If women really want to see a greater variety of depictions, shouldn't they be writing to magazines like, say, Cosmopolitan, requesting they invest in video games specifically targeted at women? Or contacting women in other forms of media (television, books, and of course, video games) to do more to represent themselves?
I feel damning men for playing games targeted at men, giving what men want, is rather pointless and counter productive.
It's also further bizarre that women somehow feel threatened by visually perfect women like Lara Croft or whoever, when at the same time go out of their way to spend as much time and money on products to make their faces seem as perfect as possible, going to the gym or going on diets, because magazines and books for women, written BY women, tell them too.
However, one point I really disagree with anyone on is that men are apparently not sexualised as much, or in the same way. This may be true in the case of the game industry, but in the media as a whole, I may even argue men are sexualised more.
All I ever hear at work from my predominantly female team are that they watch tv shows, buy magazines, listening to musicians, etc, because a fit, shirtless man is involved somehow. And this tends to be the case in bars I've been to, and my predominantly female family also.
Ironically, on jobs I've been to with male colleagues, or my male friends, I've very, VERY rarely spoken about the kind of women we're attracted to, and often when we do, it's more about their character than their visual appearance.
Call me shallow, weak, intimidated, or having little in a way of self-esteem, but I often I feel I can't compete with the expectations of most women out there. And yet, here I am, on a forum catered for my tastes, telling me I'm a bad person because I play Dead or Alive. Am I really the minority here. I'm I really a bad person for not allowing it to be acceptable for women to self indulge in their physically perfect man, but I'm not allowed to do the same for women?