Hello,
It's come to my attention that LoL, like many video games, tries very hard to objectify women through it's portrayal of females ingame. I would say that from my experiece, this game is particularly bad.
I'd like to see what other people think about this topic. I for one am sick of the portrayal of the female champions in LoL as *** objects and not much else. Sure, I'm a guy, and I enjoying attractive females, but being stick thin, wearing nearly nothing, having giant boobs and talking in a sultry voice is not what I consider attractive. I'd far prefer the females in this game to be portrayed in a way which made me interested about their character, as many of the males are.
I feel there is little point in me listing examples, because nearly all females in LoL fit this theme. Something I have noticed is that out of the non-human champs, nearly all are male, except anivia, who is portrayed as old, elise, who fits the theme except in spider form, and annie, poppy, lulu and tristana who are portrayed as children. All the other non-humans are male. This just shows that Riot wants to be able to portray unique, interesting champs without having to slather them in sexual imagery as they seem compelled to do with their human females.
No only does it make the females characters in this game less fun to play, I'm sure it also discourages girls from playing this game. I've heard that only 10% of LoL players are girls. Maybe that would be higher if there were cool female characters they could relate to as there are for us guys? I'm pretty sure the current portrayal of girls ingame would just be degrading and make them feel inadequate. Because of course the portrayal of female characters in LoL is completely unrealistic. I'd be curious to hear from any female players here about this issue, if there are any...
Disclaimer: Yes I'm a heterosexual male.
League of Legends Community
| View Poll Results: Does it bother you that girls in LoL are portrayed as *** objects and nothing else? | |||
| Yes, it bothers me |
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35 | 18.72% |
| I don't really mind/notice |
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72 | 38.50% |
| Nope, I like it. |
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80 | 42.78% |
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