bikiniarmorbattledamage:

bikiniarmorbattledamage:

yondamoegi:

dreamsofjade:

hoganddice:

captkylej:

themaskednegro:

bowiesnippleantennae:

whatarefrogs:

JonTron just linked this image as an example of how men are stereotyped and exploited in video games I’m literally laughing out loud holy shit

for anyone who still doesn’t get it notice the background please

Fun fact: topless slave girls are COLLECTIBLES in this game.

See, the problem is that the guys objectification is empowering. You’re empowered because you’re taking advantage of the other objectified people.

Also, can my followers who like guys please comment on whether or not they find this guy sexually attractive?

nah, too much muscle. Muscle is hard… I want something soft to rest my head on! 😛 the only guy that i’ve ever been attracted to who has looked like this is Jason Momoa. 

I personally like muscles. I adore them. They fascinate me.

But this Conan doesn’t look sexually attractive. He looks like he’s gonna kill me – he’s intimidating and forceful. I’d better stay away from him.

If he looked like this

I’d say “Well, hello sexy.”

Objectification and sexualization don’t really depend on character’s looks, even if they use it to objectificate and sexualize. They depend on character’s purpose and agency.

A girl character can run around with her titties exposed but still could be not sexualized.

Just my 2 cents

It got better.

– wincenworks

Time to throwback these illustrative examples of the difference between male power fantasy, male objectification and female power fantasy (which also matches the theme of powerful barbarian ladies that this week’s reblog from @justinhubbell​ embraced).

Please always remember, especially when responding to our blog or submitting a post here, that not every muscular shirtless dude counts as an example of a “sexy man” in the same manner as our negative examples count as “sexy” women. 

It’s not the amount of skin showing, or how big the character’s boobs or muscles are that makes them objectified. Framing of a body is what decides whether it’s sexualized or not. And

@yondamoegi‘s drawings really drive the point home by contrasting the original game cover with two subversions of its double standard premise.

~Ozzie

more about false equivalence on BABD

Console-free Camping

magic-in-every-book:

powells:

If you like to play The Last of Us, then try
Rot & Ruin by Jonathan Maberry

If you like to play Beyond: Two Souls, then try The Girl With All the Gifts by M.R. Carey

If you like to play Call of Duty: Black Ops (Zombies), then try
World War Z by Max Brooks

If you like playing Grand Theft Auto, then try
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

If you like playing Sid Meier’s Civilization, then try

A Game Of Thrones by George R. R. Martin

If you like playing Final Fantasy, try playing
Fullmetal Alchemist by Hiromu Arakawa

If you like playing Mass Effect, then try
Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff


If you like playing Alice: Madness Returns, then try Madness So Discreet by Mindy McGinnis

If you like playing Halo, then try
Starship Troopers by Robert A Heinlein

If you like playing Portal, then try
House Of Stairs by William Sleator

If you like playing Mario Kart, then try

The Lovely Reckless by Kami Garcia 

If you like playing Dark Souls, then try
Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake

If you like playing Life Is Strange, then try
We Are Okay by Nina Lacour

If you like playing Stardew Valley, then try
How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff

If you like playing Fable, then try
Young Elites by Marie Lu

If you like playing Borderlands, then try
Velocity by Chris Wooding

If you like playing Dishonored, then try
Airman by Eoin Colfer

If you like playing The Oregon Trail, then try
Under a Painted Sky by Stacey Lee

If you like playing the Elder Scrolls series, then try
The Naming by Alison Croggon

If you like playing Red Dead Redemption, then try
Vengeance Road by Erin Bowman

If you like playing Bioshock, then try 
Dark Life by Kat Falls

If you like playing Fallout, then try
Razorland by Ann Aguirre 

If you like playing Assasin’s Creed, then try
The Way of Shadows Night by Brent Weeks

If you like playing Dragonage, then try
Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir

If you like playing The Legend of Zelda, then try
Graceling by Kristin Cashore

If you like playing Until Dawn, then try
Ten by Gretchen McNeil

If you like playing Sonic, then try
Maximum Ride by James Patterson

If you like playing Overwatch, then try
Bluescreen by Dan Wells

If you like playing Uncharted, then try
Passenger by Alexandra Bracken

If you like playing Pokemon, then try
Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them by JK Rowling, and Newt Scamander

If you like playing Mario Party, then try
Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

This is amazing!!

i-hate-vegans:

If you publicly and unreservedly condemn the actions of Nazis in Charlottesville and elsewhere, including everything from quiet hate speech to vehicular terrorism, can you please reblog this post.

I think a few friends, a few followers, every Jew who happens across this post and my own heart could do with knowing that there are more of you out there than there are of them

Yes. Also, I just found out these fuckers are coming to my city, and I want to go protest, of course, because that’s bullshit, but I’ll be deathly afraid the whole time. Also, I don’t know when it’s happening.