Originally Posted by NeoCracker
Repeatedly in her article she mentions about how she wants more body types represented. Earlier in her article she writes that women's sizes have increased to a number of things, obesity being one of them. I cannot understand how she in good conscience can tout, "We want more body types!" while ignoring the fact that a multitude of body types are in fact not being represented, and that instead there is a specific body characteristic being represented here with female characters sporting large breasts. I do not see her advocating for more body types. I see her advocating for female characters to keep their large breasts.It is my opinion that assuming that big breasted characters are incapable of having any personality and reducing them to ‘smurf toys’ is, in itself, sexist and demeaning. It assumes that breast size and sexiness are the only things that the player notices or cares about in regard to female characters. Even worse is the assumption that this will make gamers sexist towards women in real life, a presumption that I find deeply patronising and insulting as a gamer. This morality policing of gaming has gotten out of hand. The vast majority of gamers are adults, let us decide for ourselves what we find acceptable. If more body types in gaming is what you want then stick to that instead of yet again promoting one kind of woman at the expense of another. Busty women are gamers too, some of us want to continue to see characters that look like us, deal with it.
And this little gem:
Her mentality does not promote more body types. It promotes one kind of woman who is typecast among a majority of video games featuring breasts too large for their proportions, aka the Sex Toy model from below. If this writer was in favor of more varied body types, she should be promoting body types like these, most of which are more realistic and less fetishized:If more body types in gaming is what you want then stick to that instead of yet again promoting one kind of woman at the expense of another.
It is offensive to me that she can blurt out this sentence on a blog titled "Thoughts of a Feminist Gamer". No.Even worse is the assumption that this will make gamers sexist towards women in real life, a presumption that I find deeply patronising and insulting as a gamer.
