Honestly, might be nostalgic for guys, but as a girl who was playing games in this era, it made me feel like I wasn’t a part of the culture, rarely if ever were there ads marketed towards me, but man were there a lot of half naked ladies. Glad we don’t do this as much, but god this caused a lot of younger girls to feel ashamed of playing games “for boys”.

[–] Daxtron2@startrek.website 1 points 7 months ago (10 children)

It really sucks looking at the detrimental effect this had on gender ratios in gaming to this day. It's gotten a lot better but it's still not there yet.

[–] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 7 months ago (9 children)

Yeah, we need to level the playing field by having half naked sexy guys on the cover of games. ^please

[–] molochthagod@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'd rather we stop sexualizing characters altogether. If anything, it's silly and makes it more difficult to take them seriously.

[–] TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

I think there is space for both sexualized and non-sexualized characters, as long as they are treated evenly. This is entertainment, they don't need to be all business serious.

I dread that in trying to be perfectly respectable, the medium might err to the side of prudishness and sexual repression.

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