Video games often use violence as a motivator for the plot because that's easy to design around to compel a player forward, but that's also coupled with male dominance and power. When you look at the more well-known male icons (Superman, Batman, James Bond, most of the action heroes played by Bruce Willis, etc.), you see muscles, grimaced faces, and usually a lack of emotion beyond anger. But what lurks behind these masculine heroes and less masculine villains or comic relief characters is a fear of intimacy. In isolation, these character types are not bad, but they're certainly boring because of their overuse. Sometimes there's some overlap, such as the father or husband who is motivated to save his wife or daughter-or to enact revenge after she's died, yet another reoccurring trope. Men in popular culture are confined to a few specific roles: the strong, powerful hero, the possibly nerdy underdog, the more effeminate-looking villain, or the father figure. Tagged: body image, media, sexism, sexuality, harassment These kinds of articles often pay for the more in-depth articles unfortunately, cosplay rarely gets more than a surface-level glance. It leads to a fairly good payoff without too much effort. There are a few reasons for this: online journalism’s fight for clicks for ad revenue has made click-through galleries overused, and it’s relatively easy to take a bunch of hall photos and put them together. At the end of the day, the photos get compiled into galleries, get titled "Best Cosplay of (event name here)," and give the subject little thought otherwise.Ĭoverage of cosplay has stagnated over the past couple of years as galleries of unattributed cosplayers have become popular.
They quickly ask for permission to take photos of the most gorgeous cosplayers, snap the shutter button, check the viewfinder to make sure everything is okay, give a quick “thank you,” and go on their way to the next cosplayer. A handful of photographers scurry around the halls of conventions, sent by their media outlets.
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