Male and Female portrayals in Video Games
Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2011 6:34 pm
While I get kind of annoyed when I'm playing a game and then the "badass" female character comes on screen, only to see a stereotypical scantly clad warrior or something, I have to agree with this article;
http://tinyurl.com/6x2moh5
I get equally as annoyed when main characters are "better" than the average character in a game not due to skill, but when their intelligence level exceeds 9000 and at the same time look like they were the product of a romance between Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger (and excessive amounts of roids) with testosterone leaking through every pore in their body.
Sure these things annoy me, but I don't REALLY care. It's a friggin' video game, and it's just the development team's fantasy. No matter how much weight lifting or training I do, I could never even hope to be like some of these protagonists. Sure, there are games like Persona or Zelda where the main characters are just "normal" people chosen to save the world-blahblahblah, but those examples are unfortunately the minority in the gaming industry.
You don't really see many groups calling to put a stop to the way males are portrayed in video games by characters like Kratos, Marcus Fenix, Dante, etc. It just seems like the only ones going out of their way to complain about the portrayal of gender in video games are those like Feminists.
Am I the only one who thinks that this is a bit of a double standard?
http://tinyurl.com/6x2moh5
I get equally as annoyed when main characters are "better" than the average character in a game not due to skill, but when their intelligence level exceeds 9000 and at the same time look like they were the product of a romance between Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger (and excessive amounts of roids) with testosterone leaking through every pore in their body.
Sure these things annoy me, but I don't REALLY care. It's a friggin' video game, and it's just the development team's fantasy. No matter how much weight lifting or training I do, I could never even hope to be like some of these protagonists. Sure, there are games like Persona or Zelda where the main characters are just "normal" people chosen to save the world-blahblahblah, but those examples are unfortunately the minority in the gaming industry.
You don't really see many groups calling to put a stop to the way males are portrayed in video games by characters like Kratos, Marcus Fenix, Dante, etc. It just seems like the only ones going out of their way to complain about the portrayal of gender in video games are those like Feminists.
Am I the only one who thinks that this is a bit of a double standard?