This is a bad sign, because it just means that people are going to be encouraged to do more trolling like this when they want some attention or a platform.
I find it truely disturbing that a bunch of faux-liberals trying to get attention force a game change, when huge amounts of the gaming community couldn't get the "Mass Effect 3" ending changed when it desperatly needed it in a real sense rather than just being an attention grabbing exercise.
For those who don't really understand the issue, there is no real problem with women being beaten up in games. That's just how it goes when women fight, sometimes they lose. In this case you had a legendary female powerhouse (Medusa) challenging Kratos, and it ended pretty much like you'd expect. Kratos is pretty much equal oppertunity when
brutalizing anyone who gets in his way. The entire situation is perfectly straightforward, fits the series, and there
is nothing wrong with it. The "achievement" is simply a bit of irreverant politically incorrect humor, using a bit of "bro talk" dismissively in response to what was an epic fight.
To be honest for those few people complaining about "OMG, a female on the receiving end of violence" let me put it to you this way... that's equality on action. We have our action girls running around now, and they aren't being patronized by being limited to only fighting other girls (as per the old "cat fight" tropes, where the bad girl will always wind up fighting and being defeated by a hero's love interest so he can maintain his purity in not striking a girl). Women are being pretty much treated like anyone else in video games, it's what people crusaded for, and people need to get used to it. Girls losing is the flip side of girls kicking butt, it goes both ways.
Ironically, it seems to me that people complaining about this scene and achievement seriously, are actually some of the most un-progressive people out there. I mean what, should Medusa have been limited to staying in the kitchen making Sandwiches where she wouldn't get hurt?
Interestingly, I'd also point out that like any enemy in God Of War if the player isn't as quick on the buttons as he needs to be, she is also fully capable of killing Kratos (and is trying to) which kind of invalidates any complaints about the material itself... and being a bit irreverant about it with the achievement is no big thing.
The reason why this is lib-trolling (people trolling with a liberal issue knowing it will get attention) is that plenty of things like this have gone on for years without getting attention. What's more there have been some pretty irreverant bits with female characters brutalizing guys and one liners and such being made about it as well. You'll notice our "crusaders" here didn't seem to be lined up to complain about Bayonetta being sexist against men, people got into the whole "OMG, what a piece of eye candy" thing, but let's be honest... she's even more needlessly brutal and cruel than Kratos is. Kratos might slam someone's head in a door 15-20 times, or pulverize faces or whatever else, Bayoneta will conjure torture devices from thin air just to brutalize her enemies while obviously having a great time doing it, as opposed to Kratos who is usually pretty grim and rage filled during the entire thing, his brutality usually being more of a "excesses in the heat of combat" rather than sitting back giggling while someone gets deconstucted by a floating torture device when the enemy could have been just as easily put down with a couple of bullets at that point.
