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Re: Media decolonization
« Reply #15 on: October 07, 2021, 10:04:36 pm »
OK, Psychic Force is a 3D(!) video game from the late 90s, but I am not trying to promote it, so please bear with me. Here is an excellent example of Western obsession with sexual dimorphism. In the original (non-Western) voice acting, Emilio's voice sounds like this:



ie. low sexual dimorphism.

Whereas the Western dub made his voice sound like this:



ie. biologically masculine but stereotypically effeminate (fruity, to use the offensive term - it is Western civilization being offensive!).

It's not as if the Western developers didn't have the original voice to refer to. It's that they knew what the original sounded like but just refused to use a similar voice due to their own Western values! (And of course making it even more of a joke is that they neglected to dub over the in-battle voice effects, so we still get Emilio's original voice during battle, but get the fruity dub for the cutscenes.....)