Laura Croft Research Paper

Throughout your modifications of the video game Laura Croft, one thing has always stayed the same. This is the over sexualizaition of the main character, Laura Croft. This is consistent throughout all of her games. She wears very little clothing, along with large lips and her butt and chest are also overly embellished. The features I stated are also accented significantly as if to appeal toward a particular sex. She is fighting bad guys in unrealistic clothing while managing to look sexy for the desired audience. When in reality the desired audience isn’t necessarily males. If a woman is playing this game, she isn’t getting anything out of the sexualization of her fellow female, and even more she may even be incredibly appalled for the video game creators obvious disregard to representing people in a fair light. …show more content…
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When you and other gaming companies chose to degrade women’s images in every video game, young men will begin to believe that is the way things are meant to be. They will start expecting women to wear little to no clothing, which will cause them to turn up there noses to anyone less than the stereotype that these games have engraved in the player’s heads. The women that play all of these games start believing this is the norm as well, and they will begin sexualizing themselves to please men, rather that relying on their intellect and character to get men interested. Over sexualization of women in videogames, such as Laura Croft, negatively cultivates societies view of how woman should dress and act, as well as their competence in specific