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Benimaru Nikaido disempowered

@puppyinatophat submitted:

So I noticed you guys discussed King of Fighters XIV’s latest trailers and there was something that I feel you missed in your discussion.

Benimaru’s design change. They had a perfectly “empowered” character, and they take that away from him.

This was his pre XIV design (in game shots too):

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(KOF 94)

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(KOF 2000)

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(KOF XI)

And now this is look in the latest game:

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How could they? Taking away his empowerment like that? Expecting a man to fight in simple street clothes when he could be showing off his intimidating abs.

(Also, for those wondering about his hair, he has electricity powers and keeps hair out of his eyes by using static electricity to push it up. He’s also a very very inspired by the Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure character Polnareff.)

(Trailer showing Benimaru in King of Fighters XIV here) 

I would like to call for a solemn moment of silence, for this poor soul so had his empowerment stripped of him. (If you would like to press F to pay your respects, I’ve checked and it’s not a Tumblr hotkey so you’re safe to do.)

Benimaru, you are being failed by the people who should have been there to protect you.  I’m so sorry.

Benimaru has all the traits of someone who should have been protected.  He’s a fighting game character (not Street Fighter but still), he’s got fabulous hair, delicious abs and a love of teasingly revealing outfits.  But, when the time came where were the “creative freedom” crowds?  Who came forward to speak on this Benimaru’s behalf to speak of this fictional character’s important personal preferences?

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No one.  Benimaru was counting on these people to protect him (or would have if he wasn’t a fictional character).  His empowerment has been stripped away without so much as a word of complaint by The Guardians.

– wincenworks

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Benimaru Nikaido disempowered

@puppyinatophat submitted:

So I noticed you guys discussed King of Fighters XIV’s latest trailers and there was something that I feel you missed in your discussion.

Benimaru’s design change. They had a perfectly “empowered” character, and they take that away from him.

This was his pre XIV design (in game shots too):

image

(KOF 94)

image

(KOF 2000)

image
image

(KOF XI)

And now this is look in the latest game:

image

How could they? Taking away his empowerment like that? Expecting a man to fight in simple street clothes when he could be showing off his intimidating abs.

(Also, for those wondering about his hair, he has electricity powers and keeps hair out of his eyes by using static electricity to push it up. He’s also a very very inspired by the Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure character Polnareff.)

(Trailer showing Benimaru in King of Fighters XIV here) 

I would like to call for a solemn moment of silence, for this poor soul so had his empowerment stripped of him. (If you would like to press F to pay your respects, I’ve checked and it’s not a Tumblr hotkey so you’re safe to do.)

Benimaru, you are being failed by the people who should have been there to protect you.  I’m so sorry.

Benimaru has all the traits of someone who should have been protected.  He’s a fighting game character (not Street Fighter but still), he’s got fabulous hair, delicious abs and a love of teasingly revealing outfits.  But, when the time came where were the “creative freedom” crowds?  Who came forward to speak on this Benimaru’s behalf to speak of this fictional character’s important personal preferences?

image

No one.  Benimaru was counting on these people to protect him (or would have if he wasn’t a fictional character).  His empowerment has been stripped away without so much as a word of complaint by The Guardians.

– wincenworks

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eschergirls:

Here’s a closer look at the Special Forces cover that was in the previous post.

(Cover of Special Forces #4, Image Comics)

According to some notes, this is supposed to be a satire comic.

How about then we compare it to an eerily similar NON-SATIRE comic cover by J. Scott Campbell?

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Hint: a responsible satire doesn’t straight-up reproduce the satirized thing, but puts some sort of twist on it. And I don’t mean a torso twist.
Also no, using the Disney font for the author’s credit doesn’t yet make the whole artwork “ironic”.

We truly live in an era when deliberate sexualization can’t be told apart from gratuitous sexualization.

~Ozzie

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Why do a lot of people forget that boobs aren’t here for you. They are supposed to produce breast milk, not be sex objects.

bikiniarmorbattledamage:

It’s the question I ask myself all the time.

Of course being aroused by breasts is natural and by no means bad in itself, let’s make it clear. But our culture skewed the perception of breasts by overemphasizing their arbitrary* sexual value (*boobs are not necessary for sex to happen, after all). They’re treated like some kind of secondary genitals, while tabooing the actual function they’re designed for (feeding babies).
That’s the sad reason why on one hand a bare female breast is considered “indecent” to the point of shaming women from nursing in public places, while on the other hand they’re used as a shortcut for what straight male audience would (allegedly) instantly find appealing.

And as (horny) hetero men are somehow the default audience for most of entertainment media, boobs need to be bared, or at least emphasized beyond any logic (and beyond how science works) on every possible occasion, even when it makes little to no sense in context.
Frustration with above school of thought is one of the major reasons that this blog exists. You know there’s something wrong when it’s more important to show that a warrior character happens to have boobs than to apply some practical battle wear for them.

Bringing this back, cause according to SOME people corenthal’s Power Boy’s crotch-window is a proof that we agree boobs to be equally sexual in nature with dicks… To which I say: wow, go learn what a strawman fallacy is!

The fact that a satire works within the system it makes fun of doesn’t mean it promotes the system. It’s basically required to take a thing we’re ridiculing to an extreme to even count as a satire in the first place!

And in the culture that treats flaunting women’s boobs like a something inherently sex-related (as if female breasts were genitals) but is completely okay with male pecs and nipples, flaunting what part of a man’s body would be comparably sex-related, huh?

As I said before, satire that reverses the oppressive status quo is very important and potentially eye-opening to privileged groups.
And since mere shirtlessness of a male fictional character doesn’t make cishet men uncomfortable in the same way as pointless boob windows make women, a penis-shaft-window should work.

~Ozzie

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Anonymous:

Why do a lot of people forget that boobs aren’t here for you. They are supposed to produce breast milk, not be sex objects.

bikiniarmorbattledamage:

It’s the question I ask myself all the time.

Of course being aroused by breasts is natural and by no means bad in itself, let’s make it clear. But our culture skewed the perception of breasts by overemphasizing their arbitrary* sexual value (*boobs are not necessary for sex to happen, after all). They’re treated like some kind of secondary genitals, while tabooing the actual function they’re designed for (feeding babies).
That’s the sad reason why on one hand a bare female breast is considered “indecent” to the point of shaming women from nursing in public places, while on the other hand they’re used as a shortcut for what straight male audience would (allegedly) instantly find appealing.

And as (horny) hetero men are somehow the default audience for most of entertainment media, boobs need to be bared, or at least emphasized beyond any logic (and beyond how science works) on every possible occasion, even when it makes little to no sense in context.
Frustration with above school of thought is one of the major reasons that this blog exists. You know there’s something wrong when it’s more important to show that a warrior character happens to have boobs than to apply some practical battle wear for them.

Bringing this back, cause according to SOME people corenthal’s Power Boy’s crotch-window is a proof that we agree boobs to be equally sexual in nature with dicks… To which I say: wow, go learn what a strawman fallacy is!

The fact that a satire works within the system it makes fun of doesn’t mean it promotes the system. It’s basically required to take a thing we’re ridiculing to an extreme to even count as a satire in the first place!

And in the culture that treats flaunting women’s boobs like a something inherently sex-related (as if female breasts were genitals) but is completely okay with male pecs and nipples, flaunting what part of a man’s body would be comparably sex-related, huh?

As I said before, satire that reverses the oppressive status quo is very important and potentially eye-opening to privileged groups.
And since mere shirtlessness of a male fictional character doesn’t make cishet men uncomfortable in the same way as pointless boob windows make women, a penis-shaft-window should work.

~Ozzie