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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: 3, Insightful) by darkfeline on Saturday July 11 2015, @11:09PM
I highly doubt that all rapists consider their victims "object", or "sex objects".
I also dislike how most arguments from champions of social justice almost immediately turn toward ad hominem accusations of rape or support of rape (mental rape, implied rape, race rape, verbal rape). Godwin's Law needs an amendment. "If you X, then you're just like Hitler!" "If you X, then you must support rape!"
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