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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: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 11 2015, @05:33PM
All of this is generally a case of advertised virtues, for lack of a better term. Rock Paper Shotgun is a Petri dish of this behavior. When they have an article on sexualization or exploitation there are hundreds of posts agreeing and saying how terrible it is, attacking anyone that is not in perfect alignment with whatever the article author has to say. The very next article could have that very same sexualization or exploitation on full display right in the headline image and not one peep if the article author does not blow the war horn.
This current trend is not about making changes, not about what is fair, not about morality or ethics. This quest for social justice is a strengthened version of what has been happening on social media for years: mere opportunities to show or increase your social status by demonstrating some specific virtue. The validity of that virtue, the context, the efficacy, or the necessity are never even considered and the whole thing is abandoned as soon as the opportunity to climb the social ladder passes.