It’s Sunday again, where we take our bingo cards and examine popular culture to assess it’s worth. Is popular culture full of rampant sexism at the expense of common sense, story telling and artistic merit? I’ll let you decide!
But the answer is yes.
– wincenworks
(And remember, if you’ve played Bingo we’d love you to post them on Tumblr and tag them with “female armor bingo” so we can find them)
If only this kind of behaviour was limited to MMORPGs…
– wincenworks
I absolutely ADORE how the first image uses crappy photoshopping to accurately convey the absurdity of how… um… eclectic the MMORPG visuals and ideas tend to be.
Sexy is not bad. Stripping is not bad. Wearing sexy boots is not bad. You know what is bad? Pandering is. Being a lazy designer at the cost of catching a wider audience is.
A bounty hunter who runs over rugged terrain does not need stripper boots, she needs something with treads and function that can *gasp* still be sexy. I can picture a hybrid boot design that is feminine but rugged, functional but badass.
You know what conveys things like “boosters” and “power” and “high jump”? Springs, coils, energy cells, treads, jets… you don’t have to be literal but you also might want to show, not tell, what a prop does.
