Pleroma

Pleroma

Let’s unpack why fans are angry this idea keeps coming up in interviews about how Tomb Raider is evolving:

1) 7 out of 11 mainline TR games had a female writer on staff, including the first four. It’s sexist to insinuate men can’t write soft characters, in any case.
2) The classic TR games were made at a time when female empowerment meant “girl power”: strength, resilience, tenacity, self-assurance, all while looking great (see Buffy, Xena, Spice Girls, Dana Scully, etc). Different era, different vibe, but that never gets acknowledged in these interviews.
3) Lara always showed compassion and empathy when she came across someone innocent/hurt (which wasn’t often), and she had a vulnerable side in TR4, so it’s not fair to just blanket statement her as “cold”.
4) Lara may cry and hug and show vulnerability and do other “feminine” things now, but she’s still a mass murderer. Why hasn’t that aspect of her character been revised, too?

That stuff notwithstanding, the full interview makes for an interesting read: https://www.ign.com/articles/tomb-raider-the-legend-of-lara-croft-showrunner-tasha-huo-says-fandom-has-led-the-way
Quote from an IGN interview about the upcoming Tomb Raider anime: 
TH: Yeah, I think it was fun to be able to have one scene where she does an incredible feat of strength or agility or what have you — the Lara thing — and then another scene where she's hugging a friend and is emotional with them. I think that's something we definitely wanted to explore in terms of Lara's womanhood. Because historically she's been written by men, so she has been kind of this cold figure, and I know she's not like that. So that was the exciting part to see sort of behind the veil of how she is in her everyday life.
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