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

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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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by darkfeline on Saturday July 11 2015, @11:15PM

    by darkfeline (1030) on Saturday July 11 2015, @11:15PM (#208011) Homepage

    >Have you ever known a guy who could carry on a conversation reasonably well with other guys, but couldn't talk to women? That's a part of what people are talking about when they say somebody sees women as "sex objects."

    So men who are shy around women think that women are sex objects? That's the stupidest thing I've read in a while. If a woman is shy around men, does she think that all men are sex objects? If someone is shy around powerful people, does he think that all powerful people are sex objects? If a young boy is shy around his crush, does he think that his crush is a sex object?

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