Kaziz, no offense, but that post kind of makes you look like a jackass.
The "feminists" you're referring to are what the Internet calls "Feminazis," because they only focus on the side of the argument that best benifits their own petty vindications, and refuse to even acknowledge the rest of the movement's purpose.
Most feminist ideology I agree with; in that men tend to be vain, greedy, arrogant dick-wavers who have just about crippled this planet. There weren't that many women leading the Inquisition or Crusades, were there?
However, the loud majority, as Jorge put it, is responsible (almost single-handedly) for destroying what the movement stands for. Rather than focus on women as human beings rather than bodies, as well as be aware of the male equivalent of the same argument (I, for instance, am just as pissed off at the macho-man standard everything's fucking put at, though understandably the female side has had it far worse over the years), they only care about the parts of the argument that's convenient to them. Say a man they're with comments on a hot woman in a Victoria's Secret commercial. Femenazi would lose her shit and proceed to antagonize him for finding a woman (who was in that commercial of her own will, probably) attractive; but that same woman would have no problem gawking at Captain America and Thor commercials. Nevermind if that other guy calls her out on it, then he's just a misogynistic pig who can't see past his own dick.
(Can you tell I've got some prior history with these fucking people?)
Yes, there is sexism in character portrayals in video games. But I don't think it's as big as everyone likes to make it. Sure, Samus is fucking hot. But on the other hand, Vincent Valentine isn't too bad-looking himself. I'm sure Dante and Vergil get a lot of love, too.
But I don't think it's so much the case of a sexist at the helm on the production. It's very simple.
Sex, and therefore sexually attractive body types, sells. Let's be honest. How many people, REALLY, do you think bought Bayonetta just for the gameplay?
It's not fair that that's the case, and even less fair IMO that the usage of "sex sells" is treated as a red-herring point and usually results in the user being stoned for it. It's an unpleasant fact that it does, but it's one of the unfortunate by-products our garbage society has produced. I'll go in the corner and wait for someone to stone me for using it, once I finish up here.
Bottom line, there's so fine of a line in this argument that the slightest offput on a word makes you look like a fucking asshole. I'll admit I'm not the most educated on this subject, but a large part of that is because, frankly, I've had a hard time finding women's studies articles and whatnot that weren't predominantly written from a biased and narrow-minded perspective. Too many people, on BOTH fronts, care too much over little details (like how the Femenazis throw fits over Barbie's physique and not even register that the character's held male-dominant jobs even before actual women did, with the motto of "be who you want to ba" at the helm) and forget either the bigger picture or the other half of the argument (because where gender roles and criticisms are concerned, there is always the other side to take into consideration), and develop contradictory and hypocritical points of view and opinions that result in making the entire movement's philosophy look bad.
I like where it's going too, Jorge.
And K.K.'s on it, too. I always loved Light Yagami in Judgment.
EDIT: Forgot one thing. Kaz, the feminist ideology isn't that men are inferior; it's that men throughout history have made just about every attempt to make
women inferior and subjective to their whims, and to make the effort to celebrate the feminine which was suppressed for so long. It's in that same vein of the women's suffrage movement, just on a different wavelength. It's kinda-sorta about gender equality, but moreso about abolishing the botched and unjust gender roles which have become entrenched in society.
EDIT again: Again, I don't have much official know-how about this shit, just what I've developed on my own. If any of that's made an ass of me, someone more knowledgeable kindly knock my on my ass. I feel like I came off in a way that looks bad.