noknightinarmor – Bikini Armor Battle Damage

@noknightinarmor submitted:

What class is she? Horrifically Overpowered Titninja?

I love playing Pathfinder, but I don’t understand why someone chose this for the cover…

So I looked up what that book is supposed to be… and it’s a “What not to do” kind of guide. Fair enough, I guess?

Quote from the publisher’s description:

We’re not suggesting any GM should allow these feats into a campaign. In fact, we advise against it. Seriously, the whole product is called “Horrifically Overpowered Feats,” which seemed like a dead giveaway that we’re not encouraging anyone to use these rules.

Is the cover also supposed to be a dead giveaway to this being intentionally ridiculous? ? Because straight-up recreating something bad/nonsensical does not yet satire make. Satirizing sexist game art is actually really hard, as @wundergeek taught us.

This cover is up there with Macho Women With Guns and Special Forces as something supposedly parodying sexist depictions of warrior women media by pretty unironically reproducing such depictions.

~Ozzie

noknightinarmor submitted:

A colouring book of women who participated in the US Civil War I bought at Gettysburg, PA when I visited ages ago. As you can see the women’s uniforms looked like the men’s with the optional addition of a skirt, and Cpt. Tompkins wore her jacket and sash over her dress.

I wanted to add some of these images to this post as well, because the OP is just plain wrong.

Thank you for sharing these. I had a look into these and it appears Amazon has a few copies for sale – Barnes and Noble too. It looks like Peter F Copeland has done a number of books like this. Including one which specifies Heroes and Heroines of the American Revolution.

Awesome stuff.

– wincenworks

edit: Important note regarding the sixth person presented in this photoset, the soldier credited in the book as “Jennie Hodgers (alias

Albert Cashier)”:

likeironlies

replied:

Albert Cashier was a trans MAN, not a woman. Please don’t erase his existence by claiming he was a woman, not a trans man. He lived his whole life before and after the war as Albert. He was buried with honors as Albert.

Thank you for that clarification, likeironlies!

~Ozzie