I chose Mario on Mario Kart. That means my idealized body image is a stout man with a comically Italian mustache.

Player characters with exaggerated sexuality doesn’t mean much in and of itself. Just as a boy might choose the super macho character with impossibly huge muscles and a square jaw, so too might a girl choose the hyper feminine character that she thinks is cute.

In those egregious games where the character is poorly masked soft porn, I doubt many girls would pick the character