Bikini Armor Battle Damage - Hypocrites and Sexy Art

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Also this is really minor all things considered, but in the drive for realism she's gone and sliced her own throat open by holding the bladed side against her neck.
 
Yaoi Huntress Earth said:
Today's NSFW redesign has me wondering, "Is it just me or do her boobs look off?"
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"We always welcome redesigns that are made with something else in mind than “can I fap to her?” "

Lots of artists have redrawn Red Sonja in ways that make her still empowering and tough, embracing such traits in a way that doesn't require her to be sexualized.

One particular example:

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"B-but muh cleavage, muh fapping fodder for fedora dudebros"

Fapping fodder for fedora dudebros still capture more of the essence of the character than that ridiculously retarded meth junkie Ozzie claims to be an "accurate redesign based on the Christorical period that she's based on".

Truly a misunderstood genius of our age.
 
Isn't Red heavily based on the Schlocky deliberately ridiculous genre that brought us Conan The Barbarian and Heavy Metal? Why is context a foreign word for these people?
 
Yaoi Huntress Earth said:
Today's NSFW redesign has me wondering, "Is it just me or do her boobs look off?"
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It's because the artist has simultaneously shrunk her breast size while giving them the kind of sag that's only seen with women of a much bigger cup size. I'm sure if asked about the nipples being place half-way under the boobs the response would be to point you to tribes in Africa that have never used bras and thus witness the effects of age/gravity much sooner, but if you ever actually look at the women in those tribes the general placement of the breasts on someone who's a B-cup or lower isn't really all that far off from a woman whose worn a bra all her life - the only difference being and the bra-wearing woman's will be rounder with a little more perk. That's not even getting into the fact that a woman's musculature also increases breast perk as the pectoral muscles are directly under the breasts and control at least part of their appearance.

For all their hemming and hawing about research and realism, they really aren't all that different from the creators they ree about in terms of slapping together random traits with no regards for realism as long as it plays into a specific aesthetic. Except this time instead of the aesthetic being "rule of cool" it's primary goal is to be conservative and "un-fappable."

On a different note, I really hate BABD's habit of posting links to similar topics, especially ones that seem to reference specifics posts that supposedly have evidence to back up whatever they're talking about, only for the link to redirect to a random tag for whatever that post was supposedly attributed to. It's always such a headache trying to sort through their posts since you're bound to see the most recent ones over and over.
 
I know they wish America would embrace nudity like their uggy-titted Red Sonja, but if it happened they would be miserable since many artists would try to make the boobs look good or at least not saggy. If you look at European or Japanese comics/manga, the breasts are nice and round.
 
Sun Shihong said:
"We always welcome redesigns that are made with something else in mind than “can I fap to her?” "

Lots of artists have redrawn Red Sonja in ways that make her still empowering and tough, embracing such traits in a way that doesn't require her to be sexualized.

One particular example:

andrey-vasilchenko-sonja.jpg

"B-but muh cleavage, muh fapping fodder for fedora dudebros"

Fapping fodder for fedora dudebros still capture more of the essence of the character than that ridiculously exceptional meth junkie Ozzie claims to be an "accurate redesign based on the Christorical period that she's based on".

Truly a misunderstood genius of our age.
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Accurate
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Accurate to what? Conan and his associated setting was created in a fictional era as an excuse for the writers to make shit up without doing too much research.
 
Thexenoclop said:
I have nothing really say about this just thought you guys would want to see this(the samus one im referring to btw)http://bikiniarmorbattledamage.tumblr.com/tagged/cosplay
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TL;DR: People who obviously never spoke with any woman sure do feel the most eager to mansplain what women really want from female video game characters.
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The thing that makes this infuriating is not only is are they insinuating that women who like or are indifferent to skimpier costumes are either nonexistent or somehow dishonest - in which case I'd love to see them try to explain the cosplayers who deliberately make costumes skimpier than canon or women in tabletop RPGs who willingly make their own characters not-BABD compliant - but it completely misses why people bring such women up.

Unlike BABD, no one has ever tried to claim that there aren't people who don't like revealing character designs or boob armor. Hell, a lot of their critics tend to like some of franchises BABD praises like the Soulsbourne games or FMA that also have more conservative female character designs. The real problem with BABD is that they aren't satisfied with just holding up the franchises that fall in line with their ideal design criteria. And when people are given the choice between agreeing with the people who think anything that doesn't follow that criteria shouldn't be allowed to exist and the people who essentially believe artists should just do whatever they want and anyone who doesn't like it can ignore it, most people are going to side with the latter.

EDIT: Forgot to add, I love how BABD frequently criticizes their own critics who point to women who do like their fair share of chain mail bikinis and skin tight suits as cleavage, when they're using a sample size of one woman to refute the claims of their opposition.
 
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Yaoi Huntress Earth said:
While I like this positive example, the thing that bugs me the most is that very narrow eyeslit on her helmet.
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Every once in a while BABD shares a decent design - usually from someone way outside their own circles - but again, the core problem with BABD as a whole can be summed up by this sentence here:
This is also a good opportunity to reiterate that here at BABD, we’re not against lady characters wearing dresses, or even revealing clothes, for the right occasion.
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The problem being that, when you go through their actual posts, the "right occasion" appears to be "never" seeing as how they've contradicted this point by bitching about shit that's deliberately tongue n' cheek, bitched about other designs that have similar designs to the owns linked (one I see the most is regular pants being "too tight" and being replaced with baggy ones) and I'm pretty sure here they're getting their panties in a twist over a game from an app store.
 
One Man Bland said:
Every once in a while BABD shares a decent design - usually from someone way outside their own circles - but again, the core problem with BABD as a whole can be summed up by this sentence here:

The problem being that, when you go through their actual posts, the "right occasion" appears to be "never" seeing as how they've contradicted this point by bitching about shit that's deliberately tongue n' cheek, bitched about other designs that have similar designs to the owns linked (one I see the most is regular pants being "too tight" and being replaced with baggy ones) and I'm pretty sure here they're getting their panties in a twist over a game from an app store.
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I'm sure they'd give the BDSM outfits from the webcomic, Sunstone, a pass. These kinds of people like that comic for a reason (probably the bisexual women in a gay relationship).
 
Technically not BABD, but I thought it should get an honorable mention here. Or would this go in SJW art? Although I'm surprised they didn't go after this one. On the other hand, the last time they went after SMT, they admitted they knew nothing about the series.
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