I like her point that if being sexy is sign of being empowered, why aren't all the empowered men hanging around in lingerie?

She has some interesting points, but I pretty strongly agree with her ultimate point that video games should be pretty but not sexy, specifically with her shaming game devs for making "ugly" women.

I'm not familiar with the Dove commercial or video game or whatever she used clips of, but of games I am familiar with that have ugly characters, I don't recall the creators or marketers drawing attention to the characters for their ugly features or treating that as a selling point specifically in contrast to pretty and sexy characters. In the games/marketing, the female characters not being conventionally attractive isn't commented on at all, just women (female characters) existing apparently without needing to strive for beauty.

Isn't that really the goal? It's nice to appreciate beautiful things and people/characters, but society and popular media are so overwhelmingly saturated with beautiful women --- so much of society expects and demands beauty from women, shames women who don't strive for it or strive and fail --- that I think it's a positive to have some female characters who aren't.

I also think it's pretty telling that she uses screencaps of characters with controversial designs that have been photoshopped to be uglier..... It's pretty dishonest.

I don't think I'm expressing myself well --- brain dead from work --- but I wonder what other people think about that?

I keep saying it, but i think gaming is where the pornographers are moving too. The brothers who own Mindgeek sold Pornhub but now own the gaming publisher Nutaku.

Thank you for posting this. I'm not a gamer but have kids that are interested and I want to have an understanding of what's happening online that's influencing society.

I've always been creeped out by sexualized female characters and I was ashamed to ever pick one, though I wanted to be a female character. Why must we always be ashamed to be women, falls back into the humiliation sissy porn... Men really don't view us as human like they view themselves as human. I wish more women understood this and acted accordingly to make healthy decisions in their lives...

That got a bit off track.. Thanks again for posting. I loved the female gamer speaking at the end, I hope more join her.

Thanks for the link. This girl perfectly articulated the hypocrisy and misogyny on both the left and the right side of the gaming debate

What a wonderful channel! Thanks so much for sharing!

Good on her for calling out the double-standard and hypocrisy of leftist gamers like when they bashed Stellar Blade for their sexualization of the protagonist Eve but praised the sexualized Aphrodite in Hades II!