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Yaoi Huntress Earth said:
Stop Saying You Only Care About Quality Over Diversity: There are some good points, but these days diversity to people like this is more about throwing fits when people don't change the race, gender or sexuality of an established character to what they want; get angry when a white person is writing a POC or something that is out of their "genre" like rap, think that POC can't enjoy characters that don't look like them and are so fragile that everything offends them, or focus on gender and skin color over talent. Then scream racism when they don't their way.

I don't mind legacy characters like Ms Marvel and Mr. Terrific who are continuing a tradition when the original retires or dies. I'm sure that there are POC and women who are denied because of that. But, people like this are ruining the concept of diversity and turning it into something that is eye-rolling.
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How dare people want good works with representation!
http://www.themarysue.com/author/dan-van-winkle/
Haha, author's a pasty white dude.
 
Yaoi Huntress Earth said:
Stop Saying You Only Care About Quality Over Diversity: There are some good points, but these days diversity to people like this is more about throwing fits when people don't change the race, gender or sexuality of an established character to what they want; get angry when a white person is writing a POC or something that is out of their "genre" like rap, think that POC can't enjoy characters that don't look like them and are so fragile that everything offends them, or focus on gender and skin color over talent. Then scream racism when they don't their way.
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To be honest I DO think cultural appropriation is something that exists, but I also think there are different "degrees" of it. I'ts worse for a white guy to dress up as a Native American chief than a rapper, for instance.
 
Yaoi Huntress Earth said:
Apparently, the trio from Final Fantasy X-2 and their impractical, ugly skimpy outfits are perfectly ok. The sexiness/skimpiness is not male gazey, but is fun and silly. (The berserker class is not problematic.) Yuna's default outfit which has cleavage and hoochie-cutter shorts is an expression of her character development. These are the people that will bitch about Vampirella and Powergirl, Matt Taylor's shirt and Frank Cho's Spider-Gwen cover.
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Are those characters sacred cows for SJWs in general, like magical girls and Squirrel Girl? Or is it just the members of this website that like the characters enough to give them a pass?
 
Thiletonomics said:
Are those characters sacred cows for SJWs in general, like magical girls and Squirrel Girl? Or is it just the members of this website that like the characters enough to give them a pass?
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It's because they like the characters. That's why they were only mildly upset when Cersei and Jamie Lannister had sex in front of their incest child's corpse, they didn't give a fuck about Theon's torture, but when Sansa was raped by Ramsey Bolton, 'OMG THIS IS THE WORST THING EVAAAAAAH!'
 
Yaoi Huntress Earth said:
Apparently, the trio from Final Fantasy X-2 and their impractical, ugly skimpy outfits are perfectly ok. The sexiness/skimpiness is not male gazey, but is fun and silly. (The berserker class is not problematic.) Yuna's default outfit which has cleavage and hoochie-cutter shorts is an expression of her character development. These are the people that will bitch about Vampirella and Powergirl, Matt Taylor's shirt and Frank Cho's Spider-Gwen cover.
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One of those characters is underage too iirc.
 
Yaoi Huntress Earth said:
Yep, Rikku is 17 in the sequel. For fun, I ran her thief outfit through the bingo card and it nearly got a bingo, but 8 slots (I wasn't sure if she went into a cold climate so I didn't check that one) got checked.
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One of the earliest missions in X-2 has the group on a snow-capped mountain, if I remember right.
 
Thiletonomics said:
Are those characters sacred cows for SJWs in general, like magical girls and Squirrel Girl? Or is it just the members of this website that like the characters enough to give them a pass?
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I think it's because that game is filled with eye rolling amounts of lesbian subtext. Half the game is filled with Rikku/Yuna flirting (they're cousins by the way) and there's a minigame where Yuna massages one of the female villains to orgasm.




And then there's this shit where they all play boob grab in a hot spring. Skip to 1.45 for awkwardness that makes Titus's laugh seem tame.

 
So the game that appeals to every 12 year old boy's masturbation fantasies is definitely not sexist, but I'm going to continue to bitch and moan about Catwoman's outfit anyway.
 
Big Boss said:
So the game that appeals to every 12 year old boy's masturbation fantasies is definitely not sexist, but I'm going to continue to bitch and moan about Catwoman's outfit anyway.
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That would also probably explain their fixation on magical girls, but I don't understand the appeal for Squirrel Girl.
 
Ruin said:
I think it's because that game is filled with eye rolling amounts of lesbian subtext. Half the game is filled with Rikku/Yuna flirting (they're cousins by the way) and there's a minigame where Yuna massages one of the female villains to orgasm.


https://youtube.com/watch?v=ofWEWnWjOq0

And then there's this shit where they all play boob grab in a hot spring. Skip to 1.45 for awkwardness that makes Titus's laugh seem tame.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=nLlvM6OziYI
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I think I just felt my IQ drop and this is coming from someone who liked Lollipop Chainsaw.

Thiletonomics said:
That would also probably explain their fixation on magical girls, but I don't understand the appeal for Squirrel Girl.
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Squirrel Girl (the Erica version) is ugly which makes her unappealing to CIS het males. So that could be it.
 
Erica Squirrel always makes me think of Jerri Blank
https://sneed-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/6d/ed/75/6ded755a041bdca75b799d7cce6d7f33.jpg
 
Thiletonomics said:
Are those characters sacred cows for SJWs in general, like magical girls and Squirrel Girl? Or is it just the members of this website that like the characters enough to give them a pass?
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I don't get why magical girls, especially Madoka are seen as sacred cows.
I get the new Squirrel Girl because she's not attractive or threatening to most of them.
 
Problematic Kawaii said:
I don't get why magical girls, especially Madoka are seen as sacred cows.
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Female empowerment, mostly.

Well, that and Madoka Magica was probably one of the really big magical girl titles that's come out in recent years, what with its poignant story, its memorable characters, and its unique art style. The anime gained a really big following and just became extremely fucking popular on the Internet, which, of course, made it something that SJW's heard about and, well, OMG WOMYN KICKING ASS MUST PROMOTE AS AWESOME BLAH BLAH BLAH.

It's something they can turn around to echo their message, even though Madoka Magica doesn't really have any feminist ideals at all (unless you count the female cast... which is the whole fucking point of a Mahou Shoujo anime).
 
Problematic Kawaii said:
I don't get why magical girls, especially Madoka are seen as sacred cows.
I get the new Squirrel Girl because she's not attractive or threatening to most of them.
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I think Sailor Moon was a lot of these women's gateway anime so they'd have some nostalgic feelings for it.
 
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