That it was severely blown out of proportions, to the point people unironically just keep saying that women who are well-endowed = oversexualized ( which I'd argue is an extremely misogynistic and lacking in nuance take ) and also that a woman wearing shorts is oversexualized...
And also people hyperfocus on it with women and ignore the context of the games they exist in.
Soulcalibur for instance is a game filled with sexual themes for both genders and it also plays into the visual narrative of the characters.
Voldo is a submissive BDSM design and literally humps the air and has a ton of sexual moves and innuendos, and he's submissive because he submits to the evil sword.
If you pay attention the people who submit to it usually have submissive themes and wear cuffs, Ivy doesn't submit she actively fights against the evil sword and is also one of the closest related characters to it and therefore has the dominatrix and domination theme ( and doesn't wear cuffs ).
The evil sword is also specified as male while the good sword is specified as female and there's a lot of themes surrounding that too, the good female characters closest related to it in particular are often hyper feminine and have very conventionally hyper feminine traits and brighter designs.
Ivy has the darker themes because she's essentially weaponizing femininity against an evil ( male ) sword that is trying to dominate her.
People can think it's '' dumb '', but that's also a very narrow-minded Western view to have if you try and force that view on everyone else.
Japanese media is a VERY visual media and there are a ton of visual designs that are very intentional, '' Western '' media generally speaking isn't or at least not to the same extent.
Which is also why I think that Japanese media tends to have more imaginative and memorable character and world designs, the Souls games for instance are VERY Japanese even if the architecture is mostly European.
The approach to the world design is still super Japanese.
Just because it has to do with sex in some cases and in some games doesn't make it wrong.
Every time I hear people get madge about this it always comes across like people screaming '' stop having fun, I don't get it and I am an entitled brat ''.
You're not entitled to like everything, and other people have a right to have content and express themselves in ways you might not like.
If you can't accept that how are you any different at all than an angry parent who called into the tv station to get a show cancelled because you heard a f-bomb or trying to get a comic removed because it had a gay character or you for some reason just hate superheroes?
And also if men are allowed to show skin then so are women, and I don't think it's fair that only hyper masculine bodies are deemed as okay.
I don't really care if some female characters are obese or have gigantic bodybuilder steroid bodies, what I do care about and what does bother me is when people act like it's not okay to have characters on the opposite spectrum.
There's definitely a lot of weird uptight hate towards conventional femininity, even from people who claim to champion diversity and inclusivity.
And then on the other hand they're often fine with it when it's men expressing it ( stuff like drag queens or very effeminate men ).
I don't care about that either, I don't care if a game has a drag queen or a super feminine guy, it's just bullshit when people are then not accepting of it when it's a woman.
Class according to who tho?
Who's the arbiter of this?
It's all completely subjective...
The same with how people claim to speak on behalf of women, women are not a monolith rofl.
Women do not agree about everything there's plenty of women who enjoy VERY sexualized content and then women who don't.
I fail to see why only one side of it should be listened to or get games and characters to play.
The industry is big enough for both...
I've always thought it was strange that most people have no problem with blowing up, killing, stabbing, shooting and generally maiming millions of videogame characters but show a bit of nipple and it's a mega controversy.
I can't say why this is but I do have the same double standards myself. I feel embarrassed if my wife sees me playing Dead or Alive but not if she sees me killing countless people in GTA.¨¨
I think that's fine really, I mean you kinda acknowledge that it's illogical too lol.
But we also can't really always control how we feel.
I think the issue is when people try to get things removed and control what everyone else gets to experience.
Like if you don't want to play DoA with your wife then that's fine, but at the same time DoA still has a right to exist and you don't need to play every game with your wife xD..
I wonder tho do you feel embarrassed too when it's sexualized men on screen?
Funnily enough I grew up playing Soulcalibur and I have two sisters the oldest used to play the games with me and I didn't feel embarrassed.
But I do think it's true a lot of people have these double-standards towards how they view women and men when it comes to this and it's culturally rooted in most cases.
