Conservatives think that the super-structures that govern every aspect of american life are necessarily just and fair. Any failure of said structures that they experience in their lives must therefore be a perversion of those systems, and not a natural consequence of them. A pothole must be the work of the democrats, because otherwise we would have to admit that our roads aren't exceptional
This is definitely a large part of it. Not just conservatives but liberals do this as well just they tend to see them as the failures of the conservatives rather than the system as a whole.
This is less America as a whole and more right wing brain worms. Their white media has created this magical world where it’s everyone else who is living in a fantasy world and they are re also hypocrites who don’t actually believe in the stuff they claim so it’s ok to blindly hate them.
People in the Halo playerbase regularly claim that the reason that the body types in Halo Infinite are all basically identical with only a waist size change to the under armour is because of the evil SJWs. In reality it is very obviously a lazy cost saving measure they took up so they don't have to make armour itself in different size/shapes for their free to play model where they have to churn out assets.
What's more annoying is that most of the women I know that they would call SJWs are unhappy with this too. Their characters feel like men, they don't feel represented like previous games which had sexual dimorphism with obviously different body shapes.
I'm completely fine with types. The issue is that there's almost entirely no difference between them, you could take them out of the game and it would barely be noticeable at all.
What I'm not fine with is erasing sexual dimorphism, something that is essential for the massive majority of women to feel properly "represented". This includes trans women too, who in fact get a great deal of euphoria from presenting as their correct gender.
Don't get me started on how there should be different animation sets too. Different genders move very differently. FFXIV gets this right. The subtle differences in mannerisms and the way we carry ourselves are extremely important. Western companies don't seem to give a fuck though, they just want to be as lazy as possible, women in their games are viewed as an afterthought that costs resources. Just port all the content that was originally designed for men to the female model (if it's different) and call it a day despite the fact that if you design something for a woman from the ground up then you get a completely different result to designing something for a man from the ground up.
It's partly because most of the staff inside these companies have been over-influenced by anita sarkeesan and subsequent feminist criticisms of western representation of women. Not to single her out, she has many worthwhile criticisms, but it has been taken much too far in some regards.
Rather than have "masculine" and "feminine" traits with perhaps a general range of characters that each sit somewhere different on the scale they have instead taken to removing the feminine side altogether. Women will be present but will feature no overtly feminine traits because to do so is apparently bad now, from a western game design perspective. I suspect the companies involved do not trust themselves to treat femininity with respect, so they just avoid it altogether, I don't necessarily blame them for not trusting themselves given the bro-culture we constantly hear about in western game studios. These men make games for men and the male gaze and because their studios are insufferable places for women there aren't any women to speak up.
The results of this are obviously unsatisfying. The only thing I can think of from a major publisher that is still getting it correct and doing so respectfully is The Sims, probably because it has a significant focus on family, children and so on but also because there are more women than men that play the game so they must cater to their audience.
I feel like it's most noticeable to trans women too because quite frankly a lot of the trans women I know overcompensate into the hyper-feminine pinky pink and frills realm "dress go spinny" because they've had that withheld from them in all walks of life. So when they can't be remotely feminine in a game it's very obvious and upsetting.
Ironically the group of people that probably gets blamed for this kind of thing by the chuds are the group that wants extremely feminine content. Generally speaking.
Authoritarianism has scapegoats for everything, it's easier to blame others than fix shit about yourself.
In Ukraine and Russia nationalists and more insane libs love to blame everything on communists and sometimes on Putin (in both countries, lmao).
Those fucking stickers people put on gas pumps that blame Biden for high gas prices, lol.
Completely ignoring how Biden is allowing more drilling, or how Obama made gas cheap to try to destroy Russia's export economy.
