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> It's the only thing that distinguishes her from regular Pac-Man other than the bow.

And the lips, and the eyes. Literally everything except the yellow partial circle is differentiated.

They took a character without gender characteristics, slapped lipstick and a ribbon on it and called it a woman.

What does this tell us about society.

That gender is a social construct with abstractions used to simplify expression when creating fictional characters?

Isn't that more a comment on 8-bit graphics resolution? If you want to question society's relationship with gender I'd examine Lara Croft.

Hm, is the "ribbon & lipstick = woman" part not bothersome to you?

Nah, Ms. Pac Man absolutely slays. Lara Croft is unnecessarily sexualized. I'm definitely going to be unbothered by the first one if we're gonna ignore the second.

I never played Lara Croft so i wouldn't know. I think you would consider the Avengers Ensemble funny with gender roles swapped: https://i1.wp.com/www.comicsbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2011...

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