Sudden drive to make Video Games P.C.?

[wooly_mammoth]

Why is it not okay to demand that artists align their art and therefore an equally big part of our culture to our values? And since when has that not happened?

I don't know Hus, your questions make me wonder if there was a cry of outrage in the Hellenistic world at the idealized physiques sculptors depicted in their works. Maybe my view is too simplistic, but I simply can't see this issue. Whenever something like this comes up all I see is someone with a serious lack of something better to do with his/her time bashing away at others for no reason. Don't like ripped shirtless guys, bikini mail or gay minotaurs? Well, just don't go there, it's not like you are being forced to.

Ironside mentioned anorexia. I'm pretty sure this problem was around way before video games became really popular (or had bikini-mail, for that matter). If you want to point the finger at someone for this, I'd guess it's the fashion industry, but I haven't seen people put as much effort into bashing that as into getting extra clothing on a chick on some videogame box that doesn't sell more than some hundred thousand copies (at best, and mostly male consumers anyway). Faces photoshopped to perfection on various commercials you see on tv or strewn on posters through the cities hit a much larger audience than some half-naked chick in a videogame, but again, I don't see people bashing that in any consistent way.

Examples like this really make me question the motives behind social justice warriors and advocates of political correctness in videogames. I can't believe they're trying to solve a problem by attacking where it doesn't exist.