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In the study of about 1,400 US youths, 47% of middle-school boys and 61% of high school boys agreed that women are treated as sex objects too often in games.
The findings, gathered by education consultant Rosalind Wiseman and games writer Ashley Burch, counter familiar assumptions that boys will voraciously consume media images of scantily clad women without a second thought.
For many years in the mainstream games industry, there has been an apparent assumption that the male teen demographic was the only one that mattered. Much of the time this meant beefy male protagonists (to identify with – or aspire to) and sexualised women (too gaze at or rescue).
The survey questions and methodology used are not disclosed in the article.
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Survey Says Even Teenage Boys are Sick of Sexist Video Games
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* m2 stares at the monitor... it looks like a hamburger...
m2 - that's a bad sign
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 11 2015, @04:55AM
Maybe some of them are just into flat chests.
(Score: 0, Troll) by davester666 on Saturday July 11 2015, @06:24AM
Those are the ones labeled "gay". They are not pandered to by the video game industry.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 11 2015, @07:50AM
Women can have very sexy womanly figures even without any bust to speak of. It's petty to be narrow-minded about acceptable forms of breast fetishism.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Subsentient on Saturday July 11 2015, @09:32AM
I myself am an ass man, but I don't tend to like oversized breasts.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 11 2015, @10:24AM
Do you have a superpower?
(Score: 4, Funny) by Subsentient on Saturday July 11 2015, @11:11AM
I can control space and time in ways beyond your comprehension, but other than that, no.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Saturday July 11 2015, @08:39PM
So you control space in order to make their butts bigger and their chests smaller?
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(Score: 2) by Subsentient on Saturday July 11 2015, @09:11PM
Sshhhhhh....
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Magic Oddball on Saturday July 11 2015, @12:55PM
Puberty's primary structural changes to a girl are to add fat onto the chest & butt/thighs in some degree, so it wouldn't make sense to say that one can have a totally flat chest and have a "womanly" (adult post-pubertal female) figure. I'm certain that there's plenty of hetero men & lesbians that prefer flat-chested girls/women, though, since there's seemingly a fetish for just about everything...
I'm not sure what you mean by "breast feminism" though — it's kind of a nonsense phrase, given feminism is supposed to be about men & women having the same right to live without being forced/pressured to follow gender stereotypes (e.g. so both can wear skirts or pants without being harassed/mistreated, get paid the same for the same quality of work, etc.).
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 11 2015, @01:00PM
Time for some new glasses Mr Oddball. He typed fetishism, not feminism.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 11 2015, @03:51PM
so it wouldn't make sense to say that one can have a totally flat chest and have a "womanly"
I submit (NSFW)evidence to the contrary [ixquick.com].
(Score: 2) by darkfeline on Saturday July 11 2015, @11:02PM
I don't think it's possible to have a "totally flat" chest, whatever that means. I mean, physiologically, as a skinny male, I don't have a totally flat chest either (pectoral muscles). Likewise, even the most skinny and flat woman is bound to have some chest, by virtue of physiological, post-puberty stuff existing there (someone with more medical knowledge is welcome to elaborate further). Given that, I don't see anything wrong with a preference for small/flat/bare minimum breasts.
In fact, the average (natural) female breast size is B (ranging from A to C depending on genetic and cultural ethnicity) (citation needed). One could say big boobs are unnatural and liking big boobs is a fetish/sexual deviation.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 13 2015, @04:18AM
One could say big boobs are unnatural and liking big boobs is a fetish/sexual deviation.
The number of big boobs is irrelevant; what matters is how many people like them. Only by knowing that can you decide whether or not to classify it as a "sexual deviation."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 13 2015, @04:21AM
Big boobs can't be unnatural because everything is part of nature.
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Sunday July 12 2015, @01:52AM
Or maybe they have much more extensive access [penny-arcade.com] to similar material that they look for something different in their interactive entertainment?