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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 12 2015, @01:21AM
Many people define rape as male->female, the man rapes the woman. They just refuse to understand that men can be raped by women.
(Not wanting to change the topic, it's much like child abuse. Child abuse is abuse inflicted by fathers on children, and not by mothers on children. Speaking as someone who was physically and mentally abused by a mother who used the state to wrest control of the children away from the father - and had him charged for assault on her where she beat herself up - this position, like the above, is completely unacceptable. It's not a case of "we must agree to disagree," because that's a case of opinion rather than fact.)