The hilarious front line in the tragic war against ridiculous female armor
A few subjects we addressed before:
~Ozzie, – wincenworks & -Icy
A couple things to catch up to this week:
Thanks to everyone who sent this tumblr thread our way. We agree 100% with the points made there regarding false equivalence, though since it’s a long post reiterating what we have said on the blog before, and starts with a gross publicity stunt by Milo Namara and Frank Cho, we most likely won’t be reblogging it.
We have a new affiliated site in our Related section: FemHype (also on Tumblr) – a feminist gaming blog that is a safe space for women and non-binary readers.
Something we should cover in this post about Female Armor Bingo’s purpose: the square placement, while not completely random, is largely incidental. All Ozzie was aiming for when putting it together is giving highly visible squares to most prevalent tropes and putting related tropes close, but not close enough to guarantee too-easy bingo rows.
Apparently Tekken 7′s designs are so close to how erotica looks that our today’s post about it got flagged as NSFW (h/t: @kyaranflowers)
Things we addressed before:
~Ozzie, – wincenworks & -Icy
Just a few things to address this week.
We certainly agree that it is important to interrogate all media for harmful messages such as supporting imperialism. However, we do not support only taking this approach with media you don’t personally enjoy or expecting everyone to disregard all other aspects.
There is no problem-free content available for consumption, and it’s perfectly possible to enjoy media without supporting the politics of the creators. The only way to improve the mediascape is to encourage creators to keep the positive techniques and leave behind as many of the problems as possible.
Things we have addressed before:
~Ozzie, – wincenworks & – Icy
Just a few things we have addressed before:
~Ozzie, – wincenworks, & -Icy
Some readers gave us heads up regarding Tumblr mobile app going buggy with links to tags that end with /chrono, so we’ll try to avoid them in the future.
With that in mind, from now on we’ll be linking our most discussed topics as the newly created masterposts (work still in progress) that list the most significant posts in each category.
When submitting/recommending a bad design to BABD, please always make sure it’s from a commercial project, not an artist’s independent/personal exercise at character design.
If you’re like to ask for design advice, we recommend checking out:
Or drop in to @how-do-i-armour-and-stuff and send in an ask or submission (it doesn’t update as often as wincenworks would like, but he will happily review any questions/requests etc)
The Bad Genderbend Bingo we referenced with the Alieng Girl statue bingo, was @wackd‘s graphic design, but its writing is credited to @inbarfink, @zarekthelordofthefries, @maxwellelvis, and @fairytalesandimaginings
~Ozzie, – wincenworks & -Icy
Please, do not ever submit to BABD something, especially an image, completely context-free. We do not feel comfortable with publishing uncredited, unsourced works (and not all can be tracked back by us with a search engine).
Always remember to credit where the artwork comes from and, if they’re known, who’s the author. That goes for every sort of post, especially bingo’ed designs.
Quick reminder that Female Armor Bingo, as per rules and terms of its use, is only intended for the critique of commercial media made for mass consumption. It is not to be used for the critique or shaming of original independent works or fan works such as: fan art, fan fiction or cosplaying.
Things addressed before:
~Ozzie, – wincenworks & -Icy
This week’s tidy-ups:
When messaging us with a question whether we saw/formed opinion on some specific piece of media, please always do include its full name, source or, if possible, link to where we can check it.
Often a reader’s message is the first time we hear of something, and a lot of things are hard to find just by vague description like “that new comic/trailer with x and y”.
Things we addressed before:
~Ozzie, – wincenworks & -Icy
This week…
A Marvel representative decided to blame the rich representation of new characters, particularly women, LGBTQ+ folk and people of color, in their superhero comics as a reason for their recent sales drop. They’re making a bold claim that it’s the readers and retailers who didn’t really want diversity.
Incidentally, we discussed the potential of scapegoating the strive for diversity in media if said media is unsuccessful in our “Go make your own!” article.
Things we addressed before:
~Ozzie & – wincenworks
This week’s tidy-ups and announcements:
Big congrats to @wincenworks on the 3rd anniversary of becoming co-moderator! Thank you so much for helping me handle this blog and shape it into what it is today. Couldn’t have had a better collaborator!
~Ozzie
Sorry for the holdup with addressing most frequent/topical requests! We’re receiving lots of interesting messages/submissions/@-notifications, often regarding the same matters. With amount of posts our private schedules can provide at the moment (1 a day) we don’t want to rush into queuing articles with little to no thought and research put into them.
Hopefully we’re manage to address most in-demand topics soon.
Things we addressed before:
~Ozzie & – wincenworks
Tidying-up this week…
Since it is apparently a point of confusion to some – no, Overwatch doesn’t feature any black playable female characters. Not every dark skinned person of color is black.
Things addressed on BABD before:
~Ozzie & – wincenworks