Tag: commentary

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Time for another @pointandclickbait appreciation post! This time, Shit We Have Personal Experience with edition!

~Ozzie

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kaldannan:

thefingerfuckingfemalefury:

wintergrey:

garrettbrobinson:

I got real petty over on the Facebook page and IT WAS GLORIOUS.

This is me, going to check out Legendary Books now…

Publisher: We think that the way the fantasy genre treats women is problematic so we’re going to try and do better

A Fool: If you don’t like it why don’t you make your own!

Publisher: That

That is literally what we just said we are doing

@bikiniarmorbattledamage I think this is right up your alley. Ha!

Yes, it is! Thank you for sending us this 🙂

@garrettbrobinson‘s apt and continuous snark here beats even the famous concise answer Star Wars Facebook gave to the dudebros “concerned” about Captain Phasma’s feminity.

Please everyone read the article and all of those comments, it’s quality content. 

It’s also massive evidence that certain kind of people (who believe in such logic as “instead of having an opinion about a product, go make one yourself!” or “shirtless men = hypersexulized”) just plain do not care to acquaint themselves with an article/blog/video if it looks even vaguely feminist before replying to it.
We find it pretty amazing how they’re typing preemptive, uninformed responses to something they didn’t even read and, at the same time, expect its author to prove their own credentials.

~Ozzie

more commentary about rhetoric on BABD

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wardenmcpherson:

misanthropicmessiah:

ALICE AUAA

@bikiniarmorbattledamage I thought this was from a game for a second.  I’m so desensitized!

Honestly the first hint to me that this was couture and not a video game was the lack of unsupported balloon boobs.  The second clue was that the costume seemed actually physically possible.

That and the metal undies aren’t a thong, because real models have real skin and hence need to fear chafing.

So despite how impractical haute couture is… it’s still ahead of video game armors.  This is the world we live in.

– wincenworks

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…when one male character criticizes a woman for going into battle with her shirt hanging open, which is really the snake eating its own tail of video game sexism in a game where a significant portion of its speaking female characters are similarly and impractically exposed.

Arthur Gies, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Review: Off the path

A relevant follow up the question of how does one satirize bikini armor, specifically that one does not do it by blaming a fictional character for the clothing chosen for her by the creator.

Particularly not if one is going to then normalize it within their media, which has normalized this excuse to the extent that it appears on the rhetoric bingo card.

– wincenworks

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…when one male character criticizes a woman for going into battle with her shirt hanging open, which is really the snake eating its own tail of video game sexism in a game where a significant portion of its speaking female characters are similarly and impractically exposed.

Arthur Gies, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Review: Off the path

A relevant follow up the question of how does one satirize bikini armor, specifically that one does not do it by blaming a fictional character for the clothing chosen for her by the creator.

Particularly not if one is going to then normalize it within their media, which has normalized this excuse to the extent that it appears on the rhetoric bingo card.

– wincenworks

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The Impossibility of Satirizing Game Art [NSFW!]

The Impossibility of Satirizing Game Art [NSFW!]

A really good piece by @wundergeek​ on the topic we brought up before: the difficulty of making satire look like satire, instead of just straight-up reproducing whatever it’s supposed to comment on.

Because the important thing to remember about satire is this: what makes something successful satire is how it is viewed by the audience, not what the author or creator’s intentions behind the creation were. When you create art, you don’t get to tell people how they will respond to it. They bring their own feelings and experiences to the table, and the best intentions in the world won’t make offensive art any less offensive.

Indeed, there’s a delicate balance between recreating parts of the thing you’re parodying and adding the edge of self-awareness which communicates that your aim is humor and criticism. And there’s no edge in just wink-wink, nudge-nudge sleazy “ironic” tone. 

The key to good satire is a twist that distinguishes deliberate ridiculousness from clueless one. Otherwise, there is no difference between the two products and the audience won’t recognize the author’s intent.

Big thanks to nomotog for directing us at it.

~Ozzie