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Gender Inequality Issues

Agent White

By Agent White,
Posted on: 2011-11-29 14:11 in Suggestions and Ideas

 

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Originally Posted by FoxLee View Post
More to the point... Masterminds are lame as solo combatants. So what's really more empowering to females - a woman who has no choice but to let an army of men do all the fighting for her, or a character who relies a bunch of butt-kicking female thugs/soldiers/ninjas to do their violence?
Very well said.

 

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Females need

Barbarian set:
Male shoulder rings
Male bracers
Male chest straps
Male loincloth

I dont like the old bracers for female, the new ones for male are much better and even come with a tight option.
Same for the chest straps, the resistance strap is too simple and the old ones have no texture, are low on polygons and resolution and clipps badly with the chest slider.
The new chest straps for male are awesome!

 

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For women:
The chest straps
better tattoo options
Resistance mo-hawk
Better shorter hair really :C
SKULL MASK
I WOULD SERIOUSLY PAY EXTRA MONEY FOR THAT FREAKING MASK I want it so bad it hurts, for real. I got so distressed when I found out it was male only and sometimes I roll temp male characters just so I can make costumes with it T_T
that barbarian belt is also sweet. I want.
Don't really play men so I can't help you there.

 

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Originally Posted by Camille Thompson View Post
For women:
The chest straps
better tattoo options
Resistance mo-hawk
Better shorter hair really :C
SKULL MASK
I WOULD SERIOUSLY PAY EXTRA MONEY FOR THAT FREAKING MASK

Would be nice for females to get skull mask and males get carnie masks.


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Originally Posted by Camille Thompson View Post
For women:
Resistance mo-hawk
I would love to have the Resistance mohawk for females!
We got a lot of buns and short hair lately.
We need really long, some ponys and more extreme tomboy new hairstyles for females.

 

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Originally Posted by ShadowMoka View Post
Would be nice for females to get skull mask and males get carnie masks.
I can get behind that

and yeah when I say short I mean boy cut.
I have a sporty chick and the "boy" cuts we have now are alittle too...1980's weightlifter for me

 

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Originally Posted by Angelxman81 View Post
We got a lot of buns and short hair lately.
We need really long, some ponys and more extreme tomboy new hairstyles for females.
I do have to admit to being in love with that new club hair. I would also like some not-stupid-looking ponytail options. I dislike the extant ones.

- Ashley
[Rocker Girl (Earth/Earth Dom); Sweet Venom (Plant/Time Ctrl)]

 

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Originally Posted by Wicked_Wendy View Post
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please let me clarify that years back the answer was that the dev team was afraid that perverted males would use binds or marcos to have female minions bowing at their feet and this would be very sexist.
I know I'll make a mastermind guy in leather just so I can do exactly this. Great idea!

 

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Originally Posted by Forbin_Project View Post
I always wanted to do a character based on the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
I did once, I called him FrankenFlirter. He was genericized.


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Originally Posted by Wicked_Wendy View Post
Okay let us start with one that Masterminds have been asking about for years.. Aside from some paranoid delusion that allowing us to have the option to have female minions will result in the end of the known universe. Why cant my female MM have female pets!

please let me clarify that years back the answer was that the dev team was afraid that perverted males would use binds or marcos to have female minions bowing at their feet and this would be very sexist. Then the same group churns out one costume set after another that denies females some very cool things the males have while giving us one scanty option after another.
What is to stop some perverted guy from making a slutty female character and bowing at men's feet with. You don't need mastermind pets for that. That argument doesn't hold much weight in a court of logic.

I REALLY think the development team just like doing their own things and doesn't really care what we want. On occasion they will do something special to appease us rabid wolves. It is THEIR game, so I can't blame them, but from a business standpoint, it isn't very smart. I plan on going free to play soon.


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Originally Posted by Red_Addiction View Post
What is to stop some perverted guy from making a slutty female character and bowing at men's feet with. You don't need mastermind pets for that. That argument doesn't hold much weight in a court of logic.
Agreed. Sadly, the argument "This will take a butt-ton of coding and UI time that doesn't exist and isn't on schedule" packs a lot more poundage.

I say sadly, because I do really want MM customisation. But, hey-oh...

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Would it be possible for male characters to get a edited version of the bolero magic witch tops the girls get?

That dynasty pack coat is so cool I really wish I could use it with the weird sleeve thing it has instead of the fur.

Oh and butt capes.

 

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Originally Posted by twistedlogic77 View Post
Would it be possible for male characters to get a edited version of the bolero magic witch tops the girls get?

That dynasty pack coat is so cool I really wish I could use it with the weird sleeve thing it has instead of the fur.

Oh and butt capes.
i think it';s silly that males dont also get the interesting trench coats. obviously, not off-the-shoulder really, but still the awesome costume options could really work for any gender.

 

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Updated to include the Imperial Dynasty shoulders to the things guys should have. I decided not to add the bolero itself as its clearly a reskin of the magic bolero, and what is desired is more a new costume piece, fancy trenchcoats.

Anyone want to check the Imperial Dynasty set for anything else missing between male/female that would be a straight port?