The Imagination

martin freeman

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Sexual Objectification of Women in Video Games

Kaga said
Well it is, at its simplest, a marketing strategy. Video games are stereotypically "a guy thing", and what tends to get guys' attention? Attractive women. And whether it's a matter of these marketing techniques actually working or just the fact that they're impossible to avoid now, these games sell. And that encourages game developers to keep going with it. So really I think the biggest thing that would need to change is for the game industry to acknowledge that there are more female gamers out there than they think. The only games I ever really see marketed towards females are kids' games, so the "hardcore" gamers are still primarily male, in the eyes of the developers. Bringing more female gamers of that age to their attention might make them change their portrayal of women a little.

Kids games? Thats the only marketed games that are female friendly? You couldn't possibly think of any other examples?

Fighting games, like Mortal Kombat, are the primary candidate for being seen as giving an unrealistic view toward females. But if anything games like that can also empower them in a way. Needless to say, how many women would really play as an unattractive, albet unappealing main character, or any character for that matter? On top of that, not every game portrays females as big breasted, bodacious bootied sex objects. Several adult games even have you play as normal women or even young girls with no sexual appeal.

Maybe we should take aim at fairy tales for portraying unrealistic views.

Sexual Objectification of Women in Video Games

Lets talk about the sexual objectification of spiderman.

Apocalyptica

Hm. When the bullshit subsides in my life i'll try and get into it. I just don't want to dedicate myself just yet and be too inactive :p

Apocalyptica

I was in the process of joining this roleplay prior to the Fall of The Guild, so I feel it's only right if I check it out again and see if I can't try and get back into it.

Not sure why I'm posting it here, but...

Cool.

"Nar Mat Kordh-Ishi" - Orcish Mercenary RP

Whew, finally managed up quite a bit of backstory. I suppose a collaborative post at the moment isn't necessary, seeing as were aiming to get through the camp and general combat in one round of posts. Time to get this rolling.

"Nar Mat Kordh-Ishi" - Orcish Mercenary RP

Excellent. By tomorrow's morn I shall be caught up with both backstory and IC post, that is unless anyone wants to collab via PM, PiratePad or whatever works. Keep in mind everything I do online is on my iPhone, so I don't know how some websites work on this thing. PiratePad works fine, but oddly enough only lasted a day when I set it up before deleting itself, so it'd be better if someone else set it up. (I've never tried TitanPadon my phone, but we could give it a whirl.)

Post Your Pikcha

Berzie said

I love how fucking casual that guy is.