@donaldrump: So... this sort of feels like a bit of a loaded question, and I tend to avoid posting in these kinds of threads because sexism is such a sensitive topic across the board, but your post did make me feel compelled to respectfully disagree on a few of your points.
First, you seem to accept it as a given that sexism exists in games, as evidenced by your question being, "How can we stop sexism in games?" instead of, "Does sexism exist in games?". I think it's important when making these kinds of arguments to determine whether there's a widely-accepted consensus around what you're presuming going into your main argument, and I don't think such a consensus exists fully around sexism in games (though I could be wrong).
If we do accept that sexism exists in games (personally, I'm of the feeling that there are probably sexist elements in games but I don't think it's pervasive and I don't find it distracting or offensive) and move on to your main argument, however, I do still disagree somewhat with a few of your points. You talk about the sexualization of the character in your screenshot and her revealing outfit, but there are examples of the same in male characters as well. I don't know the ratio of revealing outfits on women to revealing outfits on men (I'd wager it's probably weighted more heavily towards women), but I think it's a bit disingenuous to paint it solely as an issue affecting women - sexism affects men and women (likely to different degrees - but it shouldn't be a competition).
You also argue that the character in your screenshot is unrealistic in terms of body composition for a mercenary fighting robots. While it'd be easy to quip that realism in a game about mercenaries fighting robots probably isn't a fair thing to expect, I'd make the hopefully-more-nuanced counter-argument that games, like other forms of storytelling, are fantasies and not necessarily intended to fully and accurately represent all aspects of reality across the board. If the woman in your screenshot were fighting ASIMO or Roombas throughout the game, I don't think it'd be all that fun! I don't personally believe that anybody playing a game where the protagonist is a scantily-clad woman (or steroid-infused man) feels that those characters are the ideal representations of who should combat the game's threats should the fantasy exist in reality. As such, I'm somewhat hard-pressed to find much harm in such depictions, particularly without any hard, extensive evidence - to my knowledge - of a direct relationship between the players of such games and their negative treatment of women or men based on their sex in real life.
As for stopping this - I think the most effective method, if you feel it to be a problem, is to vote with your wallet. Games are a business and companies like Activision, Sega, EA and so forth are in it to make money. If the games they make no longer attract enough sales to make them financially successful, they'll stop making them.
Thanks!
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