@liquidprince: I think it has less to do with her being a girl and more to do with developer intention and voice acting direction. If Nolan North had been directed to make similar noises when injured in order to make us "empathize" with him more, I'd think it was just as skeezy.
Regardless, I'm glad you never got that sense out of it. The 2013 reboot has been on Steam sales enough times that most of my pals have bought it and played it by now... and we're of like minds about it, for better or ill. Heck, a Gamestop clerk and I laughed about this very subject while I pre-ordered the game. "Yeah, no objectifying here. Just creepy death moaning. We've come a loooong way. Much better."
But heck, maybe you're right. Maybe it does say more about us and our shared fascination regarding eldritch puzzle boxes. :-P Har har.
A moan is a moan. If you think that it sounds sexual, you're bringing that into it yourself. I don't really understand the sound you would rather her make... a yip? She's in pain, shes gonna moan. Nothing sexual about it, and people saying otherwise are really reaching. Drake does the exact same thing.
Lara sounds completely unnatural when she grunts and moans, I found it very annoying throughout my playthrough of the original game. I wouldn't call it "sexual," but definitely out of place.
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