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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: 2) by tibman on Saturday July 11 2015, @06:24PM
All a game company has to do to make money is put it on steam. It will be reviewed by the actual players and recommended to friends. Even terrible games sell pretty decent if they fit into an under-developed niche. But that "game" is definitely not a normal game and will only appeal to a small sub-set of gamers.
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