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[โ€“] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

You're objectively wrong. Unless you've never played GTA before, how can you seriously suggest a bikini model in a GTA game is anything but not sexualized? The shots of the women walking around on the beach or raving are not sexual because they're just existing (though maybe that'll change once we hear the dialogue), but the ones in the screenshots are twerking and posing seductively. And if you seriously think twerking is not sexual, especially in the US, then you're probably going to suggest that the strip club in the trailer is not sexual either. And yes, we are objectifying the character because that's literally the point since the beginning of GTA. Just because you don't feel anything when you see the girl doesn't change the nature of the game. I feel nothing when I see Marilyn Monroe, so that means she wasn't sexualized, right?

[โ€“] LaughingLion@hexbear.net 5 points 11 months ago

i didnt say strippers in a strip club arent sexual why would you imply that

im saying a woman in a really normal swim suit just standing there is not sexual shes just there like looking at the sky or whatever

the woman twerking on the car is doing this wild thing but no, i dont think twerking in and of itself is inherently sexual

and no i dont think just because its in a video game its automatically sexual either

sexualization is as much something in the mind of the viewer as the intention of the person who is dressing the way they are or doing the things they are (or the artist of that model) and in this case as most others people here are sexualizing this stuff themselves as it may be done by the artists