Gender Stereotypes In Video Games

Men. As clear as day, the default setting, for almost anything; unless it has to do with marketing, then the default is a sexy blonde woman who is half naked, trying to sell cologne on a six-foot poster. If women can sell all of these products, why does the marketing industry think that video games with female leads won’t sell? And, why is it that men are always thought of first in a positive way, and women second to mind in a demeaning way? Sex role stereotyping. Sex role stereotyping is hard to kill, it is the boss battle in society, it may not have crazy weapons, but it does have an unfair stamina, an everlasting one at that.
Within that gaming area, women are defenseless. They could be a phenomenal gamer, but they don’t have the options that men have. Starting off, creating an avatar is always the same; as a male, and a lot of games don’t have the option to customize the playable character to even the correct gender. Seldom do games start as a female, unless of course the game happens to be a baking, dress up, or home-making game. But, once the gender is deselected from the ‘norm,’ it is given that the female character needs to be barely dressed. Not like she can be actually dressed at the end. Video games make women unconventional and oversexed: Women in these video …show more content…
Today, the world revolves around “gamer girls.” And how they are portrayed, as women in sexy underwear with their hair and makeup done being the nicest gamers to play with. In reality, women, actually any gamer really, don’t care how nice they look while sitting at home in their dark basement while they rage quit in a video game. These women who play video games are discriminated in three ways: being worshiped like a goddess, being made fun of for being nerdy, or even being called a phoney and a fake. The only thing women who game should be asked, is what games they play and if they want to join