The Saints (also known as Initiative 424 / Angels of Death within the ICA) were an elite group of female assassins, who were ordered by Benjamin Travis to eliminate Agent 47 after his arrival at the Waikiki Inn. “It just looks like violence porn to me, and I’m concerned about the minds of men who would come up with a game like this. 'Its time to send in the Saints.' Benjamin Travis. It’s bad enough that they need to do this to survive, but to turn them into the enemy…?” 0:00 / 2:34 Hitman Absolution - Nuns, Guns, And Agent 47 - E3 Trailer GameSpot 5.21M subscribers Subscribe 9. Stripping and prostituting become a way to survive, and to demonize them for that is profoundly misogynistic. “Sociologists have found the number one reason women prostitute themselves is because they’re in poverty and don’t have the resources they need. ”I just think it perpetuates hatred of women, because we all know that women who work as strippers and prostitutes are overwhelmingly victims of violence, not perpetrators of it.” But that’s not who they are, it’s what they do for a living stripping is a job, not an identity.” It’s okay to kill them and beat them up because they’re the ‘dregs of society.' It’s as if they are subhuman and deserve to die. “It’s as if the makers of this video game are saying, 'Hey, these women asked for it. "I think it’s an excuse to show violence against women by making them the initiators of violence,” she said. You're probably not going to be the most average person if you get into that kind of work. They do work for an agency dedicated to killing people. You can sort of forgive the weird latex nun things. Speaking to Forbes under the pseudonym “Athena,” one stripper described the trailer as no more than “violence porn.” ago Those were the worst The worst part is that they're not the worst thing the Absolution story did. For a lot of us, the Hitman: Absolution that saw agent 47 fighting a squad of lethal strippers was an entertaining piece of art, but it seems that at least one stripper doesn’t agree.
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