Bikini Armor Battle Damage - Hypocrites and Sexy Art

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MT Foxtrot said:
I loves me some Vallejo and Frazetta artwork.

I only get salty if fans of them try to claim it's also practical. It makes an awesome image, but you'd be a fucking idiot to fight in that shit.
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Maybe they're such a skilled swordman/woman that they don't get hit? Conan and Red Sonja are both top of the food chain. They don't complain about covered up kung-fu characters, men and women, fighting with swords or spears while dressed in linen or silk. They're like children with a notion of a fantasy RPG system. They should do an expose on magic and how it's all bunk, it doesn't work.
 
Smaug's Smokey Hole said:
Maybe they're such a skilled swordman/woman that they don't get hit?
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I stand by my assessment, that it's far from practical and believable. The caveat is that Hyboria is far from a practical and believable setting. It's fantastical, bombastic, and brutal, and thus, the style works for it.

Smaug's Smokey Hole said:
They should do an expose on magic and how it's all bunk, it doesn't work.
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In the real world and a realistic setting, it doesn't. Good thing Greyhawk/Faerun/ect... isn't the real world and realistic.
 
Corn Flakes said:
I miss that bitchy artist so much. Wencenworks' lukewarm crypto-misogynistic takes are just boring without also giving us poofy pants to make fun of.
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One of my favorites was when she tried to "fix" Skye Mathers by giving her a crutch for disability representation only to fail in realizing that she signed her death warrant. You see, Skye would be shifting all her weight and hobbling on that thing that it would make using a sword successfully with the other hand a burden.

Oh, yeah, there was also the woman she gave a mustache to and I think she HC her as a lesbian as well.
 
Yaoi Huntress Earth said:
One of my favorites was when she tried to "fix" Skye Mathers by giving her a crutch for disability representation only to fail in realizing that she signed her death warrant. You see, Skye would be shifting all her weight and hobbling on that thing that it would make using a sword successfully with the other hand a burden.

Oh, yeah, there was also the woman she gave a mustache to and I think she HC her as a lesbian as well.
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And this is proof that shit can always get worse. I never thought I'd look back at those posts and think to myself that these were the good ol' days.
 
Corn Flakes said:
And this is proof that shit can always get worse. I never thought I'd look back at those posts and think to myself that these were the good ol' days.
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Someone should ask what happened to her. I would, but I used to post on the comment section and they weren't too happy with me. So they probably remember me.
 
Yaoi Huntress Earth said:
Red Sonja gets attention again and Wencenworks thinks he's got the upper hand on dudebros by demanding that Conan gets the same attention.
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I think anybody who's ever read any of Howards works, never mind the rest of the weird tales set, can tell you these guys were basically all nerds before being a nerd was cool. What that translates too is they were all very, very, horny boys. Most Conan stories I've read involve a busty hot lady just kind of "being there" because either he wanted to give the magazine something sexy to put on the cover or he was just straight up horny and didn't have access to good porn because it was the 30s and this motherfucker lived in fucking rural Texas.

I would say cut the poor guy some slack and just let him fantasize about sexy barbarian ladies but he's dead and nobody believes in slack anymore anyway.

I'm sure for a lot of girls it is extremely alienating that popular female characters in comics and stuff are almost always these giant boobed monstrosities that were clearly ripped out of the id of some virginal weirdo like Howard. Same time I'm not gonna tell women to stop lusting after Jason Mamoa because he makes my frumpy ass look bad
 
feedtheoctopus said:
I think anybody who's ever read any of Howards works, never mind the rest of the weird tales set, can tell you these guys were basically all nerds before being a nerd was cool. What that translates too is they were all very, very, horny boys. Most Conan stories I've read involve a busty hot lady just kind of "being there" because either he wanted to give the magazine something sexy to put on the cover or he was just straight up horny and didn't have access to good porn because it was the 30s and this motherfucker lived in fucking rural Texas.

I would say cut the poor guy some slack and just let him fantasize about sexy barbarian ladies but he's dead and nobody believes in slack anymore anyway.

I'm sure for a lot of girls it is extremely alienating that popular female characters in comics and stuff are almost always these giant boobed monstrosities that were clearly ripped out of the id of some virginal weirdo like Howard. Same time I'm not gonna tell women to stop lusting after Jason Mamoa because he makes my frumpy ass look bad
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Meanwhile,

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These were extremely popular around the time Howard's work had its revival in the 80s. And, ironically, they're still popular today even as nerdy fare like Conan and Red Sonja became more and more niche. Even back in the 30s there was a lot of saucy literature in general. Young women with their little scandalous books were being complained about since the 1700s.

I don't even have a point. I just think it's interesting that there's always been plenty of horny to go around, for both men and women. It's just different horny for different tastes.
 
Corn Flakes said:
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These were extremely popular around the time Howard's work had its revival in the 80s. And, ironically, they're still popular today even as nerdy fare like Conan and Red Sonja became more and more niche. Even back in the 30s there was a lot of saucy literature in general. Young women with their little scandalous books were being complained about since the 1700s.

I don't even have a point. I just think it's interesting that there's always been plenty of horny to go around, for both men and women. It's just different horny for different tastes.
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Female sexuality is usually a lot less brutally physical then it is for men. Like ya know, you ask most guys what they're into and they go "big tits yo". Ask women and you'll get some extremely vague spiel like "Oh ya know I just like confidence and like, how he carries himself..." Sure most women like a tall guy with broad shoulders and that kind of shit, but they usually got to have some sort of context before they care. That's why most erotic stuff aimed at women is cheap romance novels and things like that.

Also why I think a lot of them look at the kind of fantasies men have in media and just immediately say it's dehumanizing. Maybe it is to an extent. But sexuality is just innate in people, and they like what they like. It feels like their solution to objectification is some sort of puritan rejection of sex in general, which I just find pretty regressive in its own right.
 
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