I would say gnomes and dwarves in WoW are closer to “little person” proportions. The Lalafell literally are proportioned like children. lol
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yet the countless amount of topless male npcs in the game doesn’t strike you as sexualization, I take it?
It has nothing to do with my own perception about He-man. it has to do with others’ perceptions of him.
Make a female version of He-man and she would be seen as sexualized. Being bare chested and wearing practically nothing is very common for male cartoon characters and yet the perception remains that female characters are more sexualized than male ones. This is precisely because there is more potential to sexualize a female character and so it is harder not to. There is no male equivalent to showing cleavage, for example, which I already stated.
It’s not enough, they should be pant-less as well! Women get good butts and mogs to show them off, yet men don’t? Why does my butt suck so much? I do so many squats and still my male nelf butt looks like a plate.
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Gnomes yes i could understand that, dwarves not at all. Dwarves are very wide and stocky, plus they aren’t all that short and their heads are more proportional.
Lmao this is the funniest most incorrect thing in this thread.
Many women in my guild are worried that Trolls are going to get female armor and outfits puritanical.
I think this will blow up in many “feminist” faces
So, here I am, sitting at my desk, having been subjected to the fake outrage from nutters who can’t stop talking about SJW’s and being “woke” the past two weeks, and I’m having a hard time believing that rational people actually think these things are happening.
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It’s a different thing. Because of the dynamic between the sexes. Men can be that way and be taken seriously outside of that. And outside of pop culture aren’t taken seriously when they want to be sexual. Women are sexualized so even when they don’t want to be they aren’t taken seriously.
The answer is options. Let everyone be what they want to be. More options in RP especially is great.
For instance, sure men can be shirtless, but they can’t go around in a speedo. There is no transmog option for that. There should be. I’m sure there are people out there that would love it.
Giving women more options is not the removal of options. The same with men. It’s not reductive.
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We literally read an article about how He-Man is very problematic and ruins boys’ self-esteem and sets impossible standards and is too sexual in school in about 2010.
But was in Germany.
Society certainly looks harsher upon bare-chested women, but does that mean that bare-chested men aren’t in some way sexualized?
I feel like, because you are rightly identifying a difference in magnitude between two things, you are incorrectly assuming that the thing with a lesser magnitude therefore doesn’t exist at all. And that is very much not the case.
He-Man and the hypothetical Fem-Man would be at the centers of two different kinds of discourse, for sure, but that doesn’t mean He-man isn’t a sexualized character.
I want them to go the other way with it, make men look like strippers too. It’s about time for that male night elf heritage armor!
https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/a5t5tz/so_when_are_we_getting_night_elf_heritage_armor/
That’s not about sexualization. Because the article would’ve been referring to how He-man influences the self esteem of (typically heterosexual) boys.
They did say many, not all. My girls toons have skimpier mogs than my toons do.
And that’s great. But there are women like myself who like some of my characters to be covered. There should be a variety. Not less in one direction or the other.
And in the video the woman wasn’t asking for the removal of that stuff. Just more other options. Which shouldn’t be controversial.
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I’d say sexualizing storyline characters would be bad, but players doing whatever they feel like with mogs is fine.
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Just like I have a hard time believing that rational people deny science on so many biological facts, and how certain groups can protest without wearing a face diaper, while others are spreading the plague if they do. We live in a strange world, and by strange I mean a good chunk of our population are bathit crazy
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I look around the world and I see people taking everything “too seriously.” From sports, to hobbies, to video games, to book series, to food culture, and beyond. I think it’s just very human to take things and run with them. The problem seems to lie more in the fact that they take it seriously differently compared to less involved people, and it’s those people who think they’re taking it too seriously.
It’s like someone who just loves ketchup. They’ll put it on anything it goes with. For me, that’s silly. Ketchup is OK but it doesn’t need to go on everything. It’s not like they’re doing anything wrong I just think it’s weird. That’s a me problem, though.
Just like you thinking that people being invested in a game, or a hobby, or sports, enough that they have opinions about things you don’t care about isn’t a them problem. It’s a you problem.
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I don’t see a lot of fat balding men on the cover of Men’s Health.
Men and women have stereo-typically different avenues for fantasy. Kind of like attacking chick lit for unrealistic portrayals of men.
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I have said the entire time that it’s a matter of perception. My argument is merely that we shouldn’t fault the artists and that people should become consciously aware of the different standards that are applied to male and female characters. Whether He-man is sexualized slightly or not at all is besides the point anyway.
The solution to the issue in part involves covering up women less, not more. However, I don’t think the issue will ever completely resolve just because men and women are not the same. I don’t actually know for sure, but I assume that males just more readily think sexually about cartoon characters than females do.