Some people know the difference between real world and a video game. Some people are aware that games are just games.Originally Posted by Hannibal_Khan
Why is that offensive? You think people don't know the difference between the real world and a video game?
I guess I feel that FF's don't need to give "reasonable" representations of people. I haven't seen many fat, old, or bald male protagonists and I'm not bothered by that. Many of the characters in FF have idealized figures, male and female, which i'm fine with. I believe games are the appropriate medium for these things, Final Fantasy in particular.
Final Fantasy is not some magazine with photoshopped images of "real" women that give girls false or misleading expectations of what a womans figure should be(which is a pretty horrible thing) . People are aware that games are just games. I haven't seen any evidence that VG's change people's behavior to real word people.
However, I believe that the nastiness of GG spreading through the internet like wildfire is a product of men believing that women are objects to be used and abused as they so desire, which is what the female character stereotypes reinforce when their visuals represented in order to appeal to men's tastes and fantasies.
This behavior is not limited to the internet. Additionally, is represented just the same with photoshopped women in magazines, surgically-altered women in porn and so on vs. The Real Female Population.
Okay, let's use the well-worn example of Anita Sarkeesian.I haven't seen any evidence that VG's change people's behavior to real word people.
Anita begins a blog called Tropes vs. Women in Video Games, which examined tropes that she believes reinforce damaging stereotypes about women. Essentially, this is a movement to break away from the female character stereotypes that we all know too well.
She is attacked because of this. She is attacked because men want those female characters to remain the same; they want their games to remain untouched. She becomes a victim of death and rape threats, her webpages and social media are hacked, her article on Wikipedia is vandalized, among a slew of slander and additional threats of all sorts online in comments and Twitter and the like. One attacker created a computer game that allowed players to beat and bloody an image of her. She was forced to vacate her home due to the threats she received, and just recently had to abandon a conference at the University of Utah due to threats of gun violence.
All of these behaviors are examples of peoples' real life behaviors. They are behaviors caused by video games.
This is one case among many where females are harassed, threatened, and whose lives are otherwise endangered because they seek to change the female body, character and role stereotypes in games.
So for you to say "I haven't seen any evidence that VG's change people's behavior to real word people", I have to ask, are you paying attention?
