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And the solution to this is... to... make a boring every day housewife the lead character with... some boring bald fat guy who lives alone in his basement taking orders from her?
Seriously, I get what you guys are saying but the only solution to this would be to purposefully bore the game/movie down in an effort to make things more realistic.
Games and movies are be definition meant to be works of fiction. Things that won't happen in the real world and that the target audience can identify with and enjoy. Movies and games that are targeted for men will have the fantasies of men in them. Being a badass, riding a tank, saving the hot girl, causing explosions, killing the bad guys and being the hero. People enjoy this stuff, it's meant to entertain, not to set an example for the real world.
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did you literally just reply to the point “women are rarely the lead character in movies” by basically saying “well duh, if the lead were a woman the movie would have to be about housewives and they’d have to make it boring”
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Woah, hold on. You're basing this on the male targeted movie/game point of view. Wanna watch a random chick flick and see what happens then?
Suddenly the female is the lead character who is an idealized stereotype that appeals to the female ego. And suddenly we're not talking about unrealistic scenario's aimed at men, but aimed at women instead. The love interest who sheepishly follows them halfway across the world. The passionate and romantic candlelit dinner scenes. The rose peddles leading up to the bed. And let's not forget the amazing love making scene that no guy on the planet will ever be able to live up to. And in the end the girl always gets the beautiful handsome and charming guy who follows her like a puppy. Awwww.
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Two points:
- Compare the number of “chick flicks”* made every year to the number of action movies made in a year.
- Why is there an assumption that media aimed at men and women has to follow different genres? Why can’t action movies star women or be aimed at women?
*And I’m not even gonna go into how the name for this genre is subtly demeaning.
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Both will portray the opposite sex in the way the target audience likes to see them. Overly sexy and seductive women for men. Overly romantic and charming men for women. Both are equally unrealistic and there's nothing wrong with that. Because it's fiction and meant to entertain, not to educate.
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Wrong – works of fiction may be unrealistic but people will still see role models, learn morals, and pick up on social cues and body language. Media plays a role in how we perceive and interact with the world.