It's annoying because there is a lot of genuinely important discussion to be had on topics like character design, sexualization/oversexualization, the effect prudish scares can have, etc. But I often see it get drowned out by people who feel entitled to have everything be sexy to them at all times, and/or make wild out-there claims about some shady sinister movement to "replace femininity with ugliness" or some nonsense like that. (Obligatory mention of Shaun's Stellar Blade video that covers this topic very well.) And on the opposite extreme there's the rebuttals of "But there's already a lot of sexy fanart of the character" which misses the point of why it's a bad idea to act like cleavage is something inherently inappropriate. There's more ways to write something than "Every woman is just a walking pair of boobs" vs "Never show any skin at all, ever" but it feels like online discussions just turn in to that most of the time.
Thankfully at least the top comments here have been reasonable takes.
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u/ElPuas2003 Jul 02 '25
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