• Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    9 months ago

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

      • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        9 months ago

        Doubt that’s going to be enough, I think if you want to make a sexually objectifying 90s magazine ad that appeals to female nerds you’re going to have to break out the homoerotic innuendos

      • TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

        People used to bring up Kratos in these discussions but before these new games he seemed far more likely to bite someone’s face off than to kiss anyone. There’s a difference.

    • molochthagod@lemmy.world
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      9 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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        9 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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      9 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?