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While we addressed that this amazing article’s header image references the removal of Tracer’s “look at my butt” pose from Overwatch – I wanted to illustrate how it applies to any censorship vs creative freedom “controversy”, not just Overwatch.

Here are some older “vile acts of censorship” in video games which we covered on BABD that match Point & Click’s satirical text just as much:

Similarly, the older article that features a pic of R. Mika, could apply to the Overwatch butt case as well.

Hope this sufficiently summarizes how predictable and repetitive the sexualization defense rhetoric really is.

~Ozzie

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Carolzilla submitted:

Smosh just released this video, they make fun of different superhero topics, including female superhero armor.

I like how they take a jab at many questionable trends in superhero-related media, like the how white most superheroes are, how female characters don’t star in their own movies and the obligatory dead parents (content warning for that particular sketch’s ending). 

Though the bikini armor sketch above could be a bit less similar to College Humor’s classic Female Armor Sucks.

Considering Captain Man is completely okay with that, I’d love to see some fanart of him in Captain Woman’s bikini 😉 

~Ozzie

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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The AAA industry is so diverse and creative with their female-led action games, huh?

Found the first picture by as a one-off joke in badassoftheweek article and @wincenworks proposed we made more.

I’m disproportionally proud of how they came out.

Not pictured: Hot chick with a chainsaw (Lollipop Chainsaw) and Hot chick with a sword on a dinosaur (Golden Axe Beast Rider).

~Ozzie

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– wincenworks

PS: Font credits:

My apologies for not including this earlier. ~Ozzie

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The AAA industry is so diverse and creative with their female-led action games, huh?

Found the first picture by as a one-off joke in badassoftheweek article and @wincenworks proposed we made more.

I’m disproportionally proud of how they came out.

Not pictured: Hot chick with a chainsaw (Lollipop Chainsaw) and Hot chick with a sword on a dinosaur (Golden Axe Beast Rider).

~Ozzie

image

– wincenworks

PS: Font credits:

My apologies for not including this earlier. ~Ozzie

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bikiniarmorbattledamage:

shattered-earth:

*dfab cis thin busty pale skin women

it really is an awful outfit, but i’m pretty sure 98% of the guys complaining about new FF guy outfit ”is not the skimpiness it’s just ugly~” didn’t complain about lightning’s awful outfit (and the other one too) (and 90% of these)

Perfect response to the Sexy Final Fantasy Dude controversy is perfect.

We can always count on shattered-earth’s humor to be on-point! 🙂

Also big thanks to her for juxtaposing the infamous design with how female version of that character would actually look.
We’ve seen a concerning amount of responses which claim that somehow this paragon of conventionally attractive masculine form is so effeminate that he’s practically a girl… Because showing a lot of skin and having pretty hair is inherently feminine, I suppose?
Gamer dudebros sure like stretching to validate their sexually confused rage.

~Ozzie

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As a side-note: this is BABD’s 1001th post! Rejoice!

Bringing this back as a reminder that if Wal was actually female, no dudebro would bat an eye at his original skimperrific costume. Neither would they demand it to cover up more, let alone have that request granted by developers.

‘Cause, as we all know, asking for less scanty outfits is “censorship” only if a woman is wearing them. Especially if people asking to cover up the character are feminists.

~Ozzie