after playing... i'm not sure i can say that it is... sexist. It's absolutely brutal... but i got a bigger ''this is the horror of war'' vibe from the whole thing.
just another spoiler that i forgot to mention...
Before it is revealed that Paz had an explosive device inserted into her privates it is very strongly alluded that she also suffered genital mutilation as part of her abuse and torture. Maybe as part of the procedure. Can't tell if it was part of the whole process with her or if it was an isolated instance.
It's cruel, cold and quite disturbing... but i didn't see it as Fetishistic, i saw it as twisted.... fucked up. And the point that this game is trying to make such blunt parallels with real life war stories is really what irks the most... that it's not necessarily an overblown fantastic notion of the truth... it is presented more like a raw view of the stuff that happens in these war scenarios... all condensed and compressed into a quite nightmarish scenario really...
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