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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 11 2015, @05:48PM
At what point does someone become a mere "sex object" in someone's eyes? ... When you're sexually attracted to them, do not wish to pursue a relationship with them, but fantasize about doing sexual things to them anyway?
Unless you're into necrophilia I'm pretty sure you also fantasize about your desired partner acting upon you. And since subjects are actors and objects are acted upon, that make you the subjective sex object.
The whole subject / object false dichotomy really needs to go. Do you taste food objects or does food excite your taste buds? Does not imagery act upon your senses? Much of sociology and philosophy is just internally inconsistent hogwash, especially feminism.