Friday, November 2, 2007

Video Gaming


Believe it or not there are stereotypes in video games. I'm not too much of a gamer. I used to be, but not so much anymore. From what I remember, the best characters were usually the black or the asian characters. This shows the stereotype of asians being fighters and blacks being the athletic badasses. When I think of martial arts, I think of asians. They are known for their martial art fighting ability and it shows in games. Also I find it interesting that they try to make the girl characters good looking and seductive in a virtual world. They are usually skinny, curvacious, women with tight clothes. It's very interesting to think about stereotypes in video games. I've never thought about it before.

Music Videos


In music videos today, you will often see sexy women dancing around on the video. Quite often they are wearing hardly nothing and scandelously dancing around the artist on the video. I recently saw a brief on television discussing this same topic. Many years ago, music videos were all about the dancing. In the past few years, it has become alot more about sex appeal and not so much about the music and good dancers. In the past, you had to be a good dancer to be in a music video. Now anyone that is well off in certain physical departments can be a dancer. The style of dance is a lot different as well. It looks more like stripper dancers than actual talented dancers.