Gamasutra : "Male Gaze And Video Games" :
http://gamasutra.com/view/news/173227/Opinion_Video_games_and_Male_Gaze__are_we_men_or_boys.phpDiscussion on it at RPGWatch :
http://www.rpgwatch.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17501Wikipedia articles on the matter :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Male_gazehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_and_video_gameshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portrayal_of_women_in_video_gameshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_controversy#Portrayal_of_genderEspecially the Wikipedia articles are imho very interesting !
In many games, male characters are portrayed as hard bodied, muscled men, and female characters are portrayed as soft bodied, nearly naked women with large breasts. In addition, Flew also believes that female characters in games are usually portrayed in a narrowly stereotypical manner. Females are usually constructed as visual objects who wait for male rescue and need to be protected, whereas men are portrayed with more power. Such depiction of females in games reflects underlying social ideas of dominance of male over female and themes of masculinity. Although not all video games contain such stereotypes, there are enough to make it a general trait.
I clearly see these stereotypes when I look at the D:OS protagonists ...