I'm not even sure how much porn has to do with it. I'd bet anything that 90% of these people would not care about plain-looking female characters if they hadn't been marinating in a massively funded, far-reaching right-wing media sphere that's constantly telling them that the scary minorities and woke DEI conspiracy are out to destroy their precious video games.

True, but part of why women have an easier time identifying with male protagonists in video games is that we, especially when we're on the older side, didn't have much of a choice for most of our lifetimes. Women (and in fact all marginalized groups) are still used to not being represented, white cishet males aren't. They've been socialised in a media landscape that revolves entirely around people intended as role models or self inserts for them. This is why they're now at the point were even the option to play as something else than a stoic one liner hyperpatriarch has become triggering to them.

I feel like the bottom panel should have one normie guy who hasn't had his brain rotted out

Still crazy that people don't have the hots for Aloy after watching her do some crazy gymnastics before impaling a robot with a spear.

Now if only any of these new games were actually good....

grand theft auto is probably the least """"woke"""" game i can think of

bit idea: nofap guy who begrudgingly plays Satisfactory and Slime Rancher to heal his dopamine. Has a panic attack while playing Stardew Valley as a gorl and proposing to one of the male romanceables.

People blame porn but I'm not sure I buy it. Women in porn are actual women, hot women but real women. I encounter women who are attractive enough they could probably be porn stars almost daily. These weirdos ideal woman is so hyper sexualized it doesn't seem connected to reality at all. Honestly I think anime and hentai is more to blame.

these incel losers are literally telling on themselves so hard. "i cant relate to a woman" believe me, we all know you can't relate to a woman.