Video Gaming's Sexist Elephant in the Room: Japan
155Every other month, some website decries the objectification rife in the video game industry. We can blame most of it on Japan. For all its waning influence, no other country produces games that demean women quite like the land of the rising sun.
As far as I know, most of the images (moving or otherwise) are official productions stolen via google image searches. Most screenshots are my own, excluding what are apparently screenshots of other things I found through google.
See the BBC's coverage of the world gender gap here: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-24650912
Images of hardware, and national flags, courtesy of wikimedia commons (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page)
The pictures of newspapers with strings are from crazywalls.tumblr.com
The clip of the bound spirit in dragon's crown is stolen from the video review of dragon's crown (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu-1FDrxRmU)
Polygon's review of Dragon's Crown can be found here: http://www.polygon.com/2013/7/31/4553958/dragons-crown-review-heavy-metal
DOA footage taken from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umA-Dy2PDSI
Table taken from http://genderedinnovations.stanford.edu/images/videogames_4.jpg
Code geass demotivational: http://kiddtic.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/code-geass-fanservice.jpg
Bravely Default censorship image taken from http://www.zekesnider.com/2014/01/bravely-default-censorship/
Video game quilt found at https://img1.etsystatic.com/000/0/6670679/il_fullxfull.346237943.jpg
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