Gaming and Women

So I haven't posted much since I've been out of school but I've finally felt inspiration strike. Today I'll be posting on females in games. As many of my friends know I love to game. In fact, until my job starts that's most of what I've been doing since I got out of school for the summer. A lot of games get flack for having poor representations of women. This includes but is not limited to, women being overly sexual in appearance, not having any options for playable female characters and not having any strong female characters or only having females who need to be rescued.
In some cases I would agree that yes, there are problems with the representations of female characters in games but in others I think it's just feminists looking for something to get angry about. The main topic I'll cover is women being overly sexual in appearance. Some games that have been accused of this are games such as the Resident Evil series, The Mass Effect series and Tomb Raider. Of course this is a very short list compared to what is out there. I would just like to ask, why is this a problem? Feminists every where are constantly complaining that women aren't allowed to live freely as sexual beings but then when they see it they complain about women being objectified.
The fact is that yes, these games do have women with noticeable figures but these characters are also very strong female characters who kick some serious butt. They run around shooting up the bad guys and winning without a problem. In games like Mass Effect there are also several opportunities for female characters to shut up men that try to be chauvinists. I know that someone will say this so I'm going to go ahead and make this point before the argument is started. No, these games don't show main characters that are out of shape or larger. Why? Well because most of them are military women or incredibly athletic women that would be in shape if they were performing that way in real life, so it makes sense. I think women of different body types do have a place in gaming but in games depicting active and athletic or military women it wouldn't make that much sense for them to be out of shape.  Why is it a problem that they appear in-shape and good looking? According to feminist theory women should be able to be as sexual as they want and as strong as they want without being judged, so I would argue that the female characters in these games are embodying that ideal.
To me as long as the female characters can be just as strong as the men and they aren't in need of a romantic entanglement to get through their missions there isn't a problem. Honestly, I think that most people that do complain about the appearance of female characters in games (that are showing them as strong and reliable) need to get off of their high horse. There is nothing wrong with a strong woman having a figure and looking good; and if you say there is you are going against feminism.