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@mahne876: I feel like you're challenging me to a drinking game! Take a shot every time you write "gender studies." I'd be too hammered to even respond to this post at this rate! But let me attempt the old college try.
I addressed in my first post on this thread that there's a difference between designing sexy characters and designing sexually objectified characters. Any character can be sexy to any given person. Yes, muscular, shirtless men are generally considered to be sexy! No sane person would deny this. Also, interestingly enough, slender, fit ladies in skin-tight catsuits: also sexy! This game has many of them! Your mistake seems to be reducing "sexiness" to an equation determined by square inches of fabric over square inches of revealed skin. Solve for se-X, am I right?!
Shirtless men, while sexy, are not reducible in their designs to their shirtless-ness. They are not objectified; there is a character beyond their well-built pecs. In other words, Jax is not a male bimbo. People objected to the female character designs in MK9 because they weren't just sexy. In fact, they were seen to be in excess of sexiness, almost to the point of grotesque parody. It wasn't everyone's cup of tea! I could spend the next thirty minutes typing why some female characters in MK9 were sexually objectified, but really, would it really convince you of anything? You seem to have an automatic, knee-jerk hostile reaction to the very mention of the words "sexual objectification," attributing your resistance to *takes shot* "gender studies" (oh the horror!). But whether or not you believe the term has merit, it's not, by any means, some radical extremist concept. It's a fairly basic idea, with applications in both human psychology, philosophy, advertising, artistic design, and yes, "gender studies." *pours more whiskey* Maybe you could check out the wikipedia page for it! And by "you," I mean the people reading this who are not mahne876, because I'm pretty sure he's a little too afraid of a niche academic subfield to do his own research on the topic without parroting misapplied Orwellian paranoia every chance he gets!
Sadly, these willful misunderstandings proliferate when deep anxiety and fear of change take root. It's just...it's so sad to see people marshal so much anger and resistance over something like..."gender studies..." *finishes the bottle* to the point where they need to write the words "gender studies" *burps* so many times in a single post just to desperately convince themselves, through repetition, that an adjunct professor in Twin Falls writing a book on feminist literary interpretations of Henry Miller, getting paid $30,000 a year to teach four survey classes, is part of a secret international cabal to reduce Sonya's bust size in Mortal Kombat 11. But, you know, GENDER STUDIES!
Is there anyway that you, who is not a male, could refrain from appropriating our ideas of sexy?
That’s language you guys use.
The sophistry used to deny that scantily clad= sexier is too much for me.
Thus is what we get, lads. It doesn’t matter what attribute we look for, the same kind of rationalizations and jargon will be used.
“We feel like the female characters should not resemble 18 year olds in age. How many 18 year olds are effective fighters?”
then you end up with every female character being 45+, and you’re told that that’s attractive by a woman and there’s no objection you can make.
“Think about it: what fighter, who can lift a 250 lb man above her head, is dainty and physically delicate?”
thats for when mannish, nonfeminine characters become the norm.
“Think about it; wouldn’t it be better to have the female characters reflect real women? Besides, you’re a weirdo if you don’t like curvy women.”
that’s for when overweight and obese female characters become the norm.
Of course the fact that in a mixed competition, no female character in real life would survive the first round, but whatever.
They have determined to destroy this subculture and they are going to do it. At EVO, the sissies has to cut the feed because two Japanese models (actual “real women”) thought it would be funny to shake their boobs a little bit.
Wthe kinds of extremes you’re going to see:
”My name’s Kano, and I have white privilege. The Black Dragon needs more thieves, murderers, and arms dealers of color.”
Lol. Seems absurd, but this kind of thing has already happened in some areas. Remember when universities were havens for free speech? lol. Yeah. Change will be much more radical than anyone expects.
