Speaking of fandom, just blocked a guy that was complaining about me not liking this figure.
He was complaining about how people like me always whined even when we got what we want, and that we were never satisfied and GW was buying bullied or some shit. Because apparently when you tell a guy “I want new and redesigned SoB figs to come out, without the boob armor and stupid shit and especially without the heels some art has” they hear “I want more SoB figs”. Like no I’m sorry but at this point I’d much rather they stop making them if they’re going to do these pieces of shit. How clueless can you be making the first sororita fig in months and give it a stripper leg ?
Here’s one for @bikiniarmorbattledamage. I keep laughing like a moron just looking at this pic. The armor’s not just impractical and sexualized, it’s gaudy, kitschy, and stupid. Is that the Sisters’ strategy? To distract their opponents with how ridiculous their outfit looks? I mean, I suppose it’s hard to aim when you’re convulsing with laughter.
Some vocal male Warhammer 40k fans probably aren’t part of Toxic Masculinity Brigade, but I haven’t really met one yet…
And since every time something about double standards in WH40k is referenced a tide of Twitter thread-worthy replies arises, I await them anxiously.
~Ozzie
PS: Apparently this design is based on an old piece of artwork… Which is a 0% valid excuse for Games Workshop to produce it now, after years of being called out on perpetuating sexist stereotypes with their figures.
Speaking of fandom, just blocked a guy that was complaining about me not liking this figure.
He was complaining about how people like me always whined even when we got what we want, and that we were never satisfied and GW was buying bullied or some shit. Because apparently when you tell a guy “I want new and redesigned SoB figs to come out, without the boob armor and stupid shit and especially without the heels some art has” they hear “I want more SoB figs”. Like no I’m sorry but at this point I’d much rather they stop making them if they’re going to do these pieces of shit. How clueless can you be making the first sororita fig in months and give it a stripper leg ?
Here’s one for @bikiniarmorbattledamage. I keep laughing like a moron just looking at this pic. The armor’s not just impractical and sexualized, it’s gaudy, kitschy, and stupid. Is that the Sisters’ strategy? To distract their opponents with how ridiculous their outfit looks? I mean, I suppose it’s hard to aim when you’re convulsing with laughter.
Some vocal male Warhammer 40k fans probably aren’t part of Toxic Masculinity Brigade, but I haven’t really met one yet…
And since every time something about double standards in WH40k is referenced a tide of Twitter thread-worthy replies arises, I await them anxiously.
~Ozzie
PS: Apparently this design is based on an old piece of artwork… Which is a 0% valid excuse for Games Workshop to produce it now, after years of being called out on perpetuating sexist stereotypes with their figures.
Also, this particular one? PAAANK, because how else could we affirm this is supposed to be female character? It’s not like pants were taken away from her already and she runs around in a literal bra and nothing more on her upper torso. Nope, not female-coded enough; needs pink.
This sexy lady you see in there is Claudia, the female protagonist of one of my favourite french comics of all times, Requiem: Chevalier Vampire. It’s a very good story (although is very nsfw, it has a lot of explicit violence, nudity and sex scenes) but… it could do waaay better with female representation. The double standards here is something that really hurts, specially while the males have this awesome armors:
And females has… well, you’ve seen.
The only valid excuse i could see for this is that the story happens in hell itself and they’re all vampires and are practically indestructible but… this does not explain why males have such badass-looking armor and females don’t.
And it’s not only the costumes, within the story, a lot of the male characters refers to women in a very despicable way; just because “they’re all sinners and are in hell” (literally this is the excuse they give when they say or do some painful sexist things) There are some genuinely good female characters tho, such as the queen of Dystopia:
But she only appears for a very short time, i think in fact she only appears in one of the numbers. There are also a group of only female pirates whose leader is some kind of transgender women (it is not specified but you can guess by some things she says and also her past when alive). And they are treat very equal to any other group of characters within the story, and are the ones that looks the least sexualized of all:
Yes… This lady is one of the least sexualized character in the story…
If you’d like to see, you’ll find some bingo material and you don’t even have to search really much (the cover of the 7th volume for example, the 10th and even the 2nd).
(I also want to apologize for my spelling or writing errors, english is not my first language and i’m still learning.)
So I did some cursory research, and you were right: finding bingo material in this series is not even that hard. The most clothing I’ve seen Claudia wear is this:
And while those boots are amazing, her top is somehow even worse than the bingo’ed one… it’s giving me second-hand pains. She does have fun facial expressions, though.
And I will say that despite the questionable choices for covers, the texture rendering on them is pretty damn good. Of the covers I’ve seen, I think this one is my favorite; it’s got pretty cohesive shape language and a striking (if conventional) color palette. Plus I’m a sucker for ladies with huge shoulder pads, sorry!
Looking into this comic was definitely a trip, though. Thanks for the submission!
