Saturday, February 29, 2020

tropes vs women in video games

In the video it touches on how women are represented in video games. In most games they are shown as objects rather than people. In many video games women are shown in skimpy clothes, often in need a help from men in the video game. As well in many games getting kidnapped or taken by men or in the case of King Kong an ape. The way women are portrayed in many video games and movies/ shows show them as unable to help themselves and unable to take care of themselves. Showing them as unable to able to take care of themselves is false and a poor portrayal of women as in most cases they have to take care of them men in their lives.
The portrayal of women has made me realized how in many cases they are viewed as an object rather than a human being which is absolutely absurd. Women are in my opinion stronger than most men with more obstacles thrown their way in life which only makes them stronger. Using women to portray them as objects is an old and archaic way of thinking about them. Only using them as an object for example in Mario, princess Peach is used basically used as a valued object that Mario and Bowser are jockeying for rather as a person herself.
Using this video series to correlate to the reading from this week showing how sexuality should not be the way a person should be looked at rather they should be looked at how the person is as a whole. Not as a women, but rather in how they act as a person and a thriving part of society.

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