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My second paper in english 120 was all about gender sexuality, and the over sexualization of women in video games. For this paper I pulled some of the more prominant women in video games to show the contrast of sexy, and overly sexual.

Lara Croft was my first example. In the Tomb Raider games she is a great spy who is a treasure hunter that runs around in booty shorts and a tight tank top that show off her figure. I started thinking about her as she was. She is this great spy, but she runs around half naked. Why is that? In searching the web I kept coming across the same sort of answer, "She has to look hot for the guys who play the video game", and "Her sex appeal draws more men to play the game." So I stopped and thought about it. Are all video games with women playing the lead over sexualized so that men will want to play those games. The answer is no, but in most cases it is true.

So in my paper I just tried to come up with a few different games that portrayed women as these unrealistic sexual beings, and then I found a few to contrast where women may or may not be the lead in the game, but they are not oversexualized.

For this paper I used a website called wix, and used pictures to tell a story and to express what my argument was through pictures, and short phrasings. The cool editing and graphics that are on wix enhanced my paper and allowed what thoughts I had on certain things be conveyed a little better.

I hope this style helps with your paper!! =D