Women in Video Games

Why are all video games geared towards men when 41 one percent of women play. You almost never play as a female character. In a rpg the type of are women are usually the love interests, the sweet cheerful character and the mysterious women. You do occasionally get a character that does not run into these stereotypes but it not often. You almost never have to rescue a captured male. When you do get a female main character in any genre it usually is a very exaggerated version to please men. Women are always more sexualized then men in video games because they use them to sell for men what brings me back to my question why do games usually targeted for males instead of females

Newsweek Cover

I found this image on feministing.com . It is the cover of Newsweek magazine stating what women want in lipstick. The article inside goes on to talk about Sarah Palin Politics and how it would be better for her to be in the supreme court rather then vice presidents. But I think that the cover dilutes the story. It says what women want and the article does not go into what women want at all. Jessica states her opinion to what women want “Not to have articles about their political interests represented by a fucking tube of lipstick”. Do you agree with me or her . Do you think that this add is sexist

Women on Cbs Crime S hows

Of all the network tv shows Cbs has the most crime show. Almost all the crime shows have women in them as Csi Techs, Cops, and other investigators .There are all being portrayed as strong modern women . What they don’t look at is how many times these women have been attacked, held hostage, of raped

This is a tally of all the female Characters on Cbs crimes shows and what has happened to them
CSI
Caherine :date Raped
Sara Sidle: abducted
CSI Miami
Calleigh Duquesne; targeted by a killer, forced off the road, kidnapped
Alexx Woods: held hostage by a killer
CSI Newyork
Stella Bonasera: attacked and held hostage
Aiden Burn:kidnapped and murder by a rapist
Lindasy; nothing
Cold Case
Lilly Rush : held hostage and shot
Crimanl Minds
Jennifer "JJ" Jareau: held hostage
Penelope Garcia: shot
Elle Greenaway:shot Left because she could not handle the job
NCIS
Ziva David: nothing
Abby Sciuto: nothing
Jennifer Shepard's: shot , if she was not shot she going to die of a brain disease
Caitlin Tood: held hostage shot by the same person a year later
Without a Trace:
Samantha Spade: held hostage and shot, beaten
About half of these women needed to be rescued in the end. So even though these are supposed to be strong women they need to be rescued. I know it a crime show and people might get into these situations by how many men on these shows die or need to be rescued