Games That Challenge Traditional Gender Roles
While video games have been the stage for many important topics, their treatment of women, and gender in general, has often been less than stellar. The industry has been criticized in the past for reinforcing gender stereotypes, and presenting characters that don’t challenge the status quo. Typically, a gender stereotype supports the idea that a certain gender behaves or thinks in specific ways. For example, men being tough and unemotional, or women being passive and in need of rescuing, are typical video-game gender conventions. Additionally, although the video game industry is known for inventive and sometimes scandalous character design, female-presenting characters are often hyper-sexualized and dressed in highly inappropriate clothing.
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