petition for a video game where everything is pretty much normal fantasy stuff except all the female armor is sensible, protective armor and all the males get sexy, stupidly skimpy stuff like leather thongs
I would play that! đ
~Ozzie
I buy that game just purely based of the fact that it’s got the gumption to do something different, so I want to see what else they might do different rather than just recycle the same tropes over and over and over and over.
Isnât it interesting how often the response to criticisms such as the armor bingo card boil down to âbut I have to keep using these tired offensive  cliches because creativityâ? Are they even listening to themselves? Why not take it as a challenge? âHow can I create beautiful and original character designs without falling back on tropes that thousands and thousands of artists have used before me?â Now that would be creative.
Defending your ârightâ to use offensive tropes in character design (or writing, or whatever your creative endeavor of choice) isnât âartistic integrityâ. Itâs laziness.
Yup. This^ Pretty much. Emphasis mine.
Whenever someone uses those arguments I’m all like:
â«DOUBLE STANDARDS ALL THE WAY ACROSS THE SKYYYY!â«
~Ozzie
I love how the female version has no face plate, just in case there was any confusion about the gender beneath the armor – we have to see those full lips.
