It used to be said that women in video games had unrealistic features — usually ones that certain types of young men with, ahem, unrealistic expectations about the female body might be drawn to.
This was a legitimate concern. So, what did the video game industry do? They fixed the problem … by giving women unrealistic features that all men generally wouldn’t be attracted to unless their beau ideal of femininity is Janet Reno.
Quite frankly, we could go on all day about how women in video games have gone from one extreme to the other, but there’s one feature in particular that highlights the absurdity of it all: the jawline issue.
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