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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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(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.
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(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....
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