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Survey Says Even Teenage Boys are Sick of Sexist Video Games

posted by cmn32480 on Saturday July 11 2015, @04:40AM   
from the titilation-saturation dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

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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• Re:Lies (Score: 2) by forkazoo on Saturday July 11 2015, @07:39PM

  by forkazoo (2561) on Saturday July 11 2015, @07:39PM (#207974)

  I won't comment as to whether the sudden interest in high school males for playing female characters has anything to do with their desire to constantly admire their busty provocatively clad female character.

  Well, it certainly helped Tomb Raider. Lord knows I somehow managed to be excited about playing the original version on DOS for exactly that reason. I was just the right age at the time that I was willing to invest any amount of imagination necessary to convince myself that those six triangles were in fact full luscious womanly breasts.

  Thankfully, I have grown up a bit since then.

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