The amount of sexualisation of female characters in video games disgusts me
I've recently gotten into playing Marvel Rivals with some of my friends and mainly play as Cloak & Dagger and occasionally Invisible Woman, and as much as I enjoy the art style for some of the other characters, something about how skintight their costumes are and how the other players react to them makes my skin crawl. I've had other players walk up to my characters while we're waiting in lobby and try to "hump" them, I've also seen crass comments in gamechat talking about how fine their asses are.
And it's even worse with the new Invisible Woman skin they released, even the guys I play with have been obsessed with it. But when I looked up the backstory, the skin came from an issue of the comics where she was psychologically manipulated and she later liked the experience to being assaulted. And now guys are being thirsty to a skin that arose from this?? I flatly told my friends that I have no interest in this skin but they just keep telling me about how excited they are about it, how the devs are making so much money, how well they know their community to release skins like this...
I know that in game I can't really do anything about it especially since the problem is so rampant, but all this rage has to go somewhere, that's why I needed to rant 😭