WingsandRings wrote...
JigPig wrote...
Yet every human male PC in the game packing thigh-sized arms, pumped up biceps and pecs that Arnold would kill for is ok.
*eyeroll* I hate it when men use this argument. I've seen it on comic book boards too. As if showing Superman's chest and Powergirl's chest has the same effect on the readers. Puh-lease. Arms, biceps, and male pecs do not have the same sexual connotation as a woman's heaving ta tas.
That said, this is not something I usually care about or get worked up about in video games. I will say, though, that as a heterosexual female playing the demo, I STILL couldn't keep my eyes off of Isabella's chest. It was just ...bizarrely big. I kept expecting her to tip over backwards.
You are certainly right, male sexualisation does not do the same as female sexualisation, but then, we would also have to factor in gender differences and..well, personal preference. Not every man get turned on staring at oversized mammaries as evident in this thread, just as not every woman would find the bodybuilder characters unsexy.
But it's all stereotype really, century-worth of comic and mass-media has taught us that unless you look like Arnold in Terminator, you can't even cut a tofu with the sharpest knife in the world. And women will always have to be well endowed but otherwise useless, see: Megan in Transformers.
Though, I would really say, as an illustrator myself, that the truth is most likely far simpler... We just wanna draw comic heroes and ****** on women.