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Tidy-Up Tuesday #9

This week’s tidy-ups:

pyranova , the original poster of last week’s throwback, asked us to give Dr. Nerdlove, the site that posted the original article, a shout-out. The post itself was an excerpt from a second article in the site’s long-running series of writeups about male privilege (parts: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7).

Dr.Nerdlove in general is a site worth acquainting oneself with, rife with good advice for the socially awkward and critical of many social problems which are still rarely challenged among the geek community.

A reader asked what would we say to a woman who wants to cosplay Quiet.

We’d say “Go for it, you beautiful lady! Unlike Quiet, you are a human and make your own choices! We admire the craft, ingenuity and confidence that goes into cosplaying scantily clad characters.”

We’ve been also asked to post more about Pokemon. Unfortunately (or rather, fortunately), unlike with Digimon, we can not find a way to connect the franchise to our blog’s topic.

Things we covered before:

~Ozzie & – wincenworks

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Tidy-Up Tuesday #9

This week’s tidy-ups:

pyranova , the original poster of last week’s throwback, asked us to give Dr. Nerdlove, the site that posted the original article, a shout-out. The post itself was an excerpt from a second article in the site’s long-running series of writeups about male privilege (parts: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7).

Dr.Nerdlove in general is a site worth acquainting oneself with, rife with good advice for the socially awkward and critical of many social problems which are still rarely challenged among the geek community.

A reader asked what would we say to a woman who wants to cosplay Quiet.

We’d say “Go for it, you beautiful lady! Unlike Quiet, you are a human and make your own choices! We admire the craft, ingenuity and confidence that goes into cosplaying scantily clad characters.”

We’ve been also asked to post more about Pokemon. Unfortunately (or rather, fortunately), unlike with Digimon, we can not find a way to connect the franchise to our blog’s topic.

Things we covered before:

~Ozzie & – wincenworks

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Tidy-Up Tuesday #7

This week’s points:

Please keep in mind this blog’s main concern are female warriors. If you see some other type of female character gratuitously sexualized in media, consider whether it’s a more appropriate submission to our related blogs, like eschergirls​

When you see people trying to defend boob windows with claims that kunoichi (they mean female ninjas) flashed their boobs to dazzle opponents – these people are literally citing ridiculous anime and Japanese grindhouse films as historical documents.  By the same logic, cars in America explode when they bump into any object.

As an expansion of this, if you see people citing the espionage technique known as the “honey trap” (or “honey pot”) as valid in combat – you can safely assume they have no clue how seduction works.

Things we covered before and got asked about recently:

– wincenworks & Ozzie

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Tidy-Up Tuesday #7

This week’s points:

Please keep in mind this blog’s main concern are female warriors. If you see some other type of female character gratuitously sexualized in media, consider whether it’s a more appropriate submission to our related blogs, like eschergirls​

When you see people trying to defend boob windows with claims that kunoichi (they mean female ninjas) flashed their boobs to dazzle opponents – these people are literally citing ridiculous anime and Japanese grindhouse films as historical documents.  By the same logic, cars in America explode when they bump into any object.

As an expansion of this, if you see people citing the espionage technique known as the “honey trap” (or “honey pot”) as valid in combat – you can safely assume they have no clue how seduction works.

Things we covered before and got asked about recently:

– wincenworks & Ozzie

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Tidy Up Tuesday #2.5

A few quick points this week.

Some people were concerned that David Sim, of Cerebus fame, has a reputation for misogyny – yes he does and we do not support his politics.  We do however find it worth noticing that even he saw major problems with bikini armor back in the 70s.

Once again, people have rushed to assure us someone told them SMITE is okay and not appropriative.  This time it’s the localization publisher and existing fanbase in China – that you can find someone to give it the thumbs up does not mean it doesn’t have a problem.  Particularly when the someone is a group who are apparently already largely unconcerned with the issue and/or stand to make money by giving you the thumbs up.

Due to time and resource constraints, we are unfortunately unable to offer critiques for personal works or projects.  The focus of the blog has always and will always be big commercial projects that get wide exposure because those are the projects who should know better and who do make big impacts.

We also had a query about whether we’re okay with sexy lady armor if the guys are similarly outfitted.  This depends on two criteria: Are they actually equally sexualized? And why are they all dressed like this?

~ Ozzie
– wincenworks

edit: This post was unfortunately lost during the first time Ozzie retroactively numbered Tidy-Up Tuesdays, therefore it’s number is now 2.5

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Tidy Up Tuesday #2.5

A few quick points this week.

Some people were concerned that David Sim, of Cerebus fame, has a reputation for misogyny – yes he does and we do not support his politics.  We do however find it worth noticing that even he saw major problems with bikini armor back in the 70s.

Once again, people have rushed to assure us someone told them SMITE is okay and not appropriative.  This time it’s the localization publisher and existing fanbase in China – that you can find someone to give it the thumbs up does not mean it doesn’t have a problem.  Particularly when the someone is a group who are apparently already largely unconcerned with the issue and/or stand to make money by giving you the thumbs up.

Due to time and resource constraints, we are unfortunately unable to offer critiques for personal works or projects.  The focus of the blog has always and will always be big commercial projects that get wide exposure because those are the projects who should know better and who do make big impacts.

We also had a query about whether we’re okay with sexy lady armor if the guys are similarly outfitted.  This depends on two criteria: Are they actually equally sexualized? And why are they all dressed like this?

~ Ozzie
– wincenworks

edit: This post was unfortunately lost during the first time Ozzie retroactively numbered Tidy-Up Tuesdays, therefore it’s number is now 2.5