• @Daxtron2
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    655 months ago

    It really sucks looking at the detrimental effect this had on gender ratios in gaming to this day. It’s gotten a lot better but it’s still not there yet.

    • @Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      515 months ago

      Yeah, we need to level the playing field by having half naked sexy guys on the cover of games. ^please

      • P03 Locke
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        155 months ago

        Like Fabio? Pretty much any depiction of a barbarian is some muscular dude wearing only a loincloth and his broadsword.

      • @Daxtron2
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        75 months ago

        I’m ok with that

      • @molochthagod@lemmy.world
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        55 months ago

        I’d rather we stop sexualizing characters altogether. If anything, it’s silly and makes it more difficult to take them seriously.

        • @TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world
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          45 months ago

          I think there is space for both sexualized and non-sexualized characters, as long as they are treated evenly. This is entertainment, they don’t need to be all business serious.

          I dread that in trying to be perfectly respectable, the medium might err to the side of prudishness and sexual repression.

      • @BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world
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        -55 months ago

        After a woman says she doesn’t like being sexualized, your response is to not worry because the sexualization of women will continue, but you’ll start to sexualize men, too?