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Exposing Lara's... Equanimity?
Exposing Lara's... Equanimity?
By now you've probably heard somewhere, like a noisebriar sticking to your clothes in the digital wind, that Eidos would like to make the Tomb Raider franchise and its heroine more "female friendly." Trina of ladybusiness-focused site GamingAngels recently collected some thoughts on this from ...
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Time Warner will reboot Tomb Raider movies
Fidgit Atom Feed — ... Alexander has done a great job as an apologist for loving Lara just the way she is: I'm pretty sure all us gals are smart enough to know that Lara is a video game character and not a real person. Maybe her body proportions are unrealistic -- but, uh, the fact that she leaps across chasms in the Amazon, balances on hairline ledges and discovers mysterious artifacts with ancient powers is acceptably grounded in reality?You can read the rest of Alexander's girl's-eye view here.

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