When Anita Sarkeesian, a Californian blogger, started a campaign in 2012 to fund a new series of short videos to show gender stereotypes in video games she became the target of some vicious and sustained attacks.
And when there is a token woman, she’s usually wearing an itty-bitty costume over her highly unrealistic body shape that has to have bulging breasts and improbably tiny waist.īut there are even more disturbing instances of misogyny within the gaming industry. According to data gathered by Electronic Entertainment Design and Research in 2012, only 4% of 669 games surveyed had an exclusively female protagonist. Then, in Deathtrap Dungeon, Kelly Brook took underdressing to new BDSM lows. Lara Croft may be the protagonist of her own game but, physically, she resembles what a 14-year-old boy might think a woman should look like. Gaming has long been criticised as being anti-women.
One of the more upsetting aspects of that incident was that the other player spoke to her directly over game VoIP (real-time voice communication) and told her they wanted to rape her. Gamer Kim Correa has written about virtual rape in the game DayZ. These players choose a naked man as their character, lock him to another player and play an animation that thrusts his pelvis about. The GTA games have previously come under fire for their violent sex scenes in the actual game but this takes the outrage to a whole new level.
They are also posting videos of these exploits on YouTube. The game is a world with a living, breathing quality but some GTA players have now started to act out “virtual rape” on avatars controlled by other people playing online by modifying the game’s code. “Stay down or I will finish you off!” your character says after gunning down one prostitute. And you can pick up hookers and kill them immediately after having fairly graphic sex with them. You can get a lap dance where the girl puts her crotch in your face. IN GRAND THEFT Auto V, you can switch between three different POVs ( all male) race around LA in a whole range of causally abducted vehicles, plan elaborate heists and shoot anyone you don’t like the look of.
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