As for Fassbender, Jackman, Efron...?Originally Posted by Vivi22
The movie Commando was not made with the intent of any women seeing it besides those forced to watch it by their boyfriends. And Arnold doesn't spend half the movie killing folks with his shirt off because women want a bodybuilder sexually. Men wanted to be Arnold. Most women don't want a guy that jacked.
Just saying.
There appears to be a massively different stance between guys and girls with all of this. I mean, girls love Tomb Raider. Girls love Final Fantasy girls. There will probably be a lot of girls that will love Cidney just like there were a lot of girls that loved Rikku, loved Tifa, loved Vanille, loved... you get the idea. And often that is appearances kicking into it rather than just personality.
What I'm getting out of this is that guys are unable to be sexualised, while girls are able to be sexualised. It quite possibly stems from the fact that there seem to be more guys in this world who do sexualise people rather than the fact that girls or guys are being sexualised. The problem exists in the audience rather than the developer. What does a developer have to do? Make everyone ugly just for the sake of making them ugly? Dress everyone approriately at all times? Whatever happened to fantasy?
In the end, I just think that it's not a problem to sexualise fictional people. So long as you're not going around insisting that real people dress in skimpy clothing, I just don't a problem on a personal level. It's hard to really put into words, I suppose, but if the only people to watch an action film were females I don't think we'd suddenly be seeing any fewer men with their shirts off. Girls like a bit of eye candy just like guys do.
