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| Interesting, not often considered take on female representation in video takes | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Oct 17 2011, 01:00 PM (570 Views) | |
| Anomaly | Oct 17 2011, 01:00 PM Post #1 |
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http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/the-big-picture/4719-Gender-Games Having written a paper on female representation in video games for my gender studies class last year, I found this alternative take on gender representation in games quite interesting. It's my impression that the body of literature on gender in video games doesn't actually consider this argument at all. Moviebob's take on this has a lot of merit actually. He doesn't so much go into the consequences of or the trend to portray female characters as heavily sexualised in the way of body or dress design, as much as he points out the way character poses inform us about their personality and how there seems to be an obvious bias towards male characters in the industry. He only gets about 5 mins for his videos, but what he brings to the table in this video seems to be fertile grounds for further research into this matter. Food for thought, anyway. Check out his other videos as well. I don't always agree with him (or his reviews on his other show "Escape to the Movies"), but his videos are usually interesting none the less. |
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| Setoshin | Oct 30 2011, 02:57 PM Post #2 |
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This was pretty good. I think he made some pretty observant points: 1) Gamers, and men in general, tend to have a knee jerk reaction whenever the issue of feminism or sexism is brought up. You can't bring it up without someone saying something to the effect of, "Those damn feminists keep moaning". Which ignores the fact that they might actually have a point. Hardly any of them actually explore whether there is a sound argument behind the detractor's opinions. Which sucks, because it misses out on actual debate, perpetuates and reinforces sexist beliefs, and to put it bluntly: it's cowardly. 2) With the issue of over-sexualization itself, while I don't necessarily believe that sexualization is bad thing, or is necessarily a damaging thing, I do think the fact that almost every female video game character is over-sexualised needs to be evened out. It's boring. It almosts seems as if they include them in games primarily because they are sexy and then personality, intelligence, etc comes after as an accessory. As I said, that's not to say I'm fundamentally opposed to sexy women in video-games or the wider media itself. Humans are sexual beings and will act out on those urges through art. But there needs to be some balance, you can't have every single female looking like Ivy from Soul Calibur. Nonetheless, this was very interesting and I'll probably check out his other videos sometime. |
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