Hitman Absolution: bringing equality to the gaming world

2012-06-09T17:47:54+00:00

The hooker-dominatrix-amazon-nuns are a bit over the top.

I do think movies and video games need more female "bad guys" to mow down, to counter the disposable male stereotype. As it is we get action heroines wiping out hordes of male villains. I'm not a big player of shooter games, but back in the day I played Perfect Dark on the N64 and there was a level where all the enemies were female. That was unusual then and still is now from what I can see.

Darkling5499 · 2012-06-10T05:43:08+00:00

As much as people like to point out how over-sexualized women are in video games (and they are) and how women in video games are always "perfect", when was the last time you saw a fat man with acne as the main character, not some perfectly sculpted Adonis as the main character?

Grapeban · 2012-06-09T15:55:51+00:00

Oh, the Hitman thing. Look, it is misogynistic, here's why (and I'm copying what I said on another website):

"My issues with the Hitman trailer are two-fold, but firstly I will point out that I have no problems with the nun thing from a religious perspective, I'm not religious. Though I see why a religious person may have had an issue with it.

(Note: Issue 1 omitted, it's more about the game than misogyny, therefore irrelevant)

Issue 2: The blatant sexualisation. I've not got an issue that it's women who're being killed, I've got an issue that these supposedly practical assassins from a supposedly pragmatic and sensible organisation are dressed in the least appropriate outfit for assassination. Why? Because it's sexy, that's what viewers like. God forbid these women be treated like human beings doing a job like everyone else in the bloody universe including 47, nah, they've got to be super sexy. Hitman has always had a problem with this I feel, Blood Money had a lot of female characters in sexy outfits for no other reason than hey, they're women, let's make them sexy, that's what we do with women right?

As for the double standard issue, I don't think it exists. If it were men in suits being beaten up, that wouldn't be a problem. If it were men being beaten up who approached in Pope robes and then dropped them to reveal gimp suits or whatever, well, A) that wouldn't happen, which is part of the reason why the trailer was offensive, this kind of thing doesn't happen to men, and B) people would call that out as fucking ridiculous."

The real issue here is that you have hyper-sexualised women, for no reason other than women in games are always hyper-sexualised, in a way men aren't.

And yes, men are unrealistically portrayed in videogames, but if they had been male assassins and they were big, tough, burly dudes, at least that would make sense, it makes some kind of sense for a hit squad to be strong and muscly, it makes no sense for them to be dressed like strippers.

Edit: Oh, and additional thought, why is this posted here? Just because we're in favour of men's rights doesn't mean we need to deny that misogyny exists, or even stick to fingers up to feminists. This has nothing to do with the rights of men.

rottingchrist · 2012-06-09T16:11:15+00:00

I don't think it's as misogynistic as it is indicative of an inability to see women as anything other than eye-candy (I don't think that qualifies as "hatred of women", just fetishization).

Now I understand sexualizing murderous women. It's not unreasonable to believe that a female assassin may employ her sexuality as a weapon. But that isn't the case here. The scene shows a group of women in obviously very restrictive clothes in a setting where nobody sane would choose to dress like that. It is blatantly out of place and stupid. It kills immersion as well, especially since the Hitman games aim to be so clinical about violence. I doubt the people who made the game would have male assassins take to the street within the game in matching head-to-toe leather gimp outfits.

I really want to believe that the "hurrrr naked gurlz!!" demographic is not numerous enough for this to be a viable marketing strategy, especially since these days you can get your naked women fix much more easily from the tonnes of free porno online instead of needing to buy a videogame with idiotic scenes like this. But I feel disappointed.

2012-06-10T17:46:44+00:00

I don't understand the point of it all. Videos games are fantasy, a pure art form where you can do what ever you want into a entertaining product.

Yes i can say characters look farfetched from reality but look at photos and some animated video and you'll notice the same thing. I extremely doubt you'll change the industry cause you might really alienate customers away from games. I'd say leave it be cause its not hurting anyone. If you wanna focus on something that real try to go towards hollywood and the modelling world where they try to make a world that unrealistic to normal people.

Title	Hitman Absolution: bringing equality to the gaming world
Author	MRAfront
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Date	June 9, 2012 3:04 PM UTC (14 years ago)
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