| fazz said: Well, Final Fantasy VI character designs were not exactly super masculine either...
So it's official, VGChartz members wan't super masculine male characters. Oh, on another note... while in America homophobia is seen as latent homosexuality, in Japan, excessive masculinity is seen as latent homosexuality. If someone is overly masculine, there are high chances for him to be gay. Duke Nukem would be the gay king in Japan, for example As for the character design, I like it the way it is. I would be more interested in female character design than in male character design anyway. |
EDIT: Misread your post.
The psychology community in general tends to see homophobia as latent homosexuality so general perception does have some backing. All the testing done on the subject seems to play that out. I know what you're thinking... how does one test for that. Well for men it involves a lot of Gay, Straight and Lesbian porn... and something that measures... well you can imagine. For women it involves less direct means. So men are more often used for the study. End results though... most homophobes appear to be attracted to well, other men.
These guys often try to be the manliest men they can be so they don't have to deal with the shame they feel from these thoughts... so you could see how the japanese might come to that opinion.
