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fleftists-mad-nintendos-games-dont-feature-transgender-characters-just-pretend-otherwise%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1641558&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The latest big release on Nintendo\u2019s popular Switch console is \u201cSplatoon 3,\u201d a fun exercise in battling opponents to cover an arena with different colored paints, squirted out by humanoid squids wielding oversized water-pistols. In mid-August, however, certain corners of the Internet went <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/08\/random-splatoon-3s-shiver-appears-to-be-nintendos-first-major-non-binary-character\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wild with speculation<\/a> that the game was not as innocent as it appeared.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The particular colors of paint used in the game\u2019s branding happened to be similar to those used in the non-binary pride flag flown by LGBT propagandists. Was the game itself yet more trans propaganda too?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Attention centered upon a new character named <a href=\"https:\/\/splatoonwiki.org\/wiki\/Shiver\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Shiver<\/a>, who looked ambiguously feminine, with eyeliner, shark-tooth earrings, and long blue hair pulled down over one eye in classic Veronica Lake style. Was this a male dressed as a female? Nowhere in their advance PR material did Nintendo specifically refer to Shiver\u2019s sex, nor did they happen to use pronouns when describing the figure. Obviously, this <em>must<\/em> have meant Shiver was non-binary!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Claiming \u201cfans were excited for more inclusivity\u201d in the series, tech website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/8\/24\/23318377\/splatoon-3-shiver-gender-deep-cut-nonbinary-female-inclusivity-nintendo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Verge<\/a> sought official clarification: Is Shiver queer? No, replied Nintendo of America executive Nate Bihldorff, she is not. Shiver is female.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yet some headlines disingenuously implied the opposite. \u201cNintendo Confirms That Splatoon 3\u2019s Shiver Identifies As Female,\u201d reported gaming site <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/08\/nintendo-confirms-that-splatoon-3s-shiver-identifies-as-female\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nintendo Life<\/a>, adding \u201cshe will use she\/her pronouns in the game.\u201d This may sound like Shiver is a man who thinks he is a woman. But it means she <em>is<\/em> female, not that she merely <em>identifies<\/em> as such. Readers\u2019 comments made clear some were confused.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, \u201cSplatoon\u201d is set 12,000 years in the future, where extinct humans are replaced with shape-shifting sea-creatures, able to adopt temporary humanoid form; Shiver is one such protean future-beast, an \u201cOctoling.\u201d It is unclear how an imaginary breed of cephalopod could even be \u201ctransgender\u201d at all, this being a purely human category.<\/p>\n<h2>The Legend of Zelda: Link\u2019s Gay Awakening\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p>Another top Nintendo franchise is \u201cThe Legend of Zelda,\u201d in which the elf-warrior Link wields his Master Sword to rescue the oft-kidnapped Princess Zelda from the evil Dark Lord Ganondorf. In 1998\u2019s \u201cOcarina of Time,\u201d Zelda disguises herself as a man named Sheik and heads desert-ward, hoping to evade Ganondorf\u2019s clutches.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is clearly done purely for plot reasons, which Nintendo has since confirmed with a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/2014\/8\/5\/5948989\/zelda-nintendo-sheik-gender-cosplay\">definitive <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/2014\/8\/5\/5948989\/zelda-nintendo-sheik-gender-cosplay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">answer<\/a>\u201d that Sheik is indeed just a woman in disguise. Yet some ideologues refuse point-blank to accept this \u201cdefinitive answer,\u201d arguing that, in the magical universe where the games are set, it really is possible for a humanoid being to change sex \u2014 an argument that also serves as a tacit admission this is physically impossible in the non-magical off-screen world.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If such gender-bending fantasies \u2014 often dubbed \u201chead-canon\u201d \u2014 stay private, then who cares? The only way I can get through many woke Hollywood movies and TV shows these days myself is by imagining everyone in them <em>isn\u2019t<\/em> gay or transgender. But when campaigners try to force their delusions upon others, it is a different matter.<\/p>\n<h2>Emblems of Victimhood<\/h2>\n<p>Even when non-straight people do appear in games, these professional victims aren\u2019t happy. Nintendo\u2019s \u201cFire Emblem\u201d series features fantasy-world warriors facing off on military battlefields. Individual combatants can fall in love and marry, with their children joining them in combat as the decades pass by. Contemporary entries now offer the discreet option for same-sex partnerships to occur \u2014an option that you can easily ignore and opt not to pursue.