If Sex Sells, Why Aren't Games Sexualizing Men?

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  @garfieldkermit · 4 months ago (edited) · pinned

  Blurred screen at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STuffFl6-jc&amp;t=2280">38:00</a>? Sorry for any frustration, but a clip from the Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball 3 trailer got the video flagged and restricted but luckily I was given the option to just blur it rather than just cut the whole section out of the video. It&apos;s only for a minute, and I would&apos;ve loved to have kept the original version, but the restrictions would&apos;ve meant that people without a Youtube account couldn&apos;t watch the video, so I&apos;m willing to deal with the lesser of two evils. Even still I&apos;ll try and post the unfiltered version of the same clip on my source blog post that you can find in the description as soon as possible, but if that doesn&apos;t work I&apos;ll try and work out some way of making it relatively accessible!<br><br>EDIT: The unblurred clip has been posted on my twt, if you want a link to the direct post &gt; go to the description &gt; go to the full source list &gt; it&apos;s linked near the top of the post right under tapestry image :)<br><br>And just quickly (I&apos;ll make a proper community post addressing this properly in the next week or so), but thank you for the lovely and overwhelming response to this video! I&apos;m trying to respond/react to as many comments as possible, going from oldest to newest, it&apos;s just taking a lot of time because there are so many (not complaining in the slightest!), so just a little pre-emptive apology if it takes me a while to get to your comment! 💜💜💜

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• CI

  @cindyshan4021 · 5 months ago

  i think a lot of men believe that &quot;just being shirtless = sexualized&quot; because they themselves have never fully experienced the extent to which women are sexualized and objectified

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• JA

  @Janne_J · 4 months ago

  to answer the question, yes, sexualizing men does sell because i clicked on this video just because of leon kennedy in a crop top

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• MO

  @moth_academy · 4 months ago

  there&apos;s a massive difference between a character being sexy and a character being <b>sexualized as an object</b>

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• PI

  @pinkbunnydoll · 2 months ago

  I genuinely don&apos;t get what these people think &quot;sexualized&quot; means<br>Half of the male characters they complain about are literally just attractive guys with muscles. There&apos;s nothing sexual about that. Meanwhile, so many female characters are one step away from being completely naked

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• ME

  @menamarteenlyricist · 4 months ago

  As a heterosexual woman, dear God, most men have absolutely no clue about what &quot;sexy&quot; means for women.

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• CO

  @connorcoker5112 · 5 months ago

  Honestly a really good example of how men aren’t sexualized like women in games is that one video of Catwoman and Batman’s animations being swapped

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• PU

  @purpleveiwer · 4 months ago

  To find sexualized men you have to go to the recesses of the internet, to find sexualized women you watch a blockbuster movie

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• WA

  @wa_.mazsxzgv · 3 months ago

  In short: Female characters design with men in mind, while male characters design with......also men in mind. <br>So they did not even consider us female gamer at all

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• EN

  @enci7901 · 3 months ago (edited)

  “Sexy men are powerful, competent, assertive, confident and a leader and a sexy woman has a nice face and body” this really does speak certain values in our society..<br><br>Edit: People are totally missing the point here help us out of this loop hole

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• BF

  @bforblitz4847 · 4 months ago

  The tumblrsexyman archetype is proof that what a lot of women consider attractive in men is not what men think women are attracted to

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• IM

  @iMushu. · 4 months ago

  This is very similar to how most men thought women would prefer Thor, but they preferred Loki... hahaha

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