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It’s not that I mind seeing breasts everywhere; after all, I have two of my own that I quite like. But it’s disheartening that breasts are often considered more interesting than the people they’re attached to – as if we’re an afterthought compared to our body parts.

My latest at the Guardian US on how women are reclaiming their racks. #sorrynotsorry (via jessicavalenti)

Exactly my thoughts whenever I see just another design focused on cleavage window or boobplate, while serving no practical function or informing us nothing about who wears it.

~Ozzie

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Tumblr hypocrisy

fandomsandfeminism:

spookywompus:

fandomsandfeminism:

sweet-cherry-doodles:

It’s funny that when a video game or video has an attractive female that guys gush over, it’s oppression
but if there’s a video game or video with an attractive male that girls gush over, it’s just fan-girling. 
For example- Guys gushing over Bayonetta= Oppression!! MEN ARE SO DISGUSTING! AUGH! They only want BOOBs n crap! 
Girls gushing over a freaking cartoon skeleton man in a single video and making an entire fan-base because his hair overnight = Just having fun. 
I propose that both of those situations are just people having fun. 

Ok, but ONE of those types of fun involves sexual objectification that makes many women uncomfortable.

The other involves a skeleton with cool hair who is not being sexually objectified.

There’s a difference.

Also skeletons are not frequently objectified and devalued in the real world. Skeletons are not the victims of violent crimes, sexual or otherwise, due to the dehumanization of that objectification.

While objectification by itself is a problem, its informed by its real world existence; no media exists in a vacuum, and the real world treatment of women is largely what makes objectification through media such a touchy subject.

Agreed. When skeletons with cool hair are routinely subjected to institutional discrimination, maybe we’ll care more about “girls gushing over them” on the internet.

Meanwhile, the sexual objectification of women has been tied to real world issues facing real actual women.

“Tumblr hipocrisy”? OP, you keep using that word, I don’t think it means what you think it means.

Bolding mine.

~Ozzie

After I read this I went desperately searching for this awesome skeleton with cool hair that women were apparently gushing over.  I looked and looked. I asked friends… nobody seems to know about Skelonetta.

Now I have to live the rest of my life knowing that somewhere out there there’s video of a skeleton that has hair so cool that’s it’s apparently comparable to the super spectacle that is Bayonetta… and I may never see it.

Thanks OP.

– wincenworks

Edit: So I’ve been told by many of our beloved followers and one of my loveable geek friends that they know who the Skeleton with cool hair is.  Brace yourselves for the pandering-on-par-with-Bayonetta:

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Yeah… this is what OP was raging about.

– wincenworks

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A thought from BABD:

We really don’t need you to explain us that Blizzard is a bit better than they used to when it comes to female armor.

We wouldn’t talk about their games if the problem wasn’t still prominent enough to be, well, a problem.

Also: since when the fact that something problematic was done in the past make it any less problematic? Aren’t we allowed to point at a thing and say “it is not okay now and it was not okay back then”?

~Ozzie

Every time someone assures me World of Warcraft is better now… I have a look to see how it looks today.

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Then I remember how Nintendo has been increasingly interested in having Samus play out of her badass armor, Elder Scrolls went from mostly okay to comical failure.

– wincenworks

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