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  2. List of video games with LGBT characters: 2020s - Wikipedia

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    Male/Female Protagonist and all romanceable characters Bisexual In the original release of the game, players could only date/marry characters of the opposite gender. When the game released in English, German, and French in 2022, the localizers modified the game to make every romanceable character available for either gender protagonist.

  3. Gender representation in video games - Wikipedia

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    Sexualization of female characters is a concern of gamers of all sexes. Players, including male and female players, do not always prefer or appreciate a sexualised design for female characters. In a 2020 survey of 2,006 gamers by Bryter, 62% of female games and 50% of male gamers felt that female characters are often oversexualised in games. [165]

  4. Women and video games - Wikipedia

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    The relationship between women and video games has received extensive academic and media attention. Since the 1990s, [1] female gamers have commonly been regarded as a minority. However, industry surveys have shown that over time, the gender ratio has become closer to equal. Beginning mainly in the 2010s, women have been found to make up around ...

  5. Tropes vs. Women in Video Games - Wikipedia

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    April 27, 2017. (2017-04-27) Tropes vs. Women in Video Games is a YouTube video series created by Anita Sarkeesian examining gender representation in video games. The series was financed via crowdfunding, and came to widespread attention when its Kickstarter campaign triggered a wave of online harassment against Sarkeesian, [2] causing her to ...

  6. List of video games with LGBTQ characters - Wikipedia

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    Reni Wassulmaier is an adult film director. She is assigned female at birth. She undergoes four sex surgeries: female-to-male, then male-to-female, then female-to-male again, then male-to-female again. She is introduced in Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories (2005), as a female radio DJ. In between songs, she drops hints about previously ...

  7. Gender symbol - Wikipedia

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    Gender symbol. The three standard sex symbols in biology are male ♂, female ♀ and hermaphroditic ⚥; originally the symbol for Mercury, ☿, was used for the last. These symbols were first used by Carl Linnaeus in 1751 to denote whether flowers were male (stamens only), female (pistil only) or perfect flowers with both pistils and stamens ...

  8. Commander Shepard - Wikipedia

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    Commander Shepard is the player character in the Mass Effect video game series by BioWare (Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2, and Mass Effect 3).. A veteran soldier of the Systems Alliance Navy, an N7 graduate of the Interplanetary Combatives Training (ICT) military program, and the first human Citadel Council Spectre, Shepard works to stop the Reapers, a sentient machine race dedicated to wiping out ...

  9. Sexism and video games - Wikipedia

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    Media critic Anita Sarkeesian drew attention to sexism in video gaming with her video series Tropes vs. Women in Video Games. Sexism in video gaming is prejudiced behavior or discrimination based on sex or gender as experienced by people who play and create video games, primarily women. This may manifest as sexual harassment or in the way ...