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: 2) by frojack on Saturday July 11 2015, @07:22PM
Well, most first person shooters players never see their own avatar anyway, since the world is viewed over the barrel of a gun. It may be a diversion tactic used against their enemy at best.
I find it odd that the so called study scored that as a positive outcome rather than a negative one.
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