What is a graphic depiction?

Depiction of women in video games. How are you going to convince me not to play them?

• https://fourthwave.quora.com/Depictions-of-Women-in-video-games I'm a boy of 16. I like watching these videos, playing these games. They serve as my sexual fantasy. Hey, I am not harming anyone. This is just for my own private pleasure. I treat all the women in real life with respect. How are you going to talk me out of this? (This is an imagined question. I am just taking a point of view of a young man who likes such depiction. I myself am against such depiction.)

• Answer:

  Play them, don't play them, it is your choice. I'm not planning on preventing you doing anything. But don't imagine you are not harming anyone. Because that simply isn't true. You are. You are endorsing - with your money, the unrealistic depiction of women at the expense of their humanity. It is the very definition of objectification. Every dollar you give to an enterprise that produces such material, rewards its behaviour. This is why there are multiple games in the Dead or Alive: Xtreme Beach Volleyball [1] series. They released the first one as a 'look-see' and were encouraged by the money people gave them, so they released more and more versions on the same theme. Each one normalises an unrealistic expectation of how women are. This is a bad thing for society. You are also harming yourself. This objectification has a way of calcifying your mind, the more you are exposed to it. Everyone is susceptible to brainwashing, to normalisation of things that are not in fact normal, if they absorb them frequently enough. Where do you think all these freaks and bigots that cannot relate to women come from? You think they were made that way? No-one is made that way. Something made them like that. I've actually met, in real life, people who cannot relate normally to members of the opposite sex. It isn't pretty, not at all. In fact it is horrifying, albeit in a sort of car-crash fascinating way. Something made them like that. Every male has a mother, many have sisters, daughters and aunts.You say you treat women with respect. With respect, that is level one. Why not level up* to treating them like people? I don't expect you to pay this answer the blindest bit of notice, I remember the invincibility and arrogance of youth (I still have the arrogance at least). But I repeat: do not imagine you are not harming anyone, including yourself - it isn't true. * I'm hip to all the lingo. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_or_Alive_Xtreme_Beach_Volleyball