Chex Quest’s sexism wasn’t really a thing for me back when it was only the Chex Warrior aka Fred against a horde of weird looking flemoids, but now they added diversity with Wheatney (a female), NACL96 (black), PRETZL (transhumanist) and Shane (an obvious reference to Trump supporters from the southern USA) and now it has become quite obvious.


Normally, such diversity would be a good thing (except for Shane who just exists to pender to conservative audiences). But when playing as Wheatney I just felt like I’m playing some disgusting perverts fantasy. You play as a young female who has to defend herself from monsters with phallic shaped hoses for mouths that shoot sticky goo at you and follow you. It just felt wrong and I had to stop my Wheatney playthrough because I was so shocked by this realisation.


It is also shown ingame that Wheatney is more of a coward than the other (male) characters. When she jumps down the hole in the very first level she screams, enforcing the weak female stereotype. The other characters only have “manly” oneliners at this part. Has the world not learned a thing from Anita Sarkeesian?


My suggestion to help decrease the probability of a future scandal involving this game is to immediately fix the sexist Wheatney voice lines and to alter the flemoid design to something less offensive.