Dick Grayson aka Nightwing
[Batsons Strip collection]
@bikiniarmorbattledamage Fully clothed but still sexualized: men’s edition.
Many people insist that Nightiwng is the one DC superhero who gets as close to pandering to female gaze as possible, cause some artists remember how good his butt looks in that bodypaint skin-tight costume…
I’d still say it’s the fan artists who really know best how to take advantage of Dick’s amazing physique by the way of pinup posing and sultry expressions – you know, those things female superheroes somehow keep doing even in the middle of action.
~Ozzie
These are only a few of the armor designs for the MMORPG BLESS Online. As you can see, quality varies wildly between designs. It’s worth noting that these are all from the “Heavy Armor” category, so designers obviously thought they gave similar protection to the wearer. There are much worse ones that can all be seen here. I’m sad to see these cool, creative, protective designs side by side with boring objectifying bikini armor. At least they all have decent helmets.
The part I find most striking is that the bikini armor outfits look so uninspired from the front due to the use of “windows” to show off flesh.
Especially when juxtaposed with the more practical designs it really does look like they did a bunch of regular designs then had Creepy Marketing Guy come along and red line it where he wanted to put bits on display.
Sadly, it seems that this was not limited to the fronts of the outfits:
– wincenworks
Watch: This dad’s TED talk about female super heroes is so important
follow @this-is-life-actually
Christopher Bell: Bring on the female super heroes!
We want to give special props to Christopher for calling out both how high saturation media giants like Disney tend to promise representation but stop short of even a token presence and how society’s fixation with gendering media and traits hurts children of all genders.
As a preemptive response to those who claim he’s misrepresenting media in general or it’s just Disney, let’s use a recent video game that claims it’s doing better representation for women.
Here is all the Zarya merchandise Blizzard has in their online store that isn’t a generic Overwatch/group item or labelled as “Men’s”
I’d like to show you their Mei merchandise, but they don’t have any. At all.
Yeah.
– wincenworks
Watch: This dad’s TED talk about female super heroes is so important
follow @this-is-life-actually
Christopher Bell: Bring on the female super heroes!
We want to give special props to Christopher for calling out both how high saturation media giants like Disney tend to promise representation but stop short of even a token presence and how society’s fixation with gendering media and traits hurts children of all genders.
As a preemptive response to those who claim he’s misrepresenting media in general or it’s just Disney, let’s use a recent video game that claims it’s doing better representation for women.
Here is all the Zarya merchandise Blizzard has in their online store that isn’t a generic Overwatch/group item or labelled as “Men’s”
I’d like to show you their Mei merchandise, but they don’t have any. At all.
Yeah.
– wincenworks
