What I find amusing is how women can isolate themselves into a group and feel misrepresented when in all honesty EVERYONE but "Good looking, tough white males" is misrepresented, under-represented, and in some cases, UN-represented at all!
For example, how many games depict African Americans or people of color as anything other than the stereotype "Big mass of muscle with that carries a heavy machine gun and moves like a wounded seal, usually voiced by Michael Clark Duncan?"
Why are almost ALL male leads, even in Japanese games represented by some effeminate ambiguous male that looks like a malnourished 12 year old instead of the typical Japanese guy?
Why are gays always ludicrously voiced and ridiculously dressed in flamboyant attire while doubling as the comic relief?
Why are Mexicans always portrayed only in bandanas and always yelling out catch-phrases like "I see you now Puto" and "Aye carumba".
For that matter why are women always portrayed as ass-kicking, masculine action heroes who can usually kick any guy's butt in any given situation even though in reality the physiological advantages of the male body would give most male assailants a tremendous advantage in hand-to-hand combat, and is doubled in such scenarios where the man is some sort of military trained mercenary or fighter. This even extends to television and media where society has become 100% enamored with "lead female" casts where tough as nails gals kick butt and take names as everything from FBI agents to homicide detectives to demon slayers.
On the other hand, the majority of Games tend to be overweight, unattractive by most standards, and introverted shut ins while the characters they play as are almost always svelt examples of the male form, all of them Matthew Mcconaughey clones that double as the cast of MTv reality shows and CW dramas when they arent off fighting alien invasions and getting in gun battles. Yet nobody complains, because when it comes to entertainment, everybody quietly acknowledges that we'd rather escape into a world where heroes are all good looking, athletic, and supernaturally skilled, than to be over-weight, boring, and unable to find a date on the weekends than just more reality.
Just as soon as Naughty Dog releases "Man-boob Boy and the Stretch-mark Princess", or a game where the lead black character isn't a caricature of some hip-hop loving Will Smith sci fi movie knock-off I'll be the first to sign up for the Girl Gamer cause.
