Moving to back to video games, the closest thing to an actual male fighting f**ktoy might be the pansexual Qunari character "The Iron Bull" from Dragon Age Inquisition. Bull even says that he picked his own name because it makes him sound like he's not really a person. The Iron Bull is an optional party member in Inquisition who brings with him a mercenary company called the Chargers and a transman second-in-command named Krem. This is really the only meaningful function The Iron Bull has in the game, so I'm not sure why the two characters couldn't have been combined, since Qunari consider anyone who fights as a warrior to be male. Otherwise, Bull exists mainly to be the lone two-handed weapon warrior character among the Inquisitor's companions, as well as a Qunari racial token. He can be removed from the game completely without affecting any element of the campaign story.

The Iron Bull hits on almost every character in the game who doesn't totally creep him out. He spends much of the game shirtless, and his "romance option" storyline is almost purely sexual. He insists the Inquisitor needs rough sex, causing me to nickname him "Fifty Shades of Grey Man." He also mercilessly sexually harasses the female warrior Cassandra, playing fast and loose with Qunari gendering conventions whenever it lets him be a pervert.

He's merciless in his attempts to emasculate the gay mage Dorian in some weird form of pick up artist routine. He fetishes redheads and has orgies with the kitchen staff. He even refers to sexually pleasuring himself while thinking about killing dragons. What he doesn't do is make his own critical decisions about the lives of his mercs. He fights, and he f**ks. And he talks about both a lot.

In short, if he were a female character, groups like Feminist Frequency would likely have gone nuts. He's not, and that makes all of this acceptable. And I'm not saying it isn't. Flawed characters are fine. But men are allowed freedoms as characters that women aren't because of the increased scrutiny of female characters.

If we believe, as feminism states, in the equality of men and women, then all characters in video games of all genders must be judged based on the same criteria. If we keep placing extra burdens on female representation and feminine morality, we are reasserting patriarchy. (As an aside, I don't think that patriarchy is good for men either, especially men who don't conform to gender norms.)

Feminist Frequency's women-exclusive tropes create a system of separate, more restrictive rules that limit creative freedom for female characters. After the FFT I really don't know how they're going to get six more videos out of the Tropes vs. Women series, because there aren't very many female video game characters they haven't stomped on yet. Women in Refrigerators maybe? That's the only thing I can think of. (Note: I started writing this before the announcement of the new series, including one that looks at masculinity. I admit, I'm dreading that one if it's the same quality of analysis as Tropes vs. Women.)

Feminist Frequency also constantly confuses sexual attractiveness that is an element of a character's purpose for sexual attractiveness that is the entirety of a character's purpose. At no point do most of the female video game characters labelled FFTs ever actually have sex, meaning that the issue isn't the activities they engage in, but how they look. In order to make the FFT label appear to fit, Sarkeesian and other feminists who apply the terminology to video game characters cram and jam facts into unnatural arrangements and outright ignore other elements. They apply this term to Bayonetta, Lara Croft, and who knows how many other perfectly decent female characters who happen to have distinct costumes and large boobs.

It benefits no one to slap demeaning labels on women who choose to accept and embrace their own physicality. Around the seventh grade, girls start to lose their connections to their authentic selves, sacrificing that to survive as part of a socially restrictive, competitive group. Discouraging direct confrontation, ie: aggressiveness, is part of that loss of self. Furthermore, body shaming is a very real thing that voluptuous women encounter: we don't have many role models who are valued for being intellectuals or leaders, after all.