Not only this, the reality of those terms was even narrower: women were not only to be presented as attractive and desirable, but to presented as such in line with a specific beauty standards and accepted cultural norms. Women in twentieth century media were historically presented in quite narrow and distinct terms, and women rightly got fed up with that. You'll scarce find two women who agree on what the proper representation for a member of their gender is, let alone two men. The issue is everyone thinking their vision of how certain individuals should be presented is the right one. Whatever you think of that trend, he's very obviously right. Sexy imagery is not, self-evidently sexist, and I think what Alex meant was that the character design isn't in-keeping with current western trends (see Control, HZD, TLOU II, Hellblade, Gears 5, Life is Strange, Tomb Raider and countless others). To me it's weird that anyone would question this.ĭo you all, for example, reject the idea that the original Lara Croft character model, with her hot pants and gigantic pointy tits, is sexist? Isn't it just *obviously* so? Instead presenting her as something to be leered at just seems inherently disrespectful to women. I'd thought that civilised people had accepted that a woman presented in a non-sexual context like this - a videogame character whose sex is irrelevant to her role in the game - should be depicted as much as possible as a rounded human being. It's objectification: the treatment of a person as valuable only in their ability to titillate. To me it's demeaning in the same way that a woman dancing nude for men in a strip club is demeaning, ie *obviously*. It's kind of disconcerting to see so many people question how such imagery could be sexist when it just seems self-evident. I actually find this thread strangely educational, in that I'm being asked to deconstruct a position that I hold that's just so obvious to me that I probably haven't thought about it much for a while. It is, like so many other things, that people perceive the strengths of others as an unfair threat, because dealing with their own reality would be much more painful and harder. It sounds strange at first, but studies and facts show that it is no coincidence that feminists (female and male) are demonstrably at the lower end of the scales for attractiveness and self-confidence.
It's all about objectification, sex and attraction (and money) - and both know and want it exactly that way. The paying spectator does not choose to go to the strip club to discuss feminism and the stripper does not dance or undress to argue about women's rights. Both the dancer and the viewer know EXACTLY what they are getting into beforehand. The strip club is about the attraction between man and woman. Your way of thinking is based on false premises, which is why your conclusion and thus your presented facts are simply incorrect.
And that is exactly where you, like so many others, are wrong, because you ignore the context.
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