good post.It sets a bad precedent in an industry and even more largely in a world that values women largely on appearance.
I'm just gonna quote myself quick (sorry):
Problem with getting men to be "less thirsty" is that...well, they fight really hard when you try to take that away from them. :/ (There's still a lot of uproar that surrounds banning 'booth babes' from whatever venue)
Then we get torn between women "allowed to dress how they feel" and men, in the creepiest way possible, supporting those notions to see more tits . Problem is, by and large, women are still the victim's of sexual harassment. Women WANT to be free, but it's incredibly difficult to do so without being yanked into being modest or apparentlyharassedthe cause of our faults for being good-looking or some shit.
Generally, appearance-wise, people ask significantly less of men.
IGN Men:
Like your average geek :P
I don't even mean to target IGN here (TV shows love pairing average men with incredibly attractive women). Really this is a problem in a number of circles. Problem too is we have trouble disengaging from media (at worst we don't think it affects us at ALL); we take these "standards" set very seriously, we put attractiveness on such a pedestal that (1) your average person cannot achieve, (2) targets women more frequently, and (3) has not changed women's standing in society to still be frequent victims of sexual assault/harassment which comes a lot with this sort of idolization of beauty and women's appearances.
We buy it, and therefore perpetuate and reify these standards significantly more than we realize. This isn't to "bash" good looking people, but rather an insight to a problem that exists in a web of media and representation of codes and images we like — and that it can play a very harmful role in what our society normalizes.
Here's Polygon's podcast, The Polygon Show, which has an all female cast.