Quick, name any form of media where sexualisation isn't heavily induced. TV, Books, Painted/Drawn/Sculpted Art, Movies, all of it, full of sexual themes. And not just in recent history, we're talking for as long as the mediums have existed. The notion that video games should be any different is ridiculous. This implies a necessity that games are for children but that has been shown completely false with the average gaming age landing in the 30's. You can claim that games FOR kids should be relatively void of over-sexualisation but the same goes for TV, Books, Painted/Drawn/Sculpted Art, Movies for kids. To hold gaming as a medium to a higher standard would be to impose your own moral values on people who appreciate such things. If anything, the increase in sexualisation is just keeping pace with an aging/maturing market.
An interesting way to look at sexualisation in media is to look at real life women who go out of their way to look sexy. Going so far as to have actual SURGERY to look sometimes marginally more attractive. I mean, I'm in a college town and I'd be surprised if I don't see women jogging up and down major streets in elastic underwear with words like juicy slapped on their ass. As long as these very real women exist I don't think displaying them in video games is necessarily as wrong or unrealistic as we'd like it to be. Yeah, sometimes they way overdo it. But so do some women with breast augmentation and so do some women in deciding what to wear for their jog in public. Almost any criticism you can levy at sexualisation in games can be levied at other forms of media or people in real life. In my opinion, the women who dress scantily and who do get surgery are no less deserving of their representation in media as any other kind of woman. If you're going to design a character there's no reason not to go for perfection. Movies and TV shows go for this all the time but are generally limited by having to use real people.
At the end of the day, you've got to stop viewing depictions of anything in video games as some kind of slant on women. You should always view it as an artist's portrayal of these objects and are no more guilty of manipulating the human form than most artists. Frankly, people praise Ellie from borderlands 2 but how is this any less exaggeration than big busted and wided hips? I think people are just squeemish of sexuality and that's their problem not everyone else's. To demand this of almost any other form of media would be ridiculous, this should be too. If you want to change the content of media then you've got to vote with your wallet and hope like minded individuals do to. But if sexy is what the general public want then that's what they deserve to get. I personally think sexy can take a lot of different forms and doesn't require skimpy clothing and unreleastic proportions. Actually, my own appreciation of females revolves their ability to handle situations. As long as they have a reasonable female form I can most often times prefer that real personality to any of the playboy bodies they throw around. Bodies are just the meat, males and females alike. But the intellect and personality? That's where it's at. A sexualized female with nothing else to attract is just a lazily made character and better writing SHOULD be demanded of every media form.
An interesting way to look at sexualisation in media is to look at real life women who go out of their way to look sexy. Going so far as to have actual SURGERY to look sometimes marginally more attractive. I mean, I'm in a college town and I'd be surprised if I don't see women jogging up and down major streets in elastic underwear with words like juicy slapped on their ass. As long as these very real women exist I don't think displaying them in video games is necessarily as wrong or unrealistic as we'd like it to be. Yeah, sometimes they way overdo it. But so do some women with breast augmentation and so do some women in deciding what to wear for their jog in public. Almost any criticism you can levy at sexualisation in games can be levied at other forms of media or people in real life. In my opinion, the women who dress scantily and who do get surgery are no less deserving of their representation in media as any other kind of woman. If you're going to design a character there's no reason not to go for perfection. Movies and TV shows go for this all the time but are generally limited by having to use real people.
At the end of the day, you've got to stop viewing depictions of anything in video games as some kind of slant on women. You should always view it as an artist's portrayal of these objects and are no more guilty of manipulating the human form than most artists. Frankly, people praise Ellie from borderlands 2 but how is this any less exaggeration than big busted and wided hips? I think people are just squeemish of sexuality and that's their problem not everyone else's. To demand this of almost any other form of media would be ridiculous, this should be too. If you want to change the content of media then you've got to vote with your wallet and hope like minded individuals do to. But if sexy is what the general public want then that's what they deserve to get. I personally think sexy can take a lot of different forms and doesn't require skimpy clothing and unreleastic proportions. Actually, my own appreciation of females revolves their ability to handle situations. As long as they have a reasonable female form I can most often times prefer that real personality to any of the playboy bodies they throw around. Bodies are just the meat, males and females alike. But the intellect and personality? That's where it's at. A sexualized female with nothing else to attract is just a lazily made character and better writing SHOULD be demanded of every media form.
) and I dont have to worry about sex because I see a bunch.
