Persuasive Speech About Women

Good Morning. Video games are probably one of the most widespread forms of media in the 21st century, and they, like other media, use various marketing techniques in order to sell their product. One of the most popular marketing techniques being used is “sex sells”. Video games, like other forms of media, sexualize and objectify women to draw in interest in order to sell their products. Quite a few of the gaming industries nowadays just over-sexualize women and portray them as useless, helpless creatures; the basic damsel in distress. Now, the problem arises when we look at the demographics of the general gamer, who are on average all teenagers and young adults, who are still very influenced by what they see in the media. These representations …show more content…
For example, the game series “Soul Caliber”, there is a female character named Ivy, an extremely sexy pirate, whose chest size keeps on increasing and clothes keeps on shrinking with every next game that comes out. Now, in my personal opinion, while this is all very attractive and the fact that she would be considered sexy by most men, the fact is that such a woman does not exist anywhere in the world; a woman with a perfectly slim frame and a massive chest like Ivy’s simply cannot realistically exist, and I feel that when men see her image, they view her more as a sexual object more than anything else and these views are carried with them into the real world. These men would expect more from real women, as in have a perfect figure and complexion which really puts pressure on women to try hard to be fit and some women would resort to surgically altering their bodies, like Anastasiya Shpagina who is known as the “Real-life Anime Girl”. This “over-sexualizing” of women enforce an incorrect view of how a real women is in the eyes of men which leads to false images of beauty and it are these views that create so many health related issues that are seen in women nowadays such as anorexia and bulimia. Another example of this being seen in other video games would be GTA V where women are portrayed as dumb …show more content…
The greatest example of this would be Princess Peach from the “Mario” series. The whole Mario series is based on the adventures of a man who roams from castle to castle to rescue the kidnapped damsel in distress. The princess in the Mario series is portrayed as helpless and powerless to do anything against the series main antagonist, Bowser, who repeatedly kidnaps her. Mario was a game that I as a child used to play all the time and am an avid fan of the series and I feel that this would be the same for many other gamers. However, when I critically analyze these games and delve deeper into the roles of the characters, I begin to notice problems that these games cause, such as reinforcing negative stereotypes of women. Mario shows how a woman needs a man to protect and shelter her, implying that women are unable to provide and take care of themselves, which is a stereotype that damages the image of women in men’s eyes as it portrays women as