Lol
I somehow like you Twig
Eventhough you're not nice to me
If this thread reaches 100 pages more I might even become against Quiet lol
;-)
Ha! You're probably right; I probably am not nice to you. Sometimes you say some goofy ass shit, like that one there about the ratings, and it makes me go like
what. But I should be better.
FWIW, I have noticed that you seem more willing to step over the line that you had drawn before, and that's a good thing. I do think you have shown more understanding.
I think you're also still missing a lot of what people are trying to convey.
Number one on that list, I think, is not that it's so much about any one individual instance. It's about the ubiquity of it across all things. Cammy doesn't need to dress like Guile. But when badass dudes like Guile are the norm for men, and sexualized women like Cammy are the norm for women, that's where the problem is.
We can argue about a single instance all day, and that's often what ends up happening because humans like to boil it down into the base components, and doing so requires examining one instance after another to the nth degree. But we do that so that we recognize the patterns when we see them again.
I've said before that I think 2B is a cool design. Other people disagree with me. I can see why they disagree with me. I even actually don't disagree with them. I just feel the badassery outweighs the sexualization, for me personally. I also know that if designs like 2B with her high heels and skirt slit revealing underwear weren't so overwhelmingly common, 2B probably wouldn't be brought up as often as she is. In fact, I think it's safe to say that if 2B was an exception rather than the norm, nobody would have any complaints, because we'd be living in that perfect world where women aren't super sexualized. It's for that reason that it's valuable to examine 2B, even for me, someone who likes her.
The same probably even goes for Quiet, but I dunno, she's
particularly egregious.
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Also speaking of high heels, as a complete aside, I've never found the look of high heels to be attractive in a sexual sense. I legit think they look
cool, though. Maybe I'm a fashion geek and I haven't realized it, yet...