The Problem With Men in Modern Video Games

Specific_Detective41 · 2026-02-02T03:15:15+00:00

It's not only limited to video game design. Consider how men's clothing is displayed at retail stores versus women. Women's clothing takes up at least 2/3 of the space at retail stores. Mens fashion is dull, drab and quite uniform compared to women's clothing.

My_Legz · 2026-02-02T12:46:15+00:00

For mens clothing that is part of Great Male Renunciation where men started to wear practical, often military, uniforms instead of their normal colourful and decorated clothing. It's so normal in the west now that no one seems to remember that it wasn't always like that

DeterminedStupor · 2026-02-04T01:31:55+00:00

I have started paying more attention to menswear recently, so this video came at the right time, thank you! I appreciate that she doesn’t really blame men for not dressing more adventorously. The world of meanswear is more fascinating than I expected, so it’s good people are talking about this.

TheSnesLord · 2026-02-02T16:34:05+00:00

since Anita Sarkeesian, female characters/women are now purposely uglified in Western video games to further the feminist agenda, via denying the "male gaze"; preventing "objectification" and "sexualization" (of female characters only of course); and for "diversity", "inclusion" and "representation"

not only that, but we have been seeing an epidemic of censorship of attractive female characters in East Asian video games to cover them up in the localization processes

not to mention the smugness of those who are in favour of the uglification and censorship on social media; the same mob who attack attractive female characters but at the same time drool over the likes of Leon Kennedy and Sephiroth

these things only happen to female characters and never to male characters

therefore the nerve of the OP and the YouTuber to question male character design, when straight men have been having their hot female characters/women taken away from them for well over a decade now in entertainment media and events

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BloomingBrains · 2026-02-15T07:59:15+00:00

Its so sureal being a femboy in today's world. I am constantly seeing male characters I can't relate to because I don't feel they represent me, only to be told that "it's okay when men are depicted all the same way" (that being hyper masc and generic muscle dudes with short hair) because its not objectification, it's a male power fantasy.

Excuse me? It's not MY power fantasy. Men are not all the same.

Meanwhile, they act like looking beautiful and feminine is somehow NOT a power fantasy as well. But it very much is, because I'm jealous of them too! If I feel that way as a guy, there are certainly at least some women who do as well.

It's bullshit how most character creators allow you to be a muscle girl, but don't give you the option of picking the female model w/o breasts.

Gender roles for thee, but not for me.

TheSnesLord · 2026-02-02T16:29:26+00:00

female characters/women are now purposely uglified in Western video games to further the feminist agenda, via denying the "male gaze"; preventing "objectification" and "sexualization" (of female characters only of course); and for "diversity", "inclusion" and "representation"

not only that, but we have been seeing an epidemic of censorship of attractive female characters in East Asian video games to cover them up in the localization processes

not to mention the smugness of those who are in favour of the uglification and censorship on social media; the same mob who attack attractive female characters but at the same time drool over the likes of Leon Kennedy and Sephiroth

these things only happen to female characters and never to male characters

therefore the nerve of the OP and the YouTuber to question male character design, when straight men have been having their hot female characters/women taken away from them for well over a decade now in entertainment media and events

TheSnesLord · 2026-02-02T16:32:07+00:00

female characters/women are now purposely uglified in Western video games to further the feminist agenda, via denying the "male gaze"; preventing "objectification" and "sexualization" (of female characters only of course); and for "diversity", "inclusion" and "representation"

not only that, but we have been seeing an epidemic of censorship of attractive female characters in East Asian video games to cover them up in the localization processes

not to mention the smugness of those who are in favour of the uglification and censorship on social media; the same mob who attack attractive female characters but at the same time drool over the likes of Leon Kennedy and Sephiroth

these things only happen to female characters and never to male characters

therefore the nerve of the OP and the YouTuber to question male character design, when straight men have been having their hot female characters/women taken away from them for well over a decade now in entertainment media and events

kmthrowaway_ · 2026-02-06T10:20:32+00:00

I personally don't see a problem with minimalist fashion and anti-consumerism.

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