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GamerGate - Nobody ever said games make you sexist.

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3:50 PM There are no more items. So why does any of this matter? What's the real harm in sexually obiectifying women? Well, the negative impacts of sexual objectification have beer studied extensively over the years and the effects on people of all genders are quite found that exposure to these types of fmages negatively impacts perceptions and beliefs about real world women and reinforces harmful myths about sexual violence. Athena Hollow @athenahollow 6 Hours Ago and very serious. Research has consistently Pffffiffift. Gaters are passing around a study that says games don't make you sexist. Too bad no one ever said they DID. women tend to internalize these types of images and self-objectify. When women We kno begin to think of themselves as objects, and treat themselves accordingly, it results in all kinds of social issues, everything from eating disorders to clinical depression, from body shame to habitual body monitoring. We also see distinct decreases in self-worth, life satisfaction and cognitive functioning. Leigh Alexander @leighalexander @athenahollow @cypheroftyr nope, they're just marketed aggressively toward people who are-sexist already~ 6 Hours Ago But the negative effects on men are just as alarming, albeit in slightly different ways. Studies have found, for example, that after having viewed sexually objectified female bodies, men in particular tend to view women as less intelligent, less competent and disturbingly express less concern for their physical well being or safety. Furthermore this perception is not limited only to sexualized women; in what's called the "Spill Over Effect, these sexist attitudes carry over to perceptions of all women, as a group, regardless of their attire, activities or professions. LINKS & RESOURCES Researchers have also found that after long-term exposure to hyper-sexualized images, people of all genders tend to be more tolerant of the sexual harassment of women and more readily accept r--- myths, including the belief that sexually assaulted women were asking for it, d images and more re The Sexy Lie- Caroline Heldman at TEDxYouth@SanDiego . The Sexual Objectification Spillover Effect .Objectification by Martha Nussbaum How Fantasy Becomes Reality: Seeing Through Media Influence by Karen E. Dill It's time to leave the brothels and strip clubs behind when real victims fuel your narrative by Ben deserved it or are the ones to blame for being victimized In other words, viewing media that frames women as objects or sexual playthings, profoundly impacts how real life women are perceived and treated in the world around us And t Kuchera o Priming, Gender Stereotyping, and Likelihood to Sexually Harass: Examining the Cognitive without even taking into account how video games allow for the more participatory form of Effects of Effects of exposure to sex-stereotyped video game characters on tolerance of sexual harassment Objectification leads to depersonalization: The denial of mind and moral concern to objectified Playing a Sexually-Explicit Video Game ctification that we've been discussing in this episode. Compounding the problem is t media has no real world impact. While it may be comforting to think we all have a personal for eld protecting us from outside influences, this is simply not the case. Scholars sometimes to this type of denial as the third person effect, which is the tendency for people to believe that they are personally immune to media's effects even if others may be influenced or manipulated Paradoxically and somewhat ironically those who most strongly believe that media is just harmless entertainment are also the ones most likely to uncritically internalize harmful media messages despite all the evidence, exposure to others wond, svas: The Proteus . Sexualized avatars affect the real world, Stanford researchers find of sexualized virtuals effect and experience self-objectification via avatars The Afterglow of Construct Accessibility: The Behavioral Consequences of Priming Men to View Women as Sexual Objects Sexism in online video games: The role of conformity to masculine norms and social dominance orientation e affected.

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Rainforest123

Rainforest123

Apr 07, 2015 at 08:37PM EDT

Here's the study that is referenced in the image.

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Lenny Guy

Lenny Guy

Apr 07, 2015 at 10:01PM EDT

This shows that they are either clueless, or have a talent for being wrong.

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