Where is the outcry for over muscled male characters? Remember Haggar from Final Fight? Chris in RE4? Why is there a push to get women characters down to human size, but they gloss over that? If one side is going to be changed, change it all. Why are men supposed to feel bad about

Shironekosama404 · 2014-11-02T15:23:34+00:00

Because those are male power fantasies. Or at least that is the response I imagine feminism would give.

xNOM · 2014-11-02T17:04:48+00:00

Because noone really cares what men look like. 80% of men are "below average looking"

tazzydnc · 2014-11-02T21:57:57+00:00

Because feminism isn't about gender equality. It's about helping women

NUMBERS2357 · 2014-11-02T20:18:16+00:00

The standard answer is that massively muscled guys appeal to men, not women, and women often like less muscled types. But guys wanna be the super-jacked superhero. And those images are often drawn by men anyway.

Two answers to that I've heard. One is that if you look at romance novel covers, they're all really jacked guys, so clearly that's a thing that can appeal to women (even if it's not the only body type that appeals to them).

The other is, look at Cosmo covers. Those also don't depict what men want, and the magazine is almost completely run by women. Surveys always show that women think men like thinner women than men actually like, same way they show men think women want more jacked men than women actually wany. And Cosmo depicts the women's idea of what men want. And think about how you always hear that women partially dress up to impress other women.

So it may be the case that a jacked comic book or video game guy is to appeal to men. But that's also true of various depictions of women that are blamed on the "male gaze". And you can't really separate a male fantasy from appeal to women, or a female fantasy from appealing to men. They're intrinsically linked. Really, I think that men and women often have exaggerated ideas of what the other gender wants, appearance-wise.

2014-11-02T16:23:22+00:00

There was an outcry over Chris getting buff in resident evil 5, although it was less ''I DEMAND CHANGE!!!'' and more ''PUNCH A FUCKING BOULDER!!!''

gremlina · 2014-11-02T18:27:01+00:00

Shouldn't it be men complaining? Why would women, typically not reading the material, do it for you?

Gawrsh · 2014-11-02T20:35:14+00:00

Complaining is seen as unmanly, therefore an unattractive feature. And if they can't ever complain, they can't tell others of their discomforts.

Heck of a way of making sure men are what they're told to be; at least for the person making value judgments on their attractiveness or lack thereof.

Wargame4life · 2014-11-02T21:19:26+00:00

Because i am not a pathetic Wiesel with massive insecurities, i have no issue with women portrayed as barbie or whatever likewise with he man and big muscles or whatever.

If you have to censor fantasy or fiction because you cant cope you are an appalling pathetic excuse for a person and your inane ramblings are meaningless, heard and considered only by other hysterical idiots.

Ignore the toddlers, no one of any value gives a shit about body gender representation in media.

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