Censorship is the suppression of an idea or image by an entity more powerful than its target. No entity more powerful than Square-Enix is forcing the design of Final Fantasy VII character Tifa. The outrage about her current design is a reactionary movement against an unequal status quo. Content warning: images of police brutality and talk of sexual assault. Support Renegade Cut Media through Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/renegadecut Twitter: https://twitter.com/renegadecut Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/leonthomas/ Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/renegadecut BIBLIOGRAPHY AND FURTHER READING: https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2018/03/13/how-media-portrayal-affects-women-and-what-geena-davis-is-doing-about-it/#37c4bd002962 https://www.marketingweek.com/2017/03/08/portrayal-women-media/ https://www.unicefusa.org/stories/not-object-sexualization-and-exploitation-women-and-girls/30366 https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2015/03/07/the-top-10-video-game-billionaires/#19f075914efc https://www.nsvrc.org/sites/default/files/publications_nsvrc_factsheet_media-packet_statistics-about-sexual-violence_0.pdf https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/19/business/sexism-women-birthplace-workplace.html https://www.quora.com/What-is-meant-by-the-term-institutionalized-power https://www.emmavossen.com/