Leftists Want Video Games To Reflect Their Own Mediocrity

There’s this weird sentiment I keep seeing where critics and activists alike argue video game characters, especially female ones, are unrealistic looking and that it’s causing great anxiety amongst the player base that doesn’t see itself reflected in the virtual world.

As an example of this, Dove — yes, the Dove that makes soap — released a video claiming to take a stand against overly sexualized and unrealistic women in video games. The video begins with a female warrior fighting a massive monster. She’s fit and powerful, the picture of good health.

But it’s all a lie. It’s revealed the entire scene is just a set, and when the warrior goes back to her dressing room to remove her armor, we learn she’s morbidly obese, and her costume was hiding her true and beautiful body.

After some brief reflection, the warrior returns to set without her armor, proud to show the real genuine her. The video ends with a real picture of an incredibly unhealthy-looking woman with the tagline, “Let’s make virtual beauty real.”

Implying that obesity and a general lack of care for one’s appearance is beautiful is par for the course for wokeies — that’s nothing new. The left thrives on getting people to stop caring about putting effort into themselves.

But it’s the other part at the end of the video that I find more frustrating. The video claims 74 percent of girls feel underrepresented in video games, according to a study conducted by Dove. The implication