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So, after getting many reader suggestions and taking time to process the info, we took a closer look at what people behind the upcoming Wonder Woman movie have to say about the ridiculously mediocre Amazon boob armors which the film is going to feature… And wow, was it a ride of predictable rhetoric and obliviousness to blatant double standard. I sincerely hoped the whole bingo card wouldn’t be necessary, yet here we are.

Indeed, Patty Jenkins, the director, also played the “men are sexualized too” card:

I, as a woman, want Wonder Woman to be hot as hell, fight badass, and look great at the same time – the same way men want Superman to have huge pecs and an impractically big body. That makes them feel like the hero they want to be. And my hero, in my head, has really long legs.

Because that: 

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Has TOTALLY the same costuming priorities as this: 

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With lines like that, maybe Jenkins and the costume designer, Lindy Hemming, aim to be the Mari Shimazakis of Hollywood… Except Diana of Themyscira is not Bayonetta, so “she’s supposed to be very sexy and I as a lady find it empowering” excuses do not really work, even in

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context of character agency. Because Wonder Woman is so much more than “looking like a supermodel while kicking ass”.

As a reblogger, @meishuu pointed out, that Oglaf strip was pretty much what the director said.

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I want to be optimistic and am gonna assume that the crew is contractually obligated to endorse every choice made about the movie, no matter how ridiculous it is when you think about it for more than a second.

~Ozzie

more Female Armor Rhetoric Bingo on BABD

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While we addressed that this amazing article’s header image references the removal of Tracer’s “look at my butt” pose from Overwatch – I wanted to illustrate how it applies to any censorship vs creative freedom “controversy”, not just Overwatch.

Here are some older “vile acts of censorship” in video games which we covered on BABD that match Point & Click’s satirical text just as much:

Similarly, the older article that features a pic of R. Mika, could apply to the Overwatch butt case as well.

Hope this sufficiently summarizes how predictable and repetitive the sexualization defense rhetoric really is.

~Ozzie

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Defying age with a sword: Meenakshi Gurrukkal, Kerala’s grand old Kalaripayattu dame 

“Meenakshi Gurukkal crouched low, sword poised; her eyes unblinking as she faced her opponent in the mud-paved ‘kalari’ or arena. From the tree tops, a mynah’s call resonated in the silence. In a flash she moved to attack, twirling her sword; metal clashing loudly as it made contact with a shield.

At 74, she is possibly the oldest woman exponent of Kalaripayattu, the ancient martial arts from Kerala. She has been practising Kalaripayattu for no less than sixty-eight years – training and teaching.

Around 150 students learn Kalaripayattu in her school Kadathanadan Kalari Sangam, in a tiny hamlet in Vadakara, near Calicut, Kerala. From June to September every year, classes are held thrice a day teaching the Northern style of Kalaripayattu, including “uzhichil” or massages for aches and pains. Techniques have been passed down through generations, written in a palm ‘booklet’, grey and delicate with age. When school term is over, Meenakshi takes part in performances. “Nowadays, apart from teaching, I practise only when I have a show,” she says nonchalantly. This, from someone who on an average performs in 60 shows a year…”

Keep reading at thenewsminute

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Another awesome example of warrior women from the real world, reading through the article confirms that this martial art was traditionally practiced across genders until it was suppressed by colonialism.

Oral folklore in north Kerala, known as Vadakkan Pattu or Northern Ballads, is rich with tales of Kalaripayattu champions. Among them are the Thiyya/Ezhava warriors of Puthooram tharavad in North Malabar- heroes and heroines such as Aromal Chekavar, an expert in ‘ankam’ (duelling) and Unniarcha, a women skilled in ‘urumi’ combat who singlehandedly took on vagabonds to ensure safe passage for women in that area.

Women have always fought.  Just not in bikini armor.

– wincenworks

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Defying age with a sword: Meenakshi Gurrukkal, Kerala’s grand old Kalaripayattu dame 

“Meenakshi Gurukkal crouched low, sword poised; her eyes unblinking as she faced her opponent in the mud-paved ‘kalari’ or arena. From the tree tops, a mynah’s call resonated in the silence. In a flash she moved to attack, twirling her sword; metal clashing loudly as it made contact with a shield.

