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Survey Says Even Teenage Boys are Sick of Sexist Video Games

posted by cmn32480 on Saturday July 11 2015, @04:40AM   Printer-friendly
from the titilation-saturation dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

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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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 11 2015, @09:16AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 11 2015, @09:16AM (#207817)

    "The survey questions and methodology used are not disclosed in the article."

    That's because it was a surveymonkey poll spread via twitter, with no barrier to entry and in feminist circles.
    http://www.everyjoe.com/2015/07/10/news/survey-young-gamers-feelings-portrayal-female-characters-flawed/#1 [everyjoe.com]
    https://imgur.com/a/bIIeS [imgur.com]

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  • (Score: 2) by useless on Sunday July 12 2015, @03:21AM

    by useless (426) on Sunday July 12 2015, @03:21AM (#208054)

    So wait, it's the one they were presenting at the GDC?
    http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1021899/Curiosity-Courage-and-Camouflage-Revealing [gdcvault.com]
    Where they said that they went "all over the country" to classrooms to get the data? WTF?

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 13 2015, @02:20PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 13 2015, @02:20PM (#208503)

    I'm fairly disappointed I had to find this out by reading the text in an imgur post. Shame on you internet. Maybe online journalists need to run their stories through the Reddit bullshit filter before they publish them.