rynnay: gamerisms: To suggest that women would only play such a kick-ass series as Assassin’s Creed based on the attractiveness of the men is belittling and ridiculous enough. However, let’s look at this a different way. Let’s assume that yes, there are women who may play games because they find the men attractive. It’s no question that game designers often create women in video games that are almost always conventionally beautiful, and often very hypersexualized. Indeed, the business of video games largely capitalizes on the fact that men can ogle at beautiful women for their own pleasure. Female characters are made famous because men find them attractive; The Tomb Raider series and the Dead or Alive series was half-built on the fact that the women featured are attractive and busty. Fighting games feature several women that men love due to their beautiful features. Yet, no one ever suggests that straight men playing a video game because there’s a hot female character in it is a problem. Men can enjoy the attractiveness of a female character all they want, and it’ll just be the norm, no one is going to suggest that those men are not real gamers because they value the aesthetic beauty of women characters. But the instant a straight woman might hypothetically play a game because the men are attractive, then it suddenly becomes a “problem?” Then male gamers are entitled to belittle these women? Then those women are not “real” gamers? Even though there are female characters made for the exact purpose of men finding them attractive? It goes back to how straight men feel so entitled to having video games cater to them in every way, that the instant women enjoy it as something unique to those women, it’s suddenly abhorrent, it’s suddenly women invading the sacred harem of straight male consumption, and suddenly those women must be chased out. So to recap: Men playing games because the women are attractive = Normal, and completely okay. Women playing games because the men are attractive = UGH THOSE GIRLS ARE NOT REAL GAMERS, THEY ONLY WANT TO SEE ATTRACTIVE MEN FIGHT AND DO STUFF AND THEY ARE THE REAL PROBLEM WITH THE GAMING COMMUNITY. Just gonna leave this here. This.

rynnay:

gamerisms:

To suggest that women would only play such a kick-ass series as Assassin’s Creed based on the attractiveness of the men is belittling and ridiculous enough.

However, let’s look at this a different way. Let’s assume that yes, there are women who may play games because they find the men attractive.

It’s no question that game designers often create women in video games that are almost always conventionally beautiful, and often very hypersexualized. Indeed, the business of video games largely capitalizes on the fact that men can ogle at beautiful women for their own pleasure. Female characters are made famous because men find them attractive; The Tomb Raider series and the Dead or Alive series was half-built on the fact that the women featured are attractive and busty. Fighting games feature several women that men love due to their beautiful features. Yet, no one ever suggests that straight men playing a video game because there’s a hot female character in it is a problem. Men can enjoy the attractiveness of a female character all they want, and it’ll just be the norm, no one is going to suggest that those men are not real gamers because they value the aesthetic beauty of women characters.

But the instant a straight woman might hypothetically play a game because the men are attractive, then it suddenly becomes a “problem?” Then male gamers are entitled to belittle these women? Then those women are not “real” gamers? Even though there are female characters made for the exact purpose of men finding them attractive? It goes back to how straight men feel so entitled to having video games cater to them in every way, that the instant women enjoy it as something unique to those women, it’s suddenly abhorrent, it’s suddenly women invading the sacred harem of straight male consumption, and suddenly those women must be chased out.

So to recap:

Men playing games because the women are attractive = Normal, and completely okay.

Women playing games because the men are attractive = UGH THOSE GIRLS ARE NOT REAL GAMERS, THEY ONLY WANT TO SEE ATTRACTIVE MEN FIGHT AND DO STUFF AND THEY ARE THE REAL PROBLEM WITH THE GAMING COMMUNITY.

Just gonna leave this here.

This.