At 74, she is possibly the oldest woman exponent of Kalaripayattu, the ancient martial arts from Kerala. She has been practising Kalaripayattu for no less than sixty-eight years – training and teaching.

Around 150 students learn Kalaripayattu in her school Kadathanadan Kalari Sangam, in a tiny hamlet in Vadakara, near Calicut, Kerala. From June to September every year, classes are held thrice a day teaching the Northern style of Kalaripayattu, including “uzhichil” or massages for aches and pains. Techniques have been passed down through generations, written in a palm ‘booklet’, grey and delicate with age. When school term is over, Meenakshi takes part in performances. “Nowadays, apart from teaching, I practise only when I have a show,” she says nonchalantly. This, from someone who on an average performs in 60 shows a year…”

Keep reading at thenewsminute

[ Follow SuperheroesInColor on facebook / instagram / twitter / tumblr ]

Another awesome example of warrior women from the real world, reading through the article confirms that this martial art was traditionally practiced across genders until it was suppressed by colonialism.

Oral folklore in north Kerala, known as Vadakkan Pattu or Northern Ballads, is rich with tales of Kalaripayattu champions. Among them are the Thiyya/Ezhava warriors of Puthooram tharavad in North Malabar- heroes and heroines such as Aromal Chekavar, an expert in ‘ankam’ (duelling) and Unniarcha, a women skilled in ‘urumi’ combat who singlehandedly took on vagabonds to ensure safe passage for women in that area.

Women have always fought.  Just not in bikini armor.

– wincenworks

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Medabots: Girls Mission Has Its Own Costume Break System

Medabots: Girls Mission Has Its Own Costume Break System

From Siliconera:

Medabots: Girls Mission is the series’ first CERO C rating, and Rocket Company’s latest info on the game shows us that it also has a new costume-destruction system.

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By filling up your special attack meter, you can perform the “Medaforce” attack. In Medabots: Girls Mission, you can do a “Medaforce Burst” by filling it up to 200%. Additionally, while performing the finishing blow with it, a special command window appears.

By successfully inputting the command on time, you can perform a “Hyper Finish” that blows away the clothes of the opponent. Each girl and Medabot have their own special scenes for this feature.

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The “Ogre Maxim” is a feature that vastly increases a Medabot’s capabilities. This can be used once per Robattle, and the lower the points for parts are, the more effective and longer the effects of it becomes.

The Ogre Maxim increases parts abilities, shortens cooldown time of the parts, and also incerases the Medaforce Gauge. Using this system can turn the tables of the battle.

Medabots: Girls Mission Kabuto and Kuwagata will release in Japan on March 10, 2016.

@whereismywizardhat submitted:

Medabots is a friggin kid’s show.  WHO IS THIS FOR?!

Were you horrified by the weird unlicensed Pokemon-as-sex-objects game? Welcome to the next level!

For those not aware, Medabots was a cute game for children that was adapted to manga and anime from the 90s-early 2000s.  The anime was localized for English speakers by Fox Kids and there’s a significant English fan group who campaigning to get everything localized and Nintendo is re-releasing the games that did get localized on the Wii U

Extra Credits did a great episode on children’s properties getting gritty reboots, but it seems that instead of going with the “gritty” reboot, they’re going with the “porny” reboot – specifically the “humiliate women by forcibly undressing them” route.

Now, before the comments section gets flooded with outrage about creative freedom and this is a Japan only game, I’d like to clarify a few things:

  • While it is a Japanese game still owned by it’s original publishers, it’s not being created by it’s original developers (who basically got cut off in 2010 due to business restructuring)
  • Everything suggests the original developers felt the franchise was appropriate for everyone and they’d love it to get localized, it’s just technical and resource allocation issues that come with having multiple companies involved – not “cultural differences”
  • This is really not “a Japan thing”.  Anyone who was a Thundercats fan as a child and had the misfortune to pick up a copy of Wildstorm’s comics knows what I’m walking about. 
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  • Neither of these are fan productions or porn parodies, these are licensed products of children’s entertainment which apparently felt softcore porn was a suitable addition.

– wincenworks