Sexism in Costume Choices?
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@Golden Girl
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That's mostly borderline gross, but the excessive abs tip it over the edge into grossness
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And the only reason it looks a little uncanny valley is because it's the male texture applied to the female model, because there IS no female option in-game. Obviously were one created it would be a lot more figure-appropriate than an impromptu fix to use as an example of intent.
GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.
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and this:
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That pic from Coldfront is old, grainy and using a texture that's not actually applicable in-game, because it has nipples on it. And I know that from experience with that particular mod.
Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.
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It's funny that you're so quick to Godwinise others, GG, when your own views are so rigid, unyielding and borderline faschistic...
And the only reason it looks a little uncanny valley is because it's the male texture applied to the female model, because there IS no female option in-game. Obviously were one created it would be a lot more figure-appropriate than an impromptu fix to use as an example of intent. |
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Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.
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Tech, please, if you have to reply to her, just don't quote her post. Pretty please with sugar on top
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GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.
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Tech, please, if you have to reply to her, just don't quote her post. Pretty please with sugar on top
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They look like guys in drag, or some horrific gender hybrid created by a mad scientist with serious issues
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@Golden Girl
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I rather like the images, Sam.
That would be a good start for more athletic females.
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Look at that. A full-grown woman pulling off pigtails. Her crazy is off the charts.
Those are equally repulsive, and equally unfeminine
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I don't want to scare you GG but we can now vote and work also.
As far as I understand things, shorts and engraved bracers and shoulder pets and several other gender-specific options were done long about I4, as an add-in pack that was intended at least in part to reference other NCSoft games. Sometimes I wonder what modelers actually made them.
I have a feeling they were single-gender -- single-model, anyway -- because clipping errors would crop up on other skeletons. The bracers would embed themselves in male forearms, kittens would be encased in the Huge frame's massive shoulders, and the shorts would regularly carve out even more of a male model's thigh than they do a female model's.
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Look at that. A full-grown woman pulling off pigtails. Her crazy is off the charts.
Yes there is sexism in the way male costume choices are limited.
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Yes on a variation of the skirt for men so it can be used for cimeroran or barbarians.
Yes on really long hair for males... Yes on tattoo's for females. Or the dragon bracer for males... or the headbands for males...
The parts are in the game... Just start using them on all models.
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Women can still be strong without looking gross.
@Golden Girl
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I know we can - but that doesn't mean we need to try and look like men
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it's easy enough to move the abs in a little and fade them out a bit so that they don't look so manlike and yet still look strong. Something like this...
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I know we can - but that doesn't mean we need to try and look like men
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Oh, wait.
At least you were patially right.
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GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.
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GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.
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Weird. It's like you're implying that things like female bodybuilders exist, and that they have highly defined musculature, but we all know that that doesn't exist in comic books, much less the real world. (At least according to some.
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I'm not a feminist, I don't think, but it still horrifies me when people defend this game's lack of decent representation of women. I mean, I can get why the game is like that - technical limitations dictate how much variety you can introduce in a digital product, and I can't blame the developers for sticking with the most popular theme, even if I feel the original developers simply lack imagination to foresee other possibilities. But I can see why the game is like that. I CANNOT see why people insist it never expand, as though I'm asking for something morally criminal to be added.
Her reactions to this theme is one of the reasons why I never want to know what Golden Girl thinks ever again, but even her sexist xenophobia notwithstanding, I'm surprised time and again by how much people will insist that this shouldn't happen. It's extra options, guys and gals. The more options we have, the better, and if a few of us happen to get use of some you don't need, then isn't that still a net gain for the game as a whole?
Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.
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Because all women have a 'perfect' hourglass figure, with neat skinny waists and super model legs and giant busts-
Oh, wait. At least you were patially right. ![]() |
So if that's the look you're after, then I think you'll probably have to wait for a Halloween booster pack
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