It's really rather depressing. There's no way around it. Girls have to specifically ask for "boy toys" and boys get laughed at if they dare ask for "girl toys." I only hope that it won't be like this forever.
Everyone else has already kinda summed up my thoughts on this. Being "girly" is considered so shameful that even a fair number of actual girls don't want to be seen that way. And yet, if a girl is too "manly" she is frequently viewed with scorn - I guess because her "primary purpose" in society (y'know, being pretty and sexy as an object of desire for men) is being compromised.
Plus, you know, admitting a problem means there IS a problem, and nobody ever wants to do that. So we're "perfectly fine," when in reality there are people still dealing with this shit daily.
Or, if you look at something like Bayonetta (I've not played this, mind, but I've seen clips that have made me cringe), the female main character is so overly sexualized that it draws men in and makes them say, "HEY A GOOD FEMALE MAIN CHARACTER" when really it's just ass and crotch and boob shots a lot of the time.
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Or, if you look at something like Bayonetta (I've not played this, mind, but I've seen clips that have made me cringe), the female main character is so overly sexualized that it draws men in and makes them say, "HEY A GOOD FEMALE MAIN CHARACTER" when really it's just ass and crotch and boob shots a lot of the time.
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