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[Locked] Why Is Being a Sex Object A Bad Thing?

KageMinowara · 2012-06-18T07:55:21+00:00

Recently I'm been reading a lot of gaming articles on sites like The Escapist and Extra Credits. Particularly articles about sex and sexism in games. One thing that is presented as a problem over and over is that women in games are oversexualized and women need to be depicted more realistically. I've often heard this said of other mediums such a movies and television, that the women on tv and movies are sex objects and this is a bad thing. But I don't understand why. I would think that being an object of sexual desire would be good thing, its easier to find people to have sex with that way. Yet to hear to hear these opponents of sexual game, tv and movie characters talk you would think its something to be ashamed of. Like you can't view someone as a sex symbol and respect them at the same time, or be a sex symbol and be respectable at the same time. Is it some sort of old Puritan influence at work? I personally want to be a sex object, in my more desperate moments I say to myself that I would kill to be one. I'm in the middle of changing how I eat and am going though what will probably be months of painful exercise so that women will perceive me as one. Awhile ago I was upset that I had to do this, that women could not just accept me for who I am, but it was pointed out that I too have certain standards in reguards to looks. Not out of malice or shallowness or anything its just that that's what I find sexually appealing. Women are the same way and so I cannot fault them for it. Well I could but it would not get me any closer to my goal of attracting a woman, so I might as just take the pain of transforming myself and become what they find sexy.

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Cruz Dope Stone Lion

12 years ago

cruz737 wrote...

I'm kind of sick of all the "gaming journalism" and the clusterfucks it's brought recently. The Kickstarter with Anita Sarkeesian and the Tombraider comments brought in a lot of mindless dribble from both extremes.

Also, related video.

I think this video applies to this thread too.

Being a "sex object" isn't really that bad. Although at some people out there don't really know what "self-restraint" is.

Tegumi "im always cute"

12 years ago

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