Video games + gender
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- Jaline
I need examples of video games in which women are portrayed in a stereotypical manner. I suspect that most do.
Like Grand Theft Auto, or any Mario game.
YouTube videos are welcome.
Thanks.
- 7340
dead or alive series
- spendogg0
Zelda
- flavorful0
- Leisure Suit Larry (I imagine)
- Metroid
- Tomb Raider
- Othello
- Tetris
- Jaline0
I was thinking about Metroid and how much I like Samus. With the suit on, she basically embodies the characteristics of a man. Without the suit, she becomes a stereotypical female character (extremely skinny, blond hair, large breasts), although she has weapons.
- sikma0
its hard not to find a sterotype. if this is for a paper you try looking in the other direction - games without sterotypes
- ukit0
All of the female characters in Street Fighter sucked at fighting compared to the guys
- Jaline0
I have to analyze some video sequences from the videogames, so it's a bit different. I was going to do something else, but violence + video games has been done more, and, surprisingly, some of the people in my class (including my prof, more importantly) were very interested in the topic. It is mostly full of women, and I guess they don't play very many video games.
- Jaline0
Also, I am taking a Critical Discourse Analysis approach to the assignment. It's more in-depth and also focuses on the portrayal of men.
- 7340
video games are a comparable media to anything directed to youth culture. you would find all the same stereotypes in comic books and action flicks.
you could literally name a video game and it would have any number of stereotypes involved.
upon further thought to flavors earlier post: it can easily be argued that the biggest stereotype based around metroid isn't that when she takes that suit off that she looks like a blonde swimsuit model, its that people were shocked when it was originally revealed that she was a woman
- women dont act like that or carry guns = stereotype... shock and awe734
- ukit0
Tetris is clearly sexist. Just look at all those phallus-shaped pieces "penetrating" the bottom of the screen.
- Jaline0
Thanks, 734, I'm stealing all your ideas ;)
By the way, it's not like I actually fully believe everything I am writing down. I have to pretend to believe it in order to receive a good mark. It's all about bullshitting your way through assignments, but getting different perspectives at the same time ;)
- spendogg0
If you look at the characters in the fighting games all the females are hot and have big tits. But you look at the amount of diversity with the male fighters there are some that are mutated and deformed and monsterized - you dont get that with the females.
- Jaline0
Maybe women like the monsterized version of men! Every think of that??!! Eh?
Like Wolverine...
- monster dong734
- They like hairy midgets with questionable grooming habits?flavorful
- shut it, Flash!Jaline
- Though X-23 is hot.flavorful
- she's got some muscles:
http://www.seaneller…Jaline - JEAH!
http://upload.wikime…flavorful - I always thought you were into girls with blond hair and blue eyes, but now I am learning more. First Niko...Jaline
- Basically I like all hot girls. I don't discriminate. Well ... outside of the fact if they are not hot of course, haha.flavorful
- I am partial to blonde and bleu though, haha.flavorful
- lies!
heheJaline - she looks to be pooping... i recommend blond and green eyes with tanned olive skin... course im biased734
- 7340
see also:
final fantasy series (especially X-2 for ps2)
- Jaline0
This will be the legendary beginning to my presentation:
*dim lights
*foreboding music plays
*projector reveals image of Samus
"Hello, colleagues. Look at this image. Is this a man, or a woman?"
*watches classmates' brains explode
- Jaline0
Thanks for the all the suggestions, guys :)
- JKilla770
What was rad about metroid was that you're cruise through this crazy underground world picking up cool items blast'n all the creepy crawlies and all the while you think "Man, this guy is sooooo bad ass" then you beat the game and you're like damn dude looks like a lady!