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blaydcor said:

Khuutra said:
Chun Li doesn't have oversized breasts, she has thighs the size of the anchor on a battleship so she can kick people in the face. She's radically overmuscled in the exact same way Ryu is, just in keeping with her fighting style.

If you're going to make the argument that it's somehow worse for women than it is for men as a predominant trend, you're goign to need to cite a few examples, and pray to God I can't come up with equivalent male examples in the same space, or prove that the most forefront female characters have abandoned their "sex symbol" designation.

Come on. Try me.

My argument: Women in gaming are, quite often, radically sex-charged excuses for developers to throw in well-proportioned eye-candy. This trend has many notable exceptions, but is still rampantly apparent, lending itself to gaming's image as the realm of nerds, losers, and geeks.

 

You: NOT TRUE NOT TRUE CITE EXAMPLES, PRESENT SOPHISTIC COUNTERARGUMENT!!

Going for the jugular of what is, in my eyes, such an inarguable thesis hardly seems like the most effective way to argue your disagreement. This is not a scholarly article; I don't need to cite a half-dozen articles to make a general, widely observed point. (Check out the tagline under the article title.). Why are you arguing against what I'm saying? I'm not attacking gaming, women in gaming, or you. I'm lamenting the how inescapably juvenile so many aspects of gaming are, in particular the design and implementation of female gaming. The author of the article was (albeit inarticulately) too.

Oh, and as far as your closing ultimatum goes...Leisure Suit Larry; Playboy the Mansion, BMX XXX.....how many games are there where you're a girl going around getting guys to strip, flash their penises, and bless you with sexual favours? Um....good luck with your counter example.

I don't like to say this very often....but I will here.   Owned.