In the book ‘Ways of seeing’ by John Berger it is suggested that woman are sexualised and depicted. This occurs within video games to give the assumed straight male that is playing a certain sense of empowerment, this is thought of as the male gaze.

The male gaze, developed by Laura Muvley, by definition is the act of depicting women and the world in visual arts and in literature, from a masculine and heterosexual perspective that presents and represents women as a sexual object that aids for pleasure of the heterosexual male viewer.

In Johns book he talks about the way both men and women are presented in visual culture, he suggests that both genders entice different ‘gazes’ meaning that they are looked at differently for example from different angles. This happens particularly for the female gender as there is an obvious representation of their bum and an over exaggeration of a hip sway.

Levelling up Quotes= ‘some of the only places where Black characters could be found was in sports games’

‘ the most-active gameplaying demographic is African American teenagers’

Diversity Matters=  ‘Aimed at children affected by cancer’

‘narrative game about multiracial communities living in the city’s urban areas’

Laura Mulvey= ‘One is scopophilia’

‘The determining male gaze protects its phantasy onto the female figure which is styled accordingly’