The hilarious front line in the tragic war against ridiculous female armor
It’s like this image was designed for a class to pick apart and discuss all the differences between the depiction of the male and female characters.
In fact, it looks like they spent more time trying to make them different from each other – hence why here armor is accessorized with frills and his has spikey bits.
Also she appears to have used the fabric that was supposed to be her pants for a shoulder decoration.
– wincenworks
Battleborn is currently available as an open beta on Playstation 4 – and while there’s still issues with some of the designs it is kind of amazing to see a game released with this kind of actual variety in female characters. Particularly since every one of them is given the same level of personality as the guys.
Now if we can just get Ambra to get something that’s more priestess robes and less novelty cocktail dress. She is a lot more tolerable as an exception though rather certain other games where it’s the standard and pat themselves on the back for having a couple who are different.
– wincenworks
(edit: Shayne is included here largely due to the game’s use of the female pronoun, however the concept artist encourages people to feel welcome to embrace alternative interpretations of Shayne’s gender. h/t: @makorutledgebuttavenger)
Disney is apparently going to experiment with a Cloak and Dagger series on Freeform. Since that’s a channel aimed at kids, let’s hope they go with a costume like Dagger’s appearance in Ultimate Spider-man (lower image), and less like her traditional “WTF How Does That Work?” costume from the comics (top image).
– wincenworks
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:
Has TOTALLY the same costuming priorities as this:
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
the
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.
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
Had to check how much would the boob belt Hippolyta score. Not surprisingly, a lot!
Amazons just can’t catch a break with amazingly bad costumes…
~Ozzie
