You may not say it, but I will- people are being overly sensitive on this issue.
These threads have novel value that gets old quickly. At the end of the day, we are arguing over what? How polygons are rendered in a fantasy reality? What about gender inequalities that exists in real life? In contrast they are very real. And this is what you devote your energy to? And we are getting hot over a game? Really?
In psychology, people call it the shadow side, when they project some own inferiority/inner problem on the world. And thus you get radical political groups who try to divide the world into teams and "us versus them" mentality.
We all know the truth. People would be better if they found peace instead of letting their happiness be dictated by other peoples preferences of pixels. And if you have a problem with something, ignore it and focus on what you enjoy. To crusade against others tastes can't be healthy.
This constitutes of course, that it's nothing that physical hurts other people.
So mental illness and refusing to get help has nothing to do with the suicide rate? It's only insecurity from what Dudebro games and spam emails tell them they should be like? Though you are touching on legitimate coo concerns, you make a very desperate argument. You know that these harmful media portrayals and social pressures are mostly conceived by other men, right? The people who are pressuring you the most about dick size and how swole you are are other men.
So why exactly are you blaming talk about women's issues on there not being enough attention on this?
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Why are you so obtrusive and absolute? Advice to your own methods of rhetorics - Try not to debacle other posters into yes/no questions to your loaded questions.
Of course mental illness has something to do with suicide issues, but there are also other factors involved. Of course.
You seem so hang up on having decided that I am a crusader for men rights, when that was not my point at all. of course there is more to it. Of course there are social expectations and idolizing of sports starts, characters like don draper and so on that is not exclusively from other men, but also expectations from society. from commercials, to what you see on TV and films.
Just like women. Women can be really mean to each other, which makes sense. They got a big competition going on, sometimes. A lot of their attention is based on looks, and ugly women are often forgotten. Louis CK said it best;
http://youtu.be/Ohbv6haI1aQ?t=54s < Harsh but a good point.
And something we haven't even talked about - all those women who play video games who enjoy playing highly sexualized characters in skimpy outfits. I enjoy playing sexualized male characters. I think a lot of people do. In fact I think most people do, who are comfortable and relaxed about themselves and their own sexuality. But that's just a guess
The problem is that you (and plenty of MRA guys) want to talk about men's issues at the expense and malignment of talk about women's issues. You can't accept that there can be more than one campaign, and that men and women aren't at odds with each other.
Nope, completely false. I am saying that some victoria secret ad of a beautiful slim perfect looking blonde is not any more body-image ruining than its male counterpart with a young stud with shizzled abs and a perfect chin.
I am not trying to turn into a mens issue. I am saying that the world can be obtrusive and offensive to EVERYONE and EVERYTHING if you choose to victimize yourself and let your own happiness and personal responsiblities be defined by external factors like the content which people choose to create.
Is it really so overboard to want more videogames they can relate to?
No. Just dont take my sex and violence. and dont take their fantasies away either. Rinse repeat - gaming will get its twilight. I am sure of it. But publishers will bank safe.
80% of all video games are about killing/destroying (Edge statistics from a few years back, dont got link..). If thats true it makes sense that we have such a surplus of gaming stories revolving around dude-bros shooting.
It's not overboard, because we need good stories, period. That goes for hollywood too. it's cliche one dimensional characters for men AND women. and that's the trope gaming is caught in.