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I am annoyed with how women characters are sexualized in games (piefed.social)

submitted 6 days ago by JerryMerweather@piefed.social to c/goodoffmychest@lemmy.world

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Makes me frustrated and hopeless, Its quite clear that they do this for the male gaze and whatever its called, but that doesnt justify it and makes me very sick.

Not saying that beautiful characters are bad, but semi naked characters with unrealistic beauty which both have nothing to do with the game at all is terrible, very terriole.
Why ruin a good game for the so called" male gaze" or "sex sells" thing? why?

I feel like a hypocrite and a loser.

Not sure if indie games are any better, itch io is very good, it has great (hidden) gems.

But its also filled with dating games and whatnot, I didnt check the nsfw games, but I wouldnt be surprised if they filled the entire front page.

Anyway, Its a deep issue for me, wanted to vent, thanks for reading.

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[–] Zarobi@aussie.zone 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

As a guy, I never understand what women find attractive about men. My partners in the past have tried to explain it to me, but when I pointed out other examples it's always "no, not like that." There must be some qualities I'm blind to.

I think it's a self selecting problem as well, since so many game developers are men, and we make what we know and understand. If there was more women designers, I'm sure we would get more hot guys, and maybe not even notice.

[–] gegil@sopuli.xyz 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Maybe you are too straight to find men attractive, and those games are really made just for "male gaze". I dont think people will find hot guys hot, if they are not into them.

[–] Zarobi@aussie.zone 1 points 5 days ago

I think it's more like, there's things that men find attractive, and things women find attractive, in both men and women. Right now even the men are designed for men