Men and women are both objectified in games, but they’re usually both objectified to meet male power and sex fantasies. Whenever some of us point this out, there’s almost always some oh-so-offended gamer who rushes in to argue a false equivalency.
If you really think that’s a just a strawman then I direct you to the last time this topic came up on the blog. There were people who couldn’t even accept the proposition that StarCraft depicts female characters in a more sexualized way than male characters.
