True, but part of why women have an easier time identifying with male protagonists in video games is that we, especially when we’re on the older side, didn’t have much of a choice for most of our lifetimes. Women (and in fact all marginalized groups) are still used to not being represented, white cishet males aren’t. They’ve been socialised in a media landscape that revolves entirely around people intended as role models or self inserts for them. This is why they’re now at the point were even the option to play as something else than a stoic one liner hyperpatriarch has become triggering to them.
Exactly, if you wanted to play video games you had to play as a dude.
Even worse, if they did include a woman character they either looked like a stripper or a pretty pink princess, which is fine if that’s what you want but that’s not a lot of choices. Funny how looking back as an enby I usually chose non-human characters if given the option as their gender is usually more ambiguous.
Hell, you get so used to not being catered to that you don’t even think of it.
This is why whenever cis white dude complain about something the rest of us had to get used to as children I’m just like “Oh this is your first time feeling this way?”
True, but part of why women have an easier time identifying with male protagonists in video games is that we, especially when we’re on the older side, didn’t have much of a choice for most of our lifetimes. Women (and in fact all marginalized groups) are still used to not being represented, white cishet males aren’t. They’ve been socialised in a media landscape that revolves entirely around people intended as role models or self inserts for them. This is why they’re now at the point were even the option to play as something else than a stoic one liner hyperpatriarch has become triggering to them.
Exactly, if you wanted to play video games you had to play as a dude.
Even worse, if they did include a woman character they either looked like a stripper or a pretty pink princess, which is fine if that’s what you want but that’s not a lot of choices. Funny how looking back as an enby I usually chose non-human characters if given the option as their gender is usually more ambiguous.
Hell, you get so used to not being catered to that you don’t even think of it.
This is why whenever cis white dude complain about something the rest of us had to get used to as children I’m just like “Oh this is your first time feeling this way?”