Can we take a moment to reflect on all of the GTA games for a second? What are they mostly about? I’ll tell you. They all focus on an anti-hero who rises himself up from his bootstraps to become some kind of powerful overlord of sorts. It may be casinos, or drug running, or heists, but generally, the GTA games are longer version of that Drake song, Started From the Bottom (can you tell I am intentionally trying to rile you up?). In many ways, you could consider the GTA games different versions of the Scarface story. The same idea that a low-level thug does various jobs for various shady people in attempt to climb in rank and power.
Now, for a moment, how about we reflect on all the movies where women did the same thing?
You know, like, um, that one movie starring, um……no one. Because it has never happened. Understand, this does not mean this has not happened in real life, because it has. But, that doesn’t mean pop culture has touched it yet. Now, just by pointing this out, I don’t want any of you to misconstrue that I like it. No, I genuinely believe women are misrepresented on film and in mass media, and have been since its inception, but that is not what we are arguing here.
What we are arguing is why, when Rockstar had three leads they put in GTA V, do we not have the opportunity to play as a women? It seems a fair question, but really, what you are all asking is, why isn’t Rockstar the first company ever to do this? That is a damn lofty thing to ask of a game company, isn’t it?
Hollywood is still too scared to even cast females as action leads (with Haywire being the recent exception), and you are asking Rockstar to write one? Think of what you are asking? Also, someone tell me how a female would have worked in the interlocking story of GTA V? There was a specific point to each character, believe it or not.
