Month: December 2016

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Cindy is basically the first female character you get to have significant interaction with in Final Fantasy XV, and while she’s not a warrior I’m going to make an exception here because.

1. She’s supposed to be the lead mechanic who can fix anything
2. So far I haven’t been able to find any noteworthy warrior women in Final Fantasy XV
3. Most of the female characters wear slightly differently styled clothes based off everyday and formal clothing from the real world

I think it’s safe to say there’s no way that we’re supposed to believe this is an outfit a third generation mechanic would wear to work (particularly in a world where monsters roam about just a hundred feet or so from truck stops)

If you have any doubts, I suggest checking out this great project where a fan artist gender flipped the cast and check out how Cindy came out:

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– wincenworks

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bikiniarmorbattledamage:

@spiraldrawsstuff submitted:

I saw this on twitter and thought it relevant to your blog.

There’s so much in this casting call that we’ve talked about indirectly before:

And this was a movie where I was kind of kind of excited about because it had Gamora in it!

– wincenworks

It’s one of those cases that disappoints, but doesn’t surprise me. Especially since with the first movie, not unlike with Avengers, they reduced female team member count to one, despite there being more women in the comics.

For all the praise Marvel Cinematic Univese gets, it still has a really hard time letting go of tired tropes and conventions, like the Smurfette Principle and Men Are Strong, Women Are Pretty.

And we should be always pointing that out, for as long as it remains the status quo.

~Ozzie

As the follow up to last week’s throwback, it’s worth remembering that the general differences between men and women in mainstream media are most certainly not the result of “how things are”.

Major studios hire casting teams to generate calls like this and then carefully curate everyone who gets to be in front of a camera.  Sometimes this is for specific effects (making 5′9″ Lucy Lawless look like a towering glamazon) but more often it’s just to re-enforce harmful ideals and perceptions.

Like that men should be complicated and diverse – and women should be sexy.

– wincenworks