Gender Issues

Based on my experience, I do feel that males and females have different styles of learning and communicating. The difference I feel is that sometimes men and women change their roles for a multitude of reasons. I’ve known several men who take on female roles of learning and communication and females who take on the male aspects. I do not entirely know why this is but I presume it is because of how they were brought up mixed in with who they modeled themselves after (even though modeling is generally a female way of learning, males can still take on this trait).

I do agree that females have been portrayed differently in video games (and in film and comic books). Most women are (at least classically) hypersexualized. Just take a look at Jessica Rabbit, Taki from Soul Calibur, Mystique from X-Men, etc. Males in turn are usually handsome and extremely muscular as opposed to the majority of real men (or real women from above). Everything in these mediums is very picturesque but I don’t necessarily think that is a bad thing. Being a female who got into video games, comic books, etc. at a very young age – it was this beauty that initially attracted me to them to begin with. Talking with other women who are into the same types of things as me, that is usually what they say got them into it too. I do agree that I initially dislike the extreme hypersexualization, but I do like the idealized beauty in video game/comic book/tv/film women. I know that without having ever taken my Full Sail University Online course in Ethics & Psychology, all of the women I mentioned above I never really cared for as a first impression. I didn’t even notice certain er…traits with Taki from Soul Calibur (my favorite was always Sophitia) but I knew that I didn't like her comparatively, I just could never put my finger on it. Now I have a better understanding of why.