Male Behaviour Discussion (Patreon)

Hey guys, this is something else I had in mind that I wanted to discuss.

While rendering for v0.06, I'm thinking a lot and planning for the next couple version of the story, and inevitably we'll be meeting a lot of new male characters. I have all of their "characters"/personalities planned out in my head, but we'll be meeting more in Ali's group, and more after that. And it got me thinking. We haven't really had a discussion revolving around the men in this "universe" and how the average man behaves and acts, especially in regards to women and how they treat them.

For example, so far we have Terry, who's kind of just the nice guy. There's Jedidiah who is old and bit weird, but honestly fairly decent considering he isn't particularly rude and never forces Tiffany to do anything. Nice enough when you compare him to some of the others guys we've met so far. Like Robert and George for example, who are obviously cut from the same cloth (being brothers and all) and they have a kind of rude and repulsiveness to them that's intentional as they feed into the hot girls with ugly-guys type of fetish. They don't really have a problem saying lewd things, exposing themselves, or even forcing themselves on girls if they think they can get away with it. And then you've got Dr. Milburn who I'd say is actually the worst given that he want's to literally lock girls away in his basement and build his own pregslave harem.

Considering all of this, it did get me thinking. In this hyper-sexualised world, where everyone has crazy proportions and the women all dress and (probably the majority) act like sluts, which of these types of men are closest to the average male's treatment of women?

Should most guys in this world be "normal", kind of like Terry, and it's only those hyper-sexualised key male characters that you meet throughout Ashton Lake (most of whom all have ties to F.W.I. one way or another...) that act in an overtly sexual way towards the female characters?

Or, would you prefer it if the average, or even vast majority of men in this world treated the women like sluts, degrading them, treating them like objects, etc, as if it was normal in this world?

Again, not every character would be written in the same way, I definitely have plans for plenty of Male characters who are not assholes and look objectively nicer/more attractive, haha. And certain types of characters are needed for certain roles, etc. I plan on there being some male characters where the female characters take a more dominant role. But it was an interesting thought, and I thought I warranted a discussion to see what you guys think? Since It's good for writing purposes, especially for good "world building"/"lore" reasons that I decide on how I should handle the status quo, of the society these characters inhabited before the apocalypse began...

So let me know in the comments bellow. I'd like to get a lot of feedback on this topic, I will probably do a poll on it later, but I want to see what other ideas people have about how the "normal" male character should act, since I'm still on the fence at this point. And I also don't want to turn people away if they don't like that angle either.

Finally, and I know it probably doesn't need to be said, but just in case anyone gets the wrong idea here, this has nothing to do with how I think women should be treated/depicted IRL, this is purely about a fantasy fetish decision that may or may not improve the "sexiness" of the game-world and the characters that inhabit it for a lot of people. That's why I want to get your opinions. It's all just for fun. Nothing about my writing would really change anyway, it'd just be in relation to future dialogue written for male characters and basically determining if characters like George and Robert are outliers, or are they the norm in this crazy, hyper-sexualised world?

Give me your thoughts on this topic. I'm interested to see what type of world people would ideally want this to be. :)

Again, thanks for your support, patience and input.

~ Jim