So then who are they designed for? There must be a reason most video game protagonists are white, muscle bound and of very little brain. Is it a sexual fetish? Are most video gamers closet homosexuals?
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There's nothing wrong with sex or being sexy. There's also nothing wrong with sexual fantasy, as long as you're honest about it and can clearly mark the lines between what is real and what isn't.
So any woman who isn't supersexualized or superugly has the only choice of being generic and forgettable?
That's the problem: while you and most other well-adapted adults grew out of your teenage fantasies, the man-child apologists that are vehemently defending their right to cling onto those fantasies never did. Puberty is perpetuity for them.
Stripper-armor, breast physics on busty, underfed teenage girls, and enough flesh to leave nothing to my (quite vast) imagination may have tickled my fancy when I was a hormonal 13-year old, but as a grown man I find women like Jade from Beyond Good & Evil, Alyx Vance in Half-Life 2, Zoey in Left 4 Dead, Samus in…
As a woman, I think it's ok for men to complain about these unrealistic depictions of men. That being said, I don't think the two situations are entirely comparable. One is an issue of unrealistic body types, whereas the other has an added layer of sexualization and invalidation. There is also the factor of how women…
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I'll never forget the expressions on the faces of those doves.
I laughed.
Your guests read the instruction manual.
I am a long time reader of Jezebel and I just created a burner account solely to tell you I started laughing out loud when I read your comment. THANK YOU!
I had anti-aircraft mortars as party favors at my wedding and we didn't have any problems.
Actually, no, she didn't sign up for this. She didn't sign up to be abused and harassed. She didn't sign up to be constantly at the beck and call of these assholes.
NOPE - she signed up to be an ACTOR - not to be hounded by idiots
She did not "literally" sign up for having a pack of insane dogs with cameras literally SCREAMING at her while she politely poses for a photo. Nope. There is absolutely no reason for a photo session to be that noisy, rude, and yes, kind of terrifying. This is just one example. Imagine having to endure it daily on a…
That pretty much sums it up.
A couple of days ago, I made my teenage daughter thank me for moving away from Salem before she was born and to be grateful she never had to live there. She likes it when I make her thank me for hypothetical situations. ;-)
Wait, you mean it ISN'T the easiest, most holy thing in the world for a woman to bear a child and give it away to a loving family???
The thing is, I could have almost been a poster child for what they wanted: I was raped and got pregnant, I had no job and hardly any family. Abortion wasn't really an option for me, even if I could have afforded it, I didn't want one. I could have been one of their success stories that they always use to pressure…
This book is fascinating in its horror: