Welcome to day 2 of our MovieBob retrospective as we take a gander at Game Overthinker episode 2: Super Mario and the Sacred Feminine
no there's nothing wrong with your computer that's just bob's mic peaking in the background.
Honestly I don't have much to say about this one because for Bob this episode makes his ideas pretty clear cut:
Peach is a NOT a damsel-in-distress
Bowser a Satanic figure
Super Mario isn't sexist Feminists SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP *inhales industrial-grade copium*
Bob's video starts out simple enough, Bob give the snarkiest retelling of the story of Adam and Eve and after that he summaries the history of women and how they've been treated. This all culminates into Bob declaring that Feminism once was a necessary tool for equality has become a reckless, argumentative cudgel against the modern world.
"In the same way that Dr. King's noble struggle against genuine evil of racism, tragically morphed into the trivial, opportunistic racebaiting of Al Sharpton, the modern feminist movement is still spoiling for a fight but now has no more dragons to slay." -MoobieBob
How does this tie-in to Mario? Simple, the feminists attacked his beloved bing bing wahoo games for playing into outdated female stereotypes and dynamics. Likewise, Bob took it to personally defend m'lady Peach's honor by bringing every point he could possibly make, Including adding a full-minute long segment of flashing JAPAN IS AWESOME right on the screen.
Such arguments bob made include:
-Muh cultural dissonance
-Peach isn't a damsel-in-distress she fights too sometimes
-It's not kidnapping it's a political power struggle between two warring kingdoms
-How can it be so sexist if there no sex?
-Peach gets kidnapped because the villains want her EXTRODINARY POWER, not her virginity like in old fairy tales.
-Peach is actually the REAL rival to Bowser
This all concludes with the final third of the video and the most ridiculous stretch of the imagination I've ever listened to, so hopefully you can follow this logic.
-Bowser (koopa) = Kappa
-Kappa + fire and brimstone + Horns = Bowser
-Bowser = Satan
Therefore that makes Peach = angelic in comparison in the most literal sense.
Bob absolutely does not follow up on this, unless you count mentioning Rosalina as further proof that Mario isn't sexist. I guess a motherly creation spirit character is the furthest you can get from being sexist in your games but that all doesn't apply to peach, which I think she was the whole point of the argument.
He quickly gets one last point in by the last minute by mentioning Women don't have to be strong by copying men, then shows the picrel down below.
In conclusion, Feminists attack Mario. Bob Gets buttmad. Tries to verbally fight imaginary Feminists. Next episode is about Kirby.
Edit: Also I forgot to mention, When Bob talks about ancient man overthrowing the divine matriarchy and becoming god themselves, he shows a gallery of male gods and sneaks in another picture of Miyamoto. I have no idea why he keeps doing this, Bob made his point in the first episode no one's gonna join the church of Miyamoto with him.