My lady perspective - I am a 51 year old married woman and I enjoy having young, sexy characters to play as. I enjoyed watching my male Commander Shepard's ass while playing Mass Effect and in Fantasy games I enjoy finding the most sexy outfit I can find for my female characters. It is fantasy. I don't want to run around in a game as a pudgy Lara Croft with sagging tits and fat ass or Sam Fisher with a beer belly.
I think some women in the real world have worn just as revealing, if not more revealing outfits than the top example shown, Victoria Secret ads, Music award shows - Miley Cyrus for an example.
I love this post. I agree 99.99%.
I think the issue with it all, is choice. Octavia Spencer's Emmy speech could almost be copied word for word into this topic.
Videogames are an idealized world, so why not make them all hot? Then lets sexualize the men too!
The images from fighting games posted of men in skimpy outfits were the exception, not the norm.
If 2/3 women in fighting games are world class gymnasts, and blade experts with double D tits, doing backflips in two pieces of duct tape, then why can't I play as a bloke with a 12inch wang wearing nothing but nipple clamps and a c***-sock?
Who wants to play as a saggy titted fat woman?
Who wants to play as a bloated balding middle aged man? None of us did. Until we played as Trevor in GTA V. He was f***ing awesome.
As Octavia said, its hard to win/be represented, if people don't write the roles for it.
(And as for the Miley comment, she was branded as "out of control" and a hot mess. Promotes #freethenipple and sexual equality, she's a train wreck. Borat does it, comedic moment in history.)