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.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by blackhawk on Saturday July 11 2015, @12:57PM
I guess you've never heard of rape, or don't believe it happens. You've quite nicely defined a good starting point for rape in your comments.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 11 2015, @04:14PM
There's no such thing as rape, if she claims she got "raped" its because she wanted it at the time and then changed her mind after the fact.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 11 2015, @05:41PM
So does that mean everyone that many people who buy vidogames or consume popular media, since they have been defined as objectifying women, are rapists? If so, then the prison population needs an extra zero added to the right. If not, there is something wrong about your presumption.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 11 2015, @06:16PM
I've heard of rape, but I'm pretty sure these people who make statements about sexual objectification aren't talking solely about rapists.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by darkfeline on Saturday July 11 2015, @11:09PM
I highly doubt that all rapists consider their victims "object", or "sex objects".
I also dislike how most arguments from champions of social justice almost immediately turn toward ad hominem accusations of rape or support of rape (mental rape, implied rape, race rape, verbal rape). Godwin's Law needs an amendment. "If you X, then you're just like Hitler!" "If you X, then you must support rape!"
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 12 2015, @01:21AM
Many people define rape as male->female, the man rapes the woman. They just refuse to understand that men can be raped by women.
(Not wanting to change the topic, it's much like child abuse. Child abuse is abuse inflicted by fathers on children, and not by mothers on children. Speaking as someone who was physically and mentally abused by a mother who used the state to wrest control of the children away from the father - and had him charged for assault on her where she beat herself up - this position, like the above, is completely unacceptable. It's not a case of "we must agree to disagree," because that's a case of opinion rather than fact.)