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.
Sorry shotgun but you missed the bus. Men's objectification is a fantasy power play in games, women's objectification on the other hand is an oppressive dominating fantasy. (BROAD SWEEPING GENERALIZATIONS!) It seems this issue just causes people to come in with their preconceptions and not attempt to expand them. This…
The problem is I don't buy a word of her power fantasy argument, and from this thread, neither do many, many other people. Her argument also conveniently ignores that what she is calling a "power fantasy" with over-exaggerated muscles, quite a LOT of women would label that a sexuality exaggeration. The "broad shouldered…
it is look like they treat those female character as "generic average guy". I love mirrors edge but the character has weak selling point. I see game like final fantasy XIII , tomb raider , lollipop chainsaw has "strong" female characters either supposed to be sexy or quite feminine . "there are some exception that average…
Right, isn't that her exact criticism? That while men are hugely over-exaggerated too with huge muscled space-marines/barbarians, that's a power fantasy, and women are exaggerated in the sexual direction? So if huge muscles = power, then yeah, the narrative really is solved with an arm wrestling match. There's a reason…
Fearian - that's exactly his point tho! He's doing the naked hero dick joke to show how pointless the whole argument is in the first place. That is to say : of course, female fantasy warriors in chain bikinis don't make any kind of sense! And it would't make any more sense to have Marcus Fenix run around in a jockstrap.…
Um, no. What it is, is brilliant sarcasm (their names in the poster are Georgia O-Queefe Susan B Assthony and Queen Elizatits, how much more obvious can you get?), and I cannot believe you missed this fact. This is a female comic artist, drawing overly ridiculous pictures to mock the portrayal of "strong females" in…
oh wow. But actually, it all makes perfect sense! Look at how FPS protagonist usually starts with small short weapons and gradually he begins to find weapons with bigger and longer barrels. This clearly represents the desire of having a bigger dick! Near the end of the game player has rocket launchers and miniguns and he…
That is bullshit, a vast swathe of women quite clearly have power fantasies about men, its not just physical though, sometimes its magical vampire shit (twilight) sometimes its financial or sexual dominance (50 shades of grey) Power comes in many forms, and if you lack any power or independence as a man, society in general…
Lets just face it. The market for games only has a few segments, and "AAA" games are bought by players who are obsessed with juvenile power fantasies and escapism. These people (mostly males who have never had a girlfriend) have had more experience with media than they have had with reality, to the point where they…