isadora-the-explorer

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“Wait.. this is from the same game as this!? Dammit creepy marketing…”

I’m confused.. what is bad about this?
And in your other post about this you seemingly mock women/men who do work in Cabaret “I’m sure it’s just a co-incidence that all the others got actual occupations” like what.. are you even saying here.

Femme fatale != cabaret performer. Femme fatale is not an occupation. Femme fatale is a trope based in the fear that every beautiful and flirtatious woman is secretly planning to seduce you so that she can destroy you and take your stuff.  It is insulting to cabaret performers and female performers in general to reduce them all down to such a thing.

Cabaret Hostess, Showgirl, Cigarette Girl, Barmaid, Musician, Can-Can Dancer, Stand Up Comedian, Waitress, Lounge Singer, Magician’s Assistant, Stage Kitten, – these are all jobs linked to cabaret that a woman might have.  Standing on stage in a sexy outfit while one guy looks on is not any of these jobs or any other job.

Imagine they introduce the quartet like this:

A beefcake bad boy, smouldering loner, charming show off and a cabaret hostess.

Also imagine she’s dressed in similarly practical clothes instead of a fragile costume with high heels (x)

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Now ask yourself: Why did she have to have a “sexy” job in the first place? Seriously, why can’t she be say? A mechanic like Grace Wagner was?

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From the start of the 1920s to the end of the 1940s (The Golden Age of Burlesque) was a really interesting time for changes in roles for women in America and many other nations? Why would you want to only (badly) remember (and misrepresent) the showgirls?

I mean, look at the line up from the franchise that started the four survivors vs zombies games.  Look at Zoey (college student and horror movie junkie) and Rochelle (assistant tv producer and Depeche Mode fan):

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Video games and media in general need to get out of this habit of making sure they put in at least one “every man” character, then some additional options for men and limit the inclusion of women to “the sexy lady” with no further consideration. There is nothing wrong with sexy ladies or ladies who make a profession out of being sexy – there is a huge problem with creators choosing to represent women only as such regardless of suitability.

– wincenworks

isadora-the-explorer

replied to your photo

“Wait.. this is from the same game as this!? Dammit creepy marketing…”

I’m confused.. what is bad about this?
And in your other post about this you seemingly mock women/men who do work in Cabaret “I’m sure it’s just a co-incidence that all the others got actual occupations” like what.. are you even saying here.

Femme fatale != cabaret performer. Femme fatale is not an occupation. Femme fatale is a trope based in the fear that every beautiful and flirtatious woman is secretly planning to seduce you so that she can destroy you and take your stuff.  It is insulting to cabaret performers and female performers in general to reduce them all down to such a thing.

Cabaret Hostess, Showgirl, Cigarette Girl, Barmaid, Musician, Can-Can Dancer, Stand Up Comedian, Waitress, Lounge Singer, Magician’s Assistant, Stage Kitten, – these are all jobs linked to cabaret that a woman might have.  Standing on stage in a sexy outfit while one guy looks on is not any of these jobs or any other job.

Imagine they introduce the quartet like this:

A beefcake bad boy, smouldering loner, charming show off and a cabaret hostess.

Also imagine she’s dressed in similarly practical clothes instead of a fragile costume with high heels (x)

image

Now ask yourself: Why did she have to have a “sexy” job in the first place? Seriously, why can’t she be say? A mechanic like Grace Wagner was?

image

From the start of the 1920s to the end of the 1940s (The Golden Age of Burlesque) was a really interesting time for changes in roles for women in America and many other nations? Why would you want to only (badly) remember (and misrepresent) the showgirls?

I mean, look at the line up from the franchise that started the four survivors vs zombies games.  Look at Zoey (college student and horror movie junkie) and Rochelle (assistant tv producer and Depeche Mode fan):

image

Video games and media in general need to get out of this habit of making sure they put in at least one “every man” character, then some additional options for men and limit the inclusion of women to “the sexy lady” with no further consideration. There is nothing wrong with sexy ladies or ladies who make a profession out of being sexy – there is a huge problem with creators choosing to represent women only as such regardless of suitability.

– wincenworks

dudeitsmarcus:

Deathstalker wins for most ridiculous female armor I’ve ever seen.

Sadly by today’s video game standards this would be average… however it’s kind of impressive that they managed to get the armor to stick on to a real person at least long enough to shoot the footage.

Of course, back when Deathstalker was made (1983) this signaled it was a ridiculous R-rated sex and violence fantasy… today it signals they want to sell the thing in Walmart.

– wincenworks

A stroll through our archive reminded me of this post, so I figured it’s high time to bingo the Black Widow!Thor.

As pointed out earlier, seems like costume change for a new wielder of Mjolnir is optional for male characters (neither Captain America nor Superman get one), but obligatory for female characters. And somehow the result is always some fashion sin with lots of focus on boobs and legs.

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We’ll get to Wondy!Thor sometime later, we promise.

~Ozzie

Lady… err… Lady from Shadow Hearts: From the New World has a truly perplexing outfit… it’s unclear if at any point there was thought put into what her outfit was for, if it had a message or anything other than how to avoid needing censor bars.

Certainly nothing about her outfit screams “Malice” to me… except perhaps malice against the audience who have to look at that outfit.

– wincenworks