DieGrootHammer
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So, the "good" people over on bulimia.com posted an article over the "real representation of woman in gaming". In this article they photoshopped a few female gaming icons to look "more like their real world counterparts". Here are some of the pictures they made:
Other pictures can be seem on their post on their website.
The point they are making is that these pictures reinforce a negative body image within woman playing these games, and help fuel eating disorders like Bulimia. In an interview with Polygon the creator of these pictures made the following statement:
He also includes men to equality sake though, saying:
In the end, it seems he wants to create awareness of the hypersexualization of woman in gaming by making them less attractive and more realistic looking. I have the following issues with this:
1. So in order to make these characters less of a sex object, they are portrayed as being bigger. This is super offensive, and pretty much isn't true at all. Any person of any size has the potential to be sexually attractive; that domain is not only hold by the super skinny.
2. Let's assume he is correct, and that these woman existed in the real world. Don't you think that the shear amount of physical activity these characters are put through will inevitably make them super skinny and super buff? I mean how many hours do you think Tekken fighters go through, so of course Christie will be ripped and looking buff.
3. So the realistic portrayal of woman are that they are bigger than in video games you say...well, guess what, there are actually really small girls in the real world as well. There are girls that are just naturally little and petite, so it's like this guy is frankly telling them they are not normal as well.
So many issues, and this can become quite a controversial topic, so what do you think, but keep the comments civil
Other pictures can be seem on their post on their website.
The point they are making is that these pictures reinforce a negative body image within woman playing these games, and help fuel eating disorders like Bulimia. In an interview with Polygon the creator of these pictures made the following statement:
He also includes men to equality sake though, saying:
In the end, it seems he wants to create awareness of the hypersexualization of woman in gaming by making them less attractive and more realistic looking. I have the following issues with this:
1. So in order to make these characters less of a sex object, they are portrayed as being bigger. This is super offensive, and pretty much isn't true at all. Any person of any size has the potential to be sexually attractive; that domain is not only hold by the super skinny.
2. Let's assume he is correct, and that these woman existed in the real world. Don't you think that the shear amount of physical activity these characters are put through will inevitably make them super skinny and super buff? I mean how many hours do you think Tekken fighters go through, so of course Christie will be ripped and looking buff.
3. So the realistic portrayal of woman are that they are bigger than in video games you say...well, guess what, there are actually really small girls in the real world as well. There are girls that are just naturally little and petite, so it's like this guy is frankly telling them they are not normal as well.
So many issues, and this can become quite a controversial topic, so what do you think, but keep the comments civil
