there is nothing inherently liberating in showing skin
there is nothing inherently liberating in covering up
the liberation lies in the choice
RELEVANT.
Repair His Armor
This blog is dedicated to show and change the looks of ridiculous male armors (and other outfits)…
This cracked me up!
No, really, there aren’t any male characters who wear ridiculous, illogical, revealing outfits! None at all!
/sarcasmOh wait, those are power fantasies, so they totally don’t count. It’s not like men are killing themselves because of the high expectations that society sets for them and that are being reinforced by video games… while feminists completely ignore this issue because these are so-called power fantasies, and also, “lol male tears”
What if I told you that it’s possible to do activism without erasing and ridiculing the problems of the opposite group
Wow, someone is grasping at straws here.
Do you have some actual things to say, or you are just going to do the good old “lol ur stupid end of story” way of arguing?
The day these outfits are seen as “default” and the day we need to objectify and sexualize every male character in ALL games/comics/etc possible, only for the sake of female gaze, then your argument would work. But it doesn’t. These are rare cases of silly armor/outfits. Men do not have to deal with this in every damn game they’re playing. They have something called -gasp- variety!
Your argument would also work if male characters were a minority and rarely ever portrayed as main character, but rather as an love interest or something sexy to look at and ONLY THAT. Or, if they ARE main character – they must look sexy, because you’re supposed to drool at them; not wanting to be like them — and they can’t even be on the cover of their own story.
The day I see more of this I’ll be happy, because then we’re treated as equals. But, for now, we’re not.
– Tica
“I found three shirtless men in video games, look at the male gender being oppressed! Sexism is over, y’all!”
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Related sites! section was updated with http://ria-rha.tumblr.com, collective blog of Repair-Her-Armor admins (which is awesome and totally wortch checking out).
Anonymous asks are disabled from now on. If you want me to share your enlightened opinion on female armor, do it signed with your username, dear.
Why would you give up all the credit you deserve for your words?
For a while, I’ve been trying to find tutorials on drawing and designing armor, but I can never find any. Do you know any good armor designing/drawing tutorials I can use?
I’ve looked through my drawing resources tag, and I haven’t found much in the way of armor tutorials (there’s a few that talk about what breasts look like in armor, you might want to check those out). There was one submission that linked to a blog post by the submitter that talked about designing armor, but the post has since been removed. :
So, I’m asking here. Does anybody know any good tutorials/resources for drawing and designing armor? Since, it’s this blog, if there is anything specifically for women’s armor, that would be pretty good for future reference too. 🙂
Of course, I run a whole blog about female armor!
Let me recommend my armor design and positive examples tags.
Also check out list of related sites, especially armor references on Art-And-Sterf, Repair Her Armor, ria-RHA and Women Fighters in Reasonable Armor.
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lizzywantstolookthroughtags asked:Hi, I just found this blog and I think it’s the coolest thing ever. I was curious: What’s your opinion on skimpy armor being an option, but not a requirement?For MMOs and the like, having a choice between skimpy and practical armor would be great! I should stress though that the option should be available on both genders.For games with a set outfit, however, characters should dress in a way that fits their personalities.-StaciWait, that’s an intereting idea if it was also installed in battle mechanics and you could get different accomplishments for wearing different sets of armor. Sexy armor would make you esaier to be hit, but would allow to easier gain rewards for accomplishments like “belly of iron/steel/titanium” (“get hit in the stomach 20/50/100 times but continue fighting without healing”). Protective armor however would allow you to gain accomplishments like “Stop trying to hit me and hit me!” (get hit and have armor take all the damage 100 times”).
Somebody needs to make it happen. Just to have “hardcore gamers” going through every outfit possible to get all accomplihsments.
I like your way of thinking 😉
In-game accomplishments based on the kind of outfit you’re wearing sound awesome!