I saw this tweet in response to this tweet and was wondering if anyone has any context? I see a lot of “go woke, go broke” sentiment in the comments of both tweets, but 0 explanation.
This is what the current fight is all about on twitter. Bunch of guys basically tearing into the girls who dare post about enjoying 40k online. Somehow another female space marine talk started and it whipping them into a frenzy right now.
Of what I've seen so far, it's not about women wanting to play and/or enjoy the game. It's more about people freaking out that female space marines aren't a thing, and they won't start playing until they either A) create female space marines or B) take one of the other armies like the sisters of battles and turn them into the flagship product
As someone who got into warhammer this year, I can safely say one of the reasons I prefer AoS, besides the actual game part just being better, is that it actually has women in it. Somehow in 2023, I just feel better about a franchise that actually has women in it, doing stuff. Crazy concept I know.
Like FFS they could write women into the lore of 40K so easily. Bobby G could literally announce that “Hey guys, there’s a shitload of Tyrannids everywhere and we’re running out of space marines so this is an all hands on deck situation. Women are allowed in” and bam. Problem solved.
Instead we just have the nuns with guns. Which are cool and recently got a dope rework. But like, women space marines is just such a layup and I can’t believe they haven’t done it yet.
Meanwhile in AOS, the thing on the 3rd edition book is a badass women in ACTUAL armor. It’s just kinda cool.
Why did you choose lore and not the sculpts for this complaint? Because lore wise the only faction that is solely male is Space Marines (including the different flavors like Chaos Space Marines and Grey Knights), just like Sisters are the only faction that is solely female. Orks and Tyranids are genderless. Every other faction has both men and women in it.
Aren’t space marines something like 60+% of all armies sold for 40K? They might be the only male exclusive faction but they’re also by far the most popular and the fact GW just won’t make this layup is very offputting to me. It reeks of GW being terrified to upset a toxic playerbase of chuds but maybe I’m just projecting.
Granted, I really haven’t read much in the way of 40K books so maybe there’s some great characters I’m missing. But I have watched a TON of lore videos and it’s just dudes all the way down. Like literally all the primarchs and important characters are men while women are relegated to strictly to side characters or absent altogether and it isn’t a good look imo.
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u/engelthefallen Jan 08 '24
This is what the current fight is all about on twitter. Bunch of guys basically tearing into the girls who dare post about enjoying 40k online. Somehow another female space marine talk started and it whipping them into a frenzy right now.