I desperately want to know what that poster considers deviant sexual behavior. Cause I bet just having a girlfriend and having sex is basically what that dude means.
Not to mention what "the media" his girlfriend showed that led to this. How can someone drop a post like that and nobody even responds asking questions about it?
In any case, our heroes are onto both the "academic" and the OP:
Dude unironically moans about wokism, Critical Race Theory, calls the anti-racism movement in 2020 a moral panic and that narratives on race are mistaken, believes hate crimes are rare in the US, thinks free speech is being ruined because universities aren't allowing bigots to talk, supports Rowling and pushes transphobic rhetoric.
Yet I'm supposed to think his study comes from a place of earnest when the outcome is to boldly claim that actually, sexualisation of women and girls in games isn't an issue.
Fucking big yikes
where did TC come across this article.
A meticulously inaccurate way of framing sexism and misogyny in order to ensure the conclusion is that "sexualisation isn't bad," "anyone who complains is just attacking video games" and "this is just moral panic."
Whether this was deliberate on the author's part or genuine ignorance, now look, there's a study to link to the next time someone wants to attack criticism on representation of female characters, how convenient!
It’s most definitely deliberate.
This feels like one of those threads where the OP is just never going to post in it while the thread itself eventually gets locked because there's no way to escape the implied subtweeting of "see all you people complaining about this are just complaining about nothing, up yours woke moralists" without any actual arguments to discuss instead.
Genuinely seems like OP was either trying to "hide their power level" or genuinely was not aware that this "study" came from someone who's fucked in the head.
Christopher Ferguson was pretty instrumental in breaking down the stigma of violent games in academia. Reading his Twitter now is a big yikes though. I'm sure he feels like he's a level headed European denouncing both sides of the hyper partisan US, but the middle ground in the US is pretty far right.
The only folks I've seen referring to this "study" are some real shitheads with real bad opinions. You know, the whole "this game is woke because there is a woman in it" crowd.
Looking at this fool's Twitter, that seems to be his preferred audience.
And it turns out that video games
do lead to violence even though no study has replicated that claim either:
Wow, thank goodness the media we consume doesn't have any effect on us. Brilliant stuff.
Did you hear? Propaganda doesn't work either!
This is all really good news. We don’t have to worry any more about racism in fiction, either, presumably.
Also, the whole thing is also a woman problem and we need to force them to do better:
And sadly this isn't just a men designing women problem; I've seen over the years women also fall into the mentality that unattractive or non-"sexy" women shouldn't be in games as well.
Which is a very good reason why, at the end of the day, there needs to be a wider spectrum of body types positively depicted in gaming.
Some people may try to respond to criticism of sexualization by claiming such critics want to get rid of all conventionally attractive women in media, which is just a fallacy. At the end of the day, it's about expanding the scope of what is considered acceptable and making sure more players will feel welcome.
