Well that's the thing, they don't acknowledge it. And if a female character has a more sensible look? They bulk up the armor and turn her into a frumpy dump knuckle-nosed neanderthal because only
The problem with BABD and their ilk insisting that their yaoi is "satire" is that they undermine themselves when the supposedly satrical pieces are indistinguishable from their porn. 9/10 times when you follow the link to the artist of the "parody" it turns out they'll have dozens of other pieces exactly like it that are labeled as straightforward porn or fetish material. It calls their motives and credibility into question because whatever point their were trying to make it undercut by how obvious that it is that they're getting off to it - it's especially egregious in BABD's case since there's been multiple instances where they've shared 100% self-admitted fetish art made by someone who doesn't give as shit about bikini armor just to sperg about "muh satire," and sometimes reblogging sources that they could've only found if they'd been following porn blogs. The Hawkeye Initiative got torn a new asshole for the exact same reason when it became clear they couldn't give a shit about their criticisms in favor of having an excuse to indulge kinks and creep on Jeremy Renner.
The other thing to keep in mind is that the line between a sexual fantasy and a power fantasy is pretty much non-existent, and many works are frequently both at the exact same time. If they weren't, there wouldn't be so many women cosplaying the revealing costumes, female artists wouldn't be making their own characters to have skimpy costumes, and 1/5th of Twilight wouldn't have been dedicated to describing Edward's abs. Hell, one of my favorite artists Brian Bolland once made a Wonder Woman cover that he described as almost being like a Rorschach test of fantasy because of how many men and women found the scenario to either be intimidating/powerful or hot.
Uhm, no. It's just sexy art, interspaced with blatant, gross yaoi, that, even if legit of "parody" intent, reaches the lows of a bad hentai game.
They just refuse to believe women don't usualy hate themselves as much as they do (as yaoi-crazed gals obviously hate themselves and often entire female population).
Interesting! We must see very different participants in the event then. From what I’ve seen among my own art friends is people who actively hate yaoi fangirl types drawing stupid revealing outfits for shits and giggles. (I’ll admit I’ve never seen the scope of the event very far beyond personal acquaintances)
Generally, with these types, personal agenda overrides an artist's intent unless multiple people point it out and then they'll either quietly remove their support or apologize(see: "I'm sorry for putting a massive bulge on my depiction of a transwoman") before deleting said apology in a month hoping the hate dies down.
Yes and a decade later they still have fans. Remaster or sequel now.
I was not prepared for what I saw when I followed that link.
I will file this under dad joke.
I can't tell if this person is ironic or legit mad.
And that's not the only person whose called them on it, either.
I will admit that the sight of historical Nero with big anime tiddies and wearing a frilly dress made me laugh harder than expected.
If you scroll down, you'll find the call out.
Most tumblr blogs aren't set up like theirs and are usually easy to figure out. I dunno why, but it's like BABD's blog is set up like an unholy lovechild of tumblr and facebook.
