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Study: Sexualization Of Women In Games Doesn’t Impact Women’s Body Image
Long-argued is the theory that embodying a lithe and thin Lara Croft in Tomb Raider might make women gamers feel worse about their own bodies. It’s an argument that women like me have used to justify the importance of adding more realistically-proportioned, less-sexualized characters to our favourite games. Yet according to a new study by…