This week’s gripe day is dedicated to all the poor Smash Bros. fans of the Western world who have been teased and tortured time and again with the delay of Smash Bros. Brawl. Part of me feels your pain, people, but part of me is content to wait. I know that once Brawl comes out I’ll have to hone my Smash Bros. skills all over again. Years of training will be lost. And when it comes to being a girl playing a game like Brawl, you’ve got no choice but to be good. Otherwise you’re just that chick who can never pick up the Pokeballs in time. Ok, that’s me anywhere, but jeezie creezie they’re small.
Along with the exciting list of new Smash Bros. characters ,Heroine Sheik readers will be happy to see everyone’s favorite princess in drag is back for some ass-kicking action. Zelda is looking confuddling with her new brown (brown!?) hair, but Sheik seems as limber and lithe as ever. Maybe it’s no surprise she’s my personal choice when I play Smash Bros. Brawl should make things even more interesting if I’ll get to expose my cross-dressing crotch to Link like these Smash Bros. Dojo shots suggest…
Bonnie Ruberg is a sex, technology, and video games journalist who contributes regularly to publications like The Economist, Forbes, and The Village Voice. By day she's also a comparative literature PhD student at UC Berkeley, where she studies French, English, gender, sexuality, surrealism and perversion. You can reach her at [her first name and last name, all one big word] AT gmail DOT com.
February 7th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
So what does it say about the character (or us, the observers) when the cross-dressing version of the character is far sexier than the “standard” feminine one.
I suspect there are some connections with general societal trends on what is found attractive. I have argued, to varying levels of success with different people that there are some interesting trends dealing with androgyny these days.
February 7th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
So what does it say about the character (or us, the observers) when the cross-dressing version of the character is far sexier than the “standard” feminine one.
That we have good taste, obviously :).