I wonder when we are going to stop focusing on the violence in video games and start focusing on the psychological effects of video games with burly, primal white dudes and their unreasonably busty female counterparts. It sickens me just the same as going through a grocery store line only to have magazines with celebrities-without-makeup and how-to-flatten-your-stomach-in-just-ten-days! When will the media stop feeding off our insecurity of imperfection? What are the psychological effects of main characters as the cis-gendered 'ideal male/female' on those who are anything but? I am in no way surprised that a multi-million dollar business is more worried about profit than the well-being of it's consumers. I wish there was something we could do to call for a change.
I'm definitely beating a dead horse here, but I thought I'd add my two cents.
This gender role nonsense spills out into pretty much everything other aspect of society too.. The other day I was working when a customer brought up an ornament of a dog with a flower on it's head and shorts(my work sells a lot of weird stuff okay). As she set it down on my counter, she suddenly realized that this dog ornament could be dressed up like a girl. "Do you think that this looks like it's for a girl? I'm getting this for my nephew." The ornament was really even not that feminine. "It could be for either," I told her. "No, no, no. Put it back. This is for a girl." I cannot tell you how hard it is to face the fact that our culture breeds such a discrimination against what a boy or girl should or shouldn't have on a daily basis. I wanted to give her a speech on how she shouldn't raise a child in this world to think in such a way. But I have to shut my mouth to save face.
These expectations our culture has feel so in response to the pressure of media. Media that feeds off of our insecurity! Guys, I'm so mad you guys.
TL;DR : I'm really mad about gender roles you guys
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