I spoke out about this on Twitter, but I want to elaborate on how much it bothers me that Nintendo elected to include a generic male villager from its mega-hit Animal Crossing franchise in the next Smash Bros game.

The SSB franchise is overrun with men, because Nintendo properties are overrun with men. While I’ve heard some argue that the female AC protagonist may be an alt-skin, I don’t hold out much hope. Nintendo’s been notoriously lazy for this genre’s standards when it comes to alt-skins. I don’t see why they’d opt to do something more than simple recolors this time around.

Nintendo is advertising this game as featuring the male AC character exclusively. Even on the off-chance both are featured, they’ve still said by doing so that male is the default, and that’s gross and sexist as hell.

As much as Nintendo was substantially less sexist than other companies at E3 this year, they’re still pretty damn sexist.