NOT ALL FEMALE CHARACTERS SHOULD LOOK LIKE PORNSTARS OR MODELS.Īnd knowing that there are people who disagree with this… it’s scary.īut what do you think about this? What are your opinions on this subject? I am all for sex-appeal and I hate all sorts of censorship, but that doesn’t mean that all female characters in games should look like sexdolls in order to please people. The fact that people complain about some virtual character in a game does not reach their standard for tittilating their sexual wants and needs. It’s pretty scary that people think like this. And so, we need fat/ugly women in games." We’re blind to the fatness and ugliness of men in games, we need the same acceptance for women. I’m also sick of “fat” and/or “ugly” being used as slurs against women in particular. I’m sick to f#ing death of people associating women with beauty. It’s attitudes like that which allow games designers to get away with this kind of bullshit double standard (Both “fat” choices in SW:TOR - why aren’t we talking about this) It’s so frustrating… like people really want to continue the perpetuation that women only get the default “thin, beautiful” template in literally all games whilst men get all body and face types. More news: Women in games have to be sexy. Whatever.Ĭomplaining about female Ryders looks is basically telling Bioware they’re wrong for making a good and refreshing call. Fat, ugly, spotty, skinny, weak, massive, strong. We should be allowed to be “less than perfect” in games, like what men get. Deliberate “beautiful” design is ok.į# you, guys. This news just in: deliberate “ugly” design not ok for female characters. It’s like we’re getting almost the same diversity men have had in every single game since the dawn of somewhat realistic graphics. Lo and behold this is the vitriol we see the second a not-ridiculously-attractive (and yet still somewhat attractive) female appears in a game. "I hate the fact that both men and (more unforgivingly) women are hating on female-Ryder in Andromeda. I saw this on my dashboard just now and found it relevant to this discussion: This topic pops up all the time when it comes to female characters in video games, but due to recent discussions on here, and since I stumbled upon this post I read just now (see below), I thought it relevant to take up here.