Tidy-Up Tuesday #8

Addressing this week:


We still do not agree that an occasional shirtless dude warrior balances out the tons of warrior ladies in generic armor bikinis. There’s a whole tag devoted to that.


Female Armor Bingo (including the rhetoric one) is free for personal use. This means you don’t need us to validate a score for any design you want to judge with it.


Posts containing images and information about real armor and real battles are kept in our reference and resource tags.


~Ozzie & – wincenworks

Tidy-Up Tuesday #8

Addressing this week:


We still do not agree that an occasional shirtless dude warrior balances out the tons of warrior ladies in generic armor bikinis. There’s a whole tag devoted to that.


Female Armor Bingo (including the rhetoric one) is free for personal use. This means you don’t need us to validate a score for any design you want to judge with it.


Posts containing images and information about real armor and real battles are kept in our reference and resource tags.


~Ozzie & – wincenworks

Tidy-Up Tuesday #7

This week’s points:


Please keep in mind this blog’s main concern are female warriors. If you see some other type of female character gratuitously sexualized in media, consider whether it’s a more appropriate submission to our related blogs, like eschergirls


When you see people trying to defend boob windows with claims that kunoichi (they mean female ninjas) flashed their boobs to dazzle opponents – these people are literally citing ridiculous anime and Japanese grindhouse films as historical documents.  By the same logic, cars in America explode when they bump into any object.


As an expansion of this, if you see people citing the espionage technique known as the “honey trap” (or “honey pot”) as valid in combat – you can safely assume they have no clue how seduction works.


Things we covered before and got asked about recently:


– wincenworks & Ozzie

Tidy-Up Tuesday #7

This week’s points:


Please keep in mind this blog’s main concern are female warriors. If you see some other type of female character gratuitously sexualized in media, consider whether it’s a more appropriate submission to our related blogs, like eschergirls


When you see people trying to defend boob windows with claims that kunoichi (they mean female ninjas) flashed their boobs to dazzle opponents – these people are literally citing ridiculous anime and Japanese grindhouse films as historical documents.  By the same logic, cars in America explode when they bump into any object.


As an expansion of this, if you see people citing the espionage technique known as the “honey trap” (or “honey pot”) as valid in combat – you can safely assume they have no clue how seduction works.


Things we covered before and got asked about recently:


– wincenworks & Ozzie

Tidy-up Tuesday #6

It’s been a particularly eventful week of updates for us, so no wonder some queries we receive should be addressed.


Please do not comment under BABD posts without adhering to our commenting guidelines.


For those who say we’re being “too negative” in our criticism: look it up in our FAQ.


A reminder our focus is on commercial media, as such we do not feature/call-out personal artworks as examples of the tropes we criticize.  We are certainly interested in personal artworks that critique the issue of bikini armor or provide information about armor and/or design.


Thank you to kuronanestimare for directing us to the segment of Angry Joe’s review where he talks about Quiet. This is the review where he gives the game “the highest possible 9/10 and easily Badass Seal of Approval”. Proving once again, that you can love The Return of the Jedi but hate Ewoks.


Some issues we’ve address previously but received queries recently:


~Ozzie & – wincenworks

Tidy-up Tuesday #6

It’s been a particularly eventful week of updates for us, so no wonder some queries we receive should be addressed.


Please do not comment under BABD posts without adhering to our commenting guidelines.


For those who say we’re being “too negative” in our criticism: look it up in our FAQ.


A reminder our focus is on commercial media, as such we do not feature/call-out personal artworks as examples of the tropes we criticize.  We are certainly interested in personal artworks that critique the issue of bikini armor or provide information about armor and/or design.


Thank you to kuronanestimare for directing us to the segment of Angry Joe’s review where he talks about Quiet. This is the review where he gives the game “the highest possible 9/10 and easily Badass Seal of Approval”. Proving once again, that you can love The Return of the Jedi but hate Ewoks.


Some issues we’ve address previously but received queries recently:


~Ozzie & – wincenworks

Tidy Up Tuesday #4

A few little tidy ups this week.


When submitting an image please take the time to change the submit form to image/photo and attach it  – it makes things much simpler for us.


A special message to the people who were concerned about critics being mean to Chun Li, Cammy and Quiet.


Some topics we have received queries about but have covered before:


– wincenworks & ~Ozzie

Tidy Up Tuesday #4

A few little tidy ups this week.


When submitting an image please take the time to change the submit form to image/photo and attach it  – it makes things much simpler for us.


A special message to the people who were concerned about critics being mean to Chun Li, Cammy and Quiet.


Some topics we have received queries about but have covered before:


– wincenworks & ~Ozzie