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eldritchgender:

i am actually So Angry at the forum topic about female armor being “too concealing” lmfao

women don’t exist for you to ogle even in video games! shut the fuck up! 🙂

So… against my better judgement I went looking and I found this thread. In which the author proposes he’s not satisfied with the many existing options in clothing (even though you can literally just wear the armor on top and tell the game to make it invisible) and nobody understands what he’s asking for.

Probably because what he asks for shifts constantly as he gets more and more negative feedback from people pointing out how absurd his request is.  The two pics on the left are early examples of what he’s asking for, the two pics on the right are modifications to pics of armor he’s done to illustrate what he means.  See if you can spot any differences:

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This is not to propose that he’s an evil mastermind that planned this all along, but rather that ridiculous armor, particularly ridiculously revealing female armor, has become so institutionalized in pop culture that people literally do not see the absurdity of these requests or even consider that maybe the whole premise if flawed.

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So general unhelpfulness of thinking that not on the same level of Tera Online is going to reassure anyone; it’s pretty terrifying that we live a world where people genuinely think all armour should show off skin.

– wincenworks

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Lost Odyssey

actonthat submitted:

Bleh.

I was coming of Fable and feeling pretty good about playing a female character that could look and be whatever, however, and whereever I wanted, and needed a new RPG.

Oh, this Lost Odyssey thing is supposed to be pretty awesome.

Hey it even looks like there’s a chick on the cover. Let’s take a look at the characters…. oh.

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God, this requires a bingo. This is one of the most ridiculous costumes I’ve ever seen.

The other women on the main cast don’t fare much better, although nothing is as WTF as that.

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This one looks relatively bearable… until you see it from behind.

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Here, have a random boob window!

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And just to make us feel all fuzzy inside, here’s a sexualized child:

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I decided not to buy the game.

The most horrifying thing about this game is that it was published by Microsoft exclusively on the X-Box 360, that’s the forerunner to the X-Box One – a console that’s for the WHOLE FAMILY to enjoy!

While checking up on this game I didn’t find a single mention by a professional reviewer about the costumes or the worrying sexualization of a child – but I did find a refreshingly honest review by a user on MetaCritic (of all places), here’s the most important part:

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Well said.  Well said.

– wincenworks

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Hey there! I’m a woman planning on cosplaying some Monster Hunter Armor next year. I am going to go with the Barioth Blademaster armor. Is it wrong of me to be planning the male version of the armor I like? I picked one with my favorite aspects of the two different blademaster female sets, as well as the fact it has more coverage. I know women cosplay as male characters all the time but I’ve never actually seen a woman cosplaying male armor that isn’t associated with a specific character.

There absolutely nothing wrong with wearing a the version that you like best and/or feel most comfortable in regardless of your gender.

Fev is an awesome female cosplayer and prop maker who we’ve featured on Bikini Armor Battle Damage wearing their cosplay of the male version of Nordic Carved Armor from Skyrim.

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The 501st Legion has female storm troopers who wear generic (assumed male) costumes, and some members recently made a custom suit for a little girl who was being bullied over her love of Star Wars:

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Cosplaying is about two things:

  • Making/wearing something you want to wear
  • Having fun

That is not to say there aren’t some definite no-nos (blackface, cosplaying inherently offensive characters, cosplaying something raunchy at a family event, etc), but I can absolutely nothing wrong with wearing a non-character specific costume intended for a gender other than your own.

– wincenworks

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fandomsandfeminism:

kfcdoubledown:

It says something about feminism when a character having rocket-powered high heels in a video game is a hot-button issue, like this is the most important thing going for them at the moment

And these are the same tools who post shit like “gonna crush the patriarchy with my six-inch heels” too, you’d think that with Smash’s mostly-male roster they’d be in favor of it

You know there’s a difference in actual, real life women choosing what they wear, and a video game character being presented by writers in a certain way, right? 

And no one is saying that Samus’s ridiculous, impractical, and laughable costume change is the BIGGEST MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE EVER. But it is, obviously, a VISIBLE one and offers a widely accessible platform to talk about the double standard of video game costuming. 

Emphasis mine.

Gotta “love” all the people who suggest that by caring about things like video game character design feminism apparently lost its priorities (and somehow, shifted all focus from any other issues, cause heavens forbid the movement cared about multiple things at once!).

It’s totally not the other way round, right? That we see the actual impact that popculture products like videogames have on the society at large and do our best to spread awareness of it!

~Ozzie