For my games cover I made a masculine game that leans toward the male stereotype. This goes with Tori Mori‘s analysis of female, feminine and feminist with her representation of 1987 in my games cover I have a samurai which they are mainly male as it was forbidden to have female warriors as women were mainly seen as child bearers as this highlights the patriarchal society that has been implemented for century’s.

furthermore my games cover has a samurai with a katana and wakizashi typically known to be used in the Edo period when japan was in a 250 year civil war. this highlights violence, blood, gore. this can be associated with Laura Mulvey’s notion of the male gaze my character is there to be seen and objectified. Although, the notion of the male gaze is quite distinct due to that it relates to the sexualisation of the dominant signifier, which is not the way i want my character to be seen as.

however, I feel that masculinity today is wider know but associated with violence and confrontational as where femininity is not the same. I think my product is a reactionary representation of masculinity

In my opinion this is a negative representation of masculinity as I personally think masculinity in an aggressive term is un-healthy and something young males should aim towards. If I was to do this again I think I would base it off of the Onna-musha they were female samurai who fought alongside the samurai in feudal japan. therefore skipping out on the overarching stereotype of the male masculinity and embracing equality of male and females