Tomb Raiders: The Sexualization Of Female Characters

When it comes to clothing, it’s pretty self explanatory why most people would think that all women are sexualized. “Seventy percent of female characters had abundant cleavage and eighty-six percent had low necklines”(Morawitz). Although there have been strong female lead characters in games, like Lara Croft in the Tomb Raider series, the extremely sexualized look causes, “the powerful role female heroine is diminished by the emphasis on physical female appearance” (Morawitz). Due to this, depiction of women as “hyper-femininity” is directly compared to men being shown as “hyper-masculine” in video games. As shown in a study by K.E. Dill and K.P. Thill, “Over sixty percent of female characters were portrayed as sexual in video game magazines