For my review I am looking at a music video about a game. In this music video, women are shown as the type from the "male dreamworld" (as explained in the movie Dreamworlds 2). The music video ties in the playing of the game to the hot girls dancing in the club. This music video was later remade with a slightly different beat. In the newer version, it focuses more on the hot girls dancing than the game itself. In my review, I want to show how women's sexuality is used to make the game more appealing.
Original music video:
Second edit of the music video:
The first video had more to do about the game DotA. But throughout the video, they start to show scenes of night clubs and beautiful women. They relate playing a video game to being at a night club with beautiful women. This sends a message to people watching (mostly men) that this game is awesome. Like we learned in Dreamworlds 2, women are used in the media to attract viewers with their sexuality. They will wear skimpy clothes and act like men want them to.
The second video shows more about beautiful women than it does about DotA. What makes this funny is that the guy is singing about the game DotA, meanwhile the woman is dancing on the screen doing her thing. The game is rarely shown in the music video. This change got the attention of a bigger audience than the first. I've had my own friends tell me that they like the second video better because you get to see more of the dancing woman.
Most of the media out there has women displayed as a sexual image. It is used to sell to men, and show women at a young age how they are seen. In this video game intro, they show men as big muscular warriors and display women with skimpy outfits where they emphasize their bodies.
In those scenes. A woman is portrayed as a stealthy assassin, one who sneaks up and attacks someone when they are unprepared. The man however goes into battle with big weapons. One guy even has his arm chopped off, and he still fights! Gender images are shown in this intro clip. Men are the dominant warriors and women are shown as not being able to fight fair.
Video games and their music videos reinforce the media's view on genders. In our society, men are supposed to be displayed as warriors and women as dancers or related to something sexual. It is how our games and such sell.
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First I just want to say that I really did enjoy reading your blog and it was very insightful. When reading through racial formation there were a lot of really good things that I picked up on and didn’t really think about in reading myself. You mentioned that..
"Racial stereotypes limit our expectations of a race to their “classified” stereotypes. For example, the Model Minority Myth about how all Asians are good at math."
I really like how you said that it limits “our” expectations because that is so true. I believe stereotypes such as Asians being good at math or even being “bad drivers” are all generalizations and doesn’t allow us to open ourselves up to get to know races as people but rather as “their stigmas.” Like you stated racial formation has changed a lot from the beginning of when people first tried to figure out “race” ,first with science and then even with politics. These were both very wrong not only were they discriminating against other races but they were also creating false ideologies as well as prejudices, and the ideology was coming from the race that wasn’t being examined. This can also go back to when we discussed how the white male heterosexual remains invisible because they are so busy examining all the “other.” When the white heterosexual male Christopher Columbus and all of his crew brutally killed and ran out the Native Americans, this is another example of them being invisible and us as a society examining the “other”. When we are taught history in school it is very systematic and even offensive to know that we aren’t allowed to make our own judgments on history because they are made for us. The white dominant majority chooses to discriminate and alienate other races as if they put all these practices into places for us to benefit from and we are supposed to give them some sort of praise for this. I completely agree when you say that this history should not be hidden or denied and rather should be recognized as the Native Americans being victimized.
In looking at your review I am actually really interested in what your final project will be. Its funny to me how the general stereotype of computer gamers are white nerdy, younger males who want to get the hot chick through this fantasy land. I feel like in this scenario my dad is the token black man who LOVES computers and computer games. Its funny when we talk about the audience because I even look past him as an option, but he fixes computers for the state for a living, and enjoys every new game from CSI to Counterstrike. It will be interesting the see where else you take this and what other results you find.
Your blog was very easy to navigate through and once again a pleasure to read. A couple suggestions that I might have would just be to maybe say where you stand on each issue or ways you could relate and also I didn’t see any links, that would be something good to add because it would bring something from the outside..into your blog and tell us a little bit more about what you are passionate about or what speaks to you!
Heather
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