Sexism Research Paper

Sexism is a very big topic with video games. People always make it so the girls have little to no clothes on. Almost never do they have the guys in video games like this. The guys will get some sweet looking gear and the girls get this little piece of fabric that barley covers the girl’s assets. Guys almost always get the main role in video games, some have where you can choose if you want to be a girl or guy but normally there are less options for the girls and you have to be close to naked. Now don’t get me wrong, there are a few games where the girl gets the lead, some examples are Metroid and Tomb Raider, but there are always games where the girls need saving and they can’t handle themselves. The men always have to go in and save them,

They harass them, threaten their lives and stop at nothing to get what they want. Many females have had to live with this, they are scared to do what they love because of groups like this. Many females are often confined into their homes for safety not leaving for week. Most don’t go to their conventions because they are scared of what might happen. Some have been abused, other have been sexually assaulted. #GamerGate isn’t the only group like this, there are many other groups that are just as bad as this group. Anita Sarkeesian was forced to cancel a speech at a college because of a death threat against her. People were sending many treats and going into great detail about how they would do it. In the end the college told Sarkeesian that they couldn’t stop people with concealed carry. They even as far as making a game where they took turns attacking her. Zoe Quinn had the some kind of problems, she was harassed and disrespected, and gamers put stories about her sexual history, nude photos and talked about abusing her online. They said they wished she would just commit suicide (Dockterman, What

Many developers have worked on making games less sexist. Nintendo has done a great job at this. The Legend of Zelda, and Mario Bros are two great examples. Both now have gotten better with having females being able to handle themselves. In Hyrule Warriors you can play from a large selection of characters, many of them are female. Even the villain is females. In Mario you can now play as Princess Peach in the main game, they have also added Birdo the female Yoshi, Toadette the female Toad, and Daisy, another princess. The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time also got better about having the girl save the day, during the game you have Sheik come and save you, as the player at the time don’t know that Sheik is really Zelda on her own mission to save Hyrule. She saves you and then helps you on your own mission to save Hyrule, not Princess Zelda. Another great game is Mass Effect; you can pick to be either a boy or girl. It really makes no difference to the story line. The only difference it makes is a few minor changes, like it changes some characters so they you can have a relationship and that king of stuff. There is also the Fable series where it all started and you could only be a boy where now you can pick from male or female and no matter who you pick from you can be just as strong as the other and everyone is wearing decent clothing. The Borderlands series has also gotten better with this, in the first game you could only pick from three males