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?
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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?
The point falls flat when you remember that the most popular video game character of all time is a fat Italian plumber LOL
What about the cute, blonde elf? lol