Uh oh, you're in for a ride now ;) But seriously though, saying it's not a problem at all is just like saying ALL those characters are a problem, no better at all. What ever happened to reasonable middle-grounds?
Yeah, I understand :) But it doesn't mean that every game should all of a sudden become a David Attenborough documentary about our planet, if you catch my meaning ;) Theres room for all kinds of stuff in there and having it all stacked in the 'boys' corner is obviously not a good idea.
Is this in relation to the TEdtalk I posted? Because it doesn't address the point *at all* that when people reading the resume and evaluations of a person they thought was a man, they described all of his attributes as positives. IE *not* an asshole. But as soon as that same person was presented as female, people made her…
While I do think the power fantasy and sexual exaggeration exist and are evident in some games, I do think it is poor to treat them as mutually exclusive. Not all muscle men are power fantasies and not all athletic women are sexual fantasies.
Yeah, so much disappointment from me. I kinda wish I could un-see this thread, but all in all I'm not too surprised that it ended up like every other thread in the video game community that deals with this subject.