Twitter roasts gamer who got confused over women having body hair: 'He has never been within 10 feet of a woman before'

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Social media is up in arms after a video game player pointed out what he thought was a mistake in a new game.

On Feb. 14, a Spanish-speaking Twitter user kicked off a series of scathing quote tweets and memes after he asked why the character Aloy from the new Horizon Zero Dawn game “had a beard.”

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The new game, Horizon Forbidden West, is a survival-style, role-playing video game where users play as the character Aloy. It’s a sequel to the original Horizon Zero Dawn, which came out in 2017. Reviewers have praised the game so far, calling it the “bigger, better follow-up” to its already popular predecessor.

It was then that Twitter user @9Santy1 tweeted the newest promotional poster with the question — translated by Google through Twitter — “Can you explain to me why the hell Aloy has a beard?”

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The beard in question is some very light, detailed peach fuzz on Aloy’s face.

The tweet has since been quote-tweeted almost 13,000 times, although it doesn’t seem to bother @9Santy1 because he’s since pinned the tweet to the top of his Twitter profile.

Peach fuzz is fine, translucent, soft hair that every human being has all over their body. The amount of peach buzz on someone’s body depends on their own genetics, but overall, women tend to have more peach fuzz than men because of higher androgen levels.

Technically, peach fuzz also serves a purpose — it can help regulate body temperature. But it’s also OK to remove. However, the removal process is not at all similar to someone shaving their beard, which is made of a different type of hair.

In the first game, Aloy has her face covered up with a headpiece. So fans noticed immediately in late 2021, when previews of the game were released, that she looked a lot more detailed and emotive.

This isn’t the first time Aloy has stirred up controversy. In May 2021, after Sony released a sneak peek of Horizon Forbidden West, another Twitter user complained about how Aloy looked.

“Is it me or [is] Sony making their lead female protagonist look masculine as hell,” user @ApexAlphaJ tweeted. “Barely no curves or rough non-feminine features … Unlike the average woman.”

@ApexAlphaJ then included their own idea of what Aloy should look like. The tweet has since been deleted, but publications published screenshots of the message for reference.

Forbes reported in 2021 that female video gamers have increased tremendously in recent years and argued that the gaming industry needs to catch up. Nearly 41% of all gamers in the U.S. identify as women. Meanwhile, 40% to 45% of Asia’s gaming population — which makes up for 48% of the world’s gaming revenue — identify as women.

Despite those tremendous percentages, a Wired report from 2019 found that only 5% of video games have female protagonists.

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everydayimrusslin on February 18th, 2022 at 03:14 UTC »

There were so many points between hiring this person and them writing this where Yahoo could have had a look at itself, but here we are.

"Shut-in speaks: Not so socialised. Continued on page 4."

BravesBro on February 18th, 2022 at 00:39 UTC »

I was friends with a woman in college who had peach fuzz on her top lip that was slightly thicker than normal, and she was incredibly self-conscious about it. One random weekend she used Nair on it and got a chemical burn. She ended up staying out of school for almost two weeks because of embarrassment, poor thing.

InvisibleEar on February 17th, 2022 at 20:08 UTC »

Really stretching the definition of news here