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6 BS Excuses Developers Gave For Adding Boobs To Video Games

6 BS Excuses Developers Gave For Adding Boobs To Video Games

Unsurprisingly five out of the six are in regards to attire (the odd one out is in relation to shower scenes) and none of these justifications are really that unusual.

Of course, we’ve already discussed the beyond questionable explanation of why were’s supposed to be ashamed of not supporting Quiet’s “breathing through my skin” lifestyle.

The most interesting one of the batch may be the one that’s tried a unique variant of “She was designed in a country where sexualization is cultural!” specifically…

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It’s kind of the reverse of when people rush in to tell us that we shouldn’t question their strange belief that Asia is a fantasy land of boobs and anime.

– wincenworks

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I believe the second image was submitted to BABD ages ago and I never got around to come up with commentary. 

The thing is, Codename: Kids Next Door, as a cartoon with a silly premise played up to 11, has a sense of self-awareness. 

In a show that has characters named Count Spankulot or Toilenator, bras that transform into armor (boobplate included, of course!) are well within the realm of possibility.

Not so much in fantasy/sci-fi settings that otherwise take themselves seriously. 

Another advantage KND’s bra armor has over all that “mature” media that has battle bikinis? Boys wear it too, boobplate and all.

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~Ozzie

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fandomsandfeminism:

arcana-heights:

“Women should be respected and accepted as they are, don’t shame them regardless of what they look like and what they wear. Do whatever you want, ladies!”
*virtual ladies in bikinis*
“Um, this is infringing on my rights. How dare you? Keep this misogynistic filth away from me.”

Do you not understand the difference between a fictional character, created by men, to be seen as sexually pleasing for men in fiction and…like…REAL WOMEN who are ALIVE and are able to make CHOICES for themselves? 

Like, women have some key differences with fictional depictions of women. 

Ah agency, one of so many issues that bikini armor apologists work so hard to avoid understanding.  Of course, it doesn’t help that there’s a trend with developers to try to have it both ways and insult their creations for being… how they created them.

– wincenworks

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While this video by Movie Bob came out relatively long ago, in anticipation for the first pics of Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman, it still tackles some meaningful issues for our blog: how adding pants and/or covering skin on a female character redesign doesn’t yet fix the problems inherent with her old, more revealing costume and in-story presentation.

That’s why we ridiculed J. Scott Campbell’s outrage over Wonder Woman’s new shoulderpads

pauldrons, but didn’t go so far to praise the covering new costume he hated so much. 

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It’s an adequate superheroine outfit and has Diana’s iconic elements intact, but its supposedly biggest change, the skin-covering catsuit, seems indeed like an uninspired, colored-in afterthought.

While, as Bob points out in the video, there will always be a crowd unsatisfied with the changes (especially for such a popular character), I say it’s crucial to just PUT AN EFFORT into a redesign. Only then things can begin to work out.

See, for the record, BABD’s favorite re-imaginings of Wonder Woman:

~Ozzie

As Bob said, there’s a lot to unpack and while we’ve seen that it’s certainly possible to cover  female character head-to-toe and still have her be ridiculously sexualized.  I also feel that arbitrary statements like “makes her less like the other two” are at least as responsible for bad re-designs.

Ironically when it comes to characters like Diana, a large part of this is that the comics industry is influenced by unhealthy amounts of nostalgia so instead of doing completely fresh re-designs they tend to insist on homaging the original.

And when the outfit was as ridiculous as Wonder Woman’s original outfit it’s kind of hard to make something that looks credible.  Particularly since people aware of her origins tend to go with “sexy pinup dominatrix” rather than “genuinely intimidating and dominant woman”.

I will say this though, if you really want to take the stance against “modesty” approach and tell people that it should all just be allowed to hang out – there’s someone who should be wearing a lot less than Wonder Woman.  No. Really.

– wincenworks

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