DEBOO'S PROFILE

i haven't been drawing much lately because of exams, but i was vaguely working on a few characters for fun in between revising and just finished them off. thank you for the compliments before btw! :)

i was thinking of suikoden when i did these, so i might add some more after i finish doing...more important things haha.

damn that's really terrible. i thought student loans only had to be paid back after you started earning over a certain amount of money? or is that only the UK?

only the bad guys in the media are violent, horny and aggressive. we aren't supposed to respect them, whereas we are supposed to respect these women who are shown off in a totally derogatory way. i mean, please, the lead character in a game is pretty much always a man and pretty much never depicted as violent and perverse.

author=Thiamor
loaaads of bs

don't mock us by insinuating we don't have a right to feel strongly about something just because there are worse things happening in the world. i wonder how much you would appreciate your opinion on something being trivialised to hell and back.

author=Max McGee
I believe her perspective was something along the lines of, "Why does RMN hate tits so much? What red blooded male hates tits? What is wrong with them?". Her words, not mine, and I left out the most potentially offensive part. Also I'm pretty sure she was talking about the heterosexual male user base here, so not yourself, booblededoo, or craze.

waiit, what? i'm confused. does she think our argument against oversexualisation is we don't like big boobs? i got nothing against big boobs, what i do have a problem with is the derogatory nature in which they're shown off constantly.

and Darken is right^^^

author=Fallen-Griever

Women are basically required to be attractive in modern visual media

Yeah, that's wrong.

no it's not. 'ugly' women have no place in the media, whereas it's a different case for men. don't know what world you're living in if you think it's a two way street.

author=Fallen-Griever
Seriously, though... do you really think that characters like Bayonetta and Lara Croft being "sexy" is an attempt to put women down?

it's not what they're aiming to do by having women wear skimpy clothing, it's what they are unintentionally doing. i understand the male audience argument but why do so many companies seem to forget that women gamers actually exist and surprise, surprise aren't particularly keen on women who should otherwise gain our respect being blatantly oversexualised in games.
like a lot of other males on this topic have answered, you might not have a problem with it, but you're the audience they're apparently only catering for so err it's kind of a given. as a girl however, it can certainly get to a point wherein it's degrading, as though some women are only really there to cater for the men's desires. not exactly empowering and actually pretty damn isolating.

the Ryu example stated earlier is a completely different issue as he was not nude in the hopes of attracting the opposite sex. i wouldn't have cared if he had been a woman and nude because the intention is different. the double standard argument doesn't hold up.

all this being said, i'm actually not all that offended by most women in videogames because, like Acra, i've learnt to turn my head, but i can understand where 'go make me a sandwich' blog is coming from. Acra pretty much got it dead on about the target audience thing and i am very unsurprised about the story of males ostracising the women in online games too. i imagine it happens pretty frequently.

author=Thiamor

man you chat waffle, there's so much i disagree with i just cba