I’m female I love playing video games. My favourites are genshin impact and marvel rivals these obviously sexualis woman in crazy ways. I hate how I can’t like the characters and game without being called a gooner. But if you talk about this issue in the communities suddenly you’re not a feminist and you’re the one sexualising the characters. I hate how the characters can’t be cool and attractive without being objectified and sexualised. I hate how every female character is sexualised no matter what. I hate how the men never are only ever the women. I hate how I have to try and convince myself I’m not weird for enjoying to play these characters. I hate how I can’t find art of my favourite characters without them being made to look all weird with massive tits. I hate how I can’t even defend the characters because they’re so obviously made as fanservice sex objects. Why does this have to happen? Why will women always be viewed this way in some sick twisted fantasy. I just wish my favourite characters didn’t have to be made to appeal to the male gaze.
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And if a game has a female character who doesn’t have enormous boobs, it’s “woke” and all the Pepes get into a froth.
I’m female, I was assigned female at birth, and I’ve been a gamer for a lot of my life. I’m actually really not a fan of the frumpy new style of females in video games. I think that there should be more options, not less. We’ve gone from one extreme to the other now, it used to be that every female video game character was 6 ft tall and built like a supermodel, now they are all round-faced dweebs.
If game designers want to include every style of look type for female characters, great. If they want to give us a few different selections, great. But getting rid of the hotties and replacing them with average Janes isn’t the answer. Nor would going back to nothing but baby oil covered Triple E boob Amazon’s.
Give an example of a character that’s actually attractive but isn’t sexualized. I want to know what your standard for this is.
And yes, it has to be a woman.
male characters are sexualized either coz most of them are either topless or has fitting clothing to emphasize macho bodies so yea, it’s just fair… if there should be no sexy women, there should be no macho men either
This used to be an even bigger issue back in the day when they assumed the playerbase was straight males only. It actually got better, but sometimes they go too hard on the opposite direction. Also, to be fair, men are sexualised a lot in games too.
I mostly play single player and I feel like this is mostly fixed in those. Hopefully multiplayer games give more options for women one day soon.
Apologies but males are 100% sexualised too, in Genshin impact.
Tartaglia has jiggle physics on his dick. Wrio the slay has one of the biggest asses of the entire game. Al Haitham has a muscular body with a “boob window”.
You could argue there’s less sexualisation of males than females in Genshin. You could argue some males characters are not sexualised at all (Neuvi, Baizhu, Zhongli) and proportionally a bigger percentage of the male characters is not sexualised but you’re going a little too far by saying “males never are”.