Steph (crisis version)1d ago

One thing I love about Resident Evil: Requiem is that in my YouTube browsings I have so far seen only a handful of videos where Grace is modded into a sexier outfit... and about three billion videos where Leon Kennedy has been modded to remove his shirt.

Nature is healing. The balance is being redressed.

Show threadSteph (crisis version)1d ago

Like, I'm actually all for sexy characters in visual narrative media. My problem has been that historically only the women are sexualised, and even then only a very specific TYPE of female character is allowed to be sexy, to cater to a generic straight white male gaze, and this is boring and misogynistic.

Redress the balance. What do lesbians find sexy? Gay men? Straight women? Queers of an ambiguous nature? If you're going to have hot characters, I want to see a full fucking RAINBOW of hot characters, thank you.

Show threadEliza MB1d ago

@astronomerritt

And what even is the straight white male gaze? Sure there are tropes which are deemed sexy at a particular point in time according to popular culture but clearly straight white men don't all lust after the same woman or even the same 'type' of woman.

Show threadSteph (crisis version)
@OneInterestingFact This is absolutely a great point. There will always be straight men who prefer women who don't fit whatever beauty norm is currently dominant. But the nature of marketing is to hit that common denominator and to appeal to the widest amount of the target demographic, and this is how you get boring uninspired female characters and it's how you get boring uninspired media.
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Show threadRichard Hendricks23h ago
@astronomerritt @OneInterestingFact As shown in Mercury, Freddy et at, 1978; and confirmed by Mix a Lot, Sir et al, 1992.