Gamers definitely needs to address the issue of the objectification of women in gaming, but this is just an absurd way to tackle the issue. They want to make characters look average, but the reason we play as those characters in games is precisely because they're not average. They're super-humans that can do things we can't in real life, and their character models reflect that. What's really stupid, though, is they're trying to make these character models out to be an objectification of women, but the character models of men are just as absurd.
Please, it's fantasy, people. It's not meant to reflect real life, and I doubt seeing a pixelated skinny woman with huge boobs on a video game does near as much damage as the magazine and internet ads of real woman peddling beauty that are marketed directly at young, impressionable females.
Please, it's fantasy, people. It's not meant to reflect real life, and I doubt seeing a pixelated skinny woman with huge boobs on a video game does near as much damage as the magazine and internet ads of real woman peddling beauty that are marketed directly at young, impressionable females.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
