"Pokemon is for Boys"

Started by Palamon April 20th, 2020 11:34 AM
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What were stupid things nonfans of Pokemon have told you in the past? Pokemon is for boys was one of the ones I heard from 5th graders on the school bus.

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Well, there's those who thought Pokémon and Digimon were the same thing :)))

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Pokemon was frequently clubbed together with Doraemon as a kids show. I still get to hear "You still watch Pokemon?" though I barely watch the anime. Folks here don't know about Pokemon games other than go :^\
And then there was the "Pokemon is satanic" thing.

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For a lot of people the games are boring. Turn-based strategy style combat just isn't for everyone. I used to get mad at folks who said this but now I understand.

I do agree though that having the same formula over and over and over again for the main series gets stale after a while. This is why I often turn to romhacks and spin-offs to spice things up.
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...But isn’t true? Like to be fair, the whole idea of beastly imaginary creatures fighting is pretty masculine...
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...But isn’t true? Like to be fair, the whole idea of beastly imaginary creatures fighting is pretty masculine...
I mean, at first that kinda was true. Pokémon was meant to be a game for boys because they didn't think a game like that would be appealing to girls, but that stopped being a thing since Gen 2 where you became able to choose between a male and female protagonist.
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^Well to be fair just because something is targeted at a specific gender doesn’t mean only that gender will play it, so of course there had to be both options at one point.

And I was mostly really just joking in my post, so let’s not have this go too far, okay?
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Probably just the "Pokemon is for kids" thing, to which I'm like "it's just a video game series, pretty sure you can play them at any age". lol


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I always take the male avatar, however I find that in general (not always) the female avatar is much more interesting from an aesthetic point of view and even if now we can customize our avatar I really feel that the possibilities with girls are always greater than with boys.
I can vouch for this. I don't like how some find it weird when guys choose female avatars. We're not all perverts okay?? Some of us just like the look of the female better.
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I had a family member who thought Pokemon was evil witchcraft.

I loved her unconditionally and she's since passed away...but that was an awkward moment for me since Pokemon is something I enjoy. I'm guessing she just had older values and didn't understand certain medias.