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Gamers get hella uncomfortable over male sexuality too. Can you imagine a “good male character who just happens to be wearing sexually exploitative outfits because he’s ok with his masculinity?” Constantly has the camera pan lovingly over his asscrack and firm glutes, and big ole dangly ballsack that is totes sweaty from all this MMA and soldiering. Time to hit the showers, and do you, personally, think it’s ok to have a long slow pan up the dude’s package (indiscreetly hidden in a jock of course), to his chiseled physique and erect nipples (pierced). He’s not even a Bond-esque confident man, he’s basically a weird Bowie caricature that’s constantly having near-dickslips in every single cinematic as the completely nonsexualized female characters do their business of being gruff and shooting dudes and advancing the plot. Finally, at the end he falls in love (out of nowhere) and/or is killed by the big baddie.
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| — | a forum post I read recently, trying to give a solid example of what ‘male objectification in gaming ’ would actually look like if it was anything equivalent to current female objectification in gaming. (via nothingbutsurrender) |
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To the anon with an English teacher: I am totally behind her reading the books. It’s not entirely stupid to be attracted to a book because you hear it references something you like, and I imagine if she has lots of students who are fans than she probably hears a lot of good things about the books. If she paid any attention during her own education she’ll know that Wuthering Heights is hardly a celebration of True-And-For-Always-Soul-Mate love (same with other texts referenced in Twilight. Romeo & Juliet was a genre switch that began as a comedy about how quickly/stupidly teenagers fall in love…) and also she’ll probably recognize the poor writing quality. If she reads it and thinks it’s amazing, well, you know to get a better English teacher. Win-win!