<\/p>\n<p>For critics like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/ne8wvg\/fire-emblem-three-houses-doesnt-just-need-gay-characters-it-needs-queer-life\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Todd Harper<\/a>, a teacher of game design, this is prejudiced. \u201cIf queerness exists in these worlds, it\u2019s something <em>you<\/em> add as a player,\u201d a mere \u201cchoice you can make, I guess,\u201d rather than something compulsory. Instead, the option of engineering homosexual relationships must become \u201cone that can\u2019t be sidestepped or deftly avoided.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Just as bad, when the game\u2019s characters get married, the gay and lesbian ones can\u2019t have any children for some \u201cinexplicable\u201d reason. Not only is this \u201cheteronormative\u201d (re: biologically accurate), but it also imposes a \u201cqueer tax\u201d upon the players, says Harper, as they don\u2019t get any extra child soldiers to deploy, putting homosexual players at a terrible military disadvantage.<\/p>\n<h2>Nintendon\u2019t<\/h2>\n<p>Militants view Nintendo as a particular problem as, unlike woke U.S. entertainment giants like Disney, they refuse to proselytize gayness. When in 2013, their \u201cTomodachi Collection: New Life\u201d contained a coding error that <em>did<\/em> allow two men to marry and become pregnant, Nintendo issued a software patch to fix such \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/2013\/05\/14\/bug-allows-same-sex-marriage-nintendo-game-nintendo-releases-patch-to-fix-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">human relations that become strange<\/a>.\u201d The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2014\/may\/08\/nintendo-rejects-gay-relationships-tomodachi-life\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">response<\/a> in the gaming press was overwhelmingly negative. Nintendo announced they \u201cnever intended to make any form of social commentary\u201d but their game was still <a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/fighting-for-gay-marriage-in-a-nintendo-game-1572026032\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">rejected<\/a> by some over the mistake.<\/p>\n<p>Nintendo does have a genuine transgender character: a bow-wearing pink dinosaur named Birdo, who first appeared in 1988\u2019s \u201cSuper Mario Bros 2.\u201d Birdo is described in the <a href=\"https:\/\/alexhasopinions.medium.com\/nintendos-birdo-is-not-a-trans-icon-326dd4c08f2c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">game\u2019s manual<\/a> thus: \u201cHe thinks he is a girl and spits eggs from his mouth. He\u2019d rather be called \u2018Birdetta\u2019.\u201d In the obscure, Japan-only 2008 title \u201cCaptain Rainbow,\u201d Birdo was even arrested for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2008\/08\/captain-rainb-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrongly entering a female toilet<\/a>, an uncanny anticipation of controversies to come.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nintendo clearly meant for Birdo to be a joke and has since become unsure of what to do with this alleged trans icon, sometimes calling Birdo female, at others humorously implying he\/she\/it is in a relationship with the franchise\u2019s other most prominent dinosaur, Yoshi. Onto this confusing blank canvas, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.transsexual.org\/birdo.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">activists<\/a> have since sought to project whatever they please.<\/p>\n<p>For writer <a href=\"https:\/\/alexhasopinions.medium.com\/nintendos-birdo-is-not-a-trans-icon-326dd4c08f2c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Alex Mell-Taylor<\/a>, Nintendo\u2019s proud image as a family-friendly company must be ruthlessly subverted: \u201cHopefully one day Nintendo\u2019s version of Birdo will more closely align to the reality, the queer community [but nobody else] wanted: that of a trans woman, out and proud to her boyfriend Yoshi, the Mushroom Kingdom, and the world. To get there, however, it means accepting the reality that we are in. We must be critical of Nintendo for their historical and current conservatism, and that means [getting them to place] uplifting stories with trans characters in the actual text, not just the subtext.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In other words, Mell-Taylor wants to transform enjoyable Japanese video games into unbearable leftist agitprop, just like everything else these days.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re not supposed to be anything,\u201d say Shiver and her gang in promotional footage for \u201cSplatoon 3.\u201d The trans cult <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegamer.com\/splatoon-3s-shiver-might-be-non-binary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">took this<\/a> as a coded clue she was transsexual. Perhaps they should have taken her words a bit more literally and left normal kids to get on doing what they really wanted to do: shoot each other repeatedly in the face with giant paint guns.\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Steven Tucker is a UK-based writer with several books to his name. 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