BMXXX

Video Games Literature Review

• Unlike the previous articles I read, this one demonstrates how this male dominated corporation can negatively effect the gaming industry as a whole diverting women from it before they ever have a chance to play. The author writes about her experiences with a game called BMX XXX. It is a generic cycling game. You can choose to play as a woman and can customize her as much as you want. The woman customized by the authors husband was a 75lb brunette with D cups that chose her cycling gear to be patsies with a white lace thong. The goal of the game other than winning the races involves things such as picking up prostitutes to deliver to the pimps. Unlike the races where you earn points, if you score high enough on these side missions, you are rewarded with nudity. They offer actual real life footage from a prestigious full nudity strip club in Manhattan as a reward. There is also a two player form that allows for a type of strip poker. The cyclist looses clothes based on points. It is games like this that has led the author to accuse the game designers of being misogynist. It is games like these that discourage women from ever considering the gaming industry as being enjoyable when it is displayed as a way to gain access to porn.
  
  However it would be very one sided if we only looked at this perspective. I have spoken with many women who don't find this to be a deterrent at all. It seems that woman have their own ideals they wish to customize into a female character just as much as men do. These ideals are actually not to far off. The women also seemed to want the female character to have a small waist and large chest in most cases. The only real difference was men tended to prefer blondes and women tended to have their avatars a little less imatiated with some meat on the bones but just as scantily clad. Given the option many women I talked to would dress characters in a way that would portray them as the stereotyped sexy or they would opt for as close to nude as conservation would allow.  
  
  I think this is in large part to the more open ideals of culture that has been cropping up in the past several years. Women have more options than they used to. Much like how there is an increase of 80 year old women getting a tattoo. I'll have more to say on this subject tomorrow. Let's stay on track here. ;)
  
  Girl in a Corset Signing off.