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<blockquote data-quote="TanithT" data-source="post: 5947914" data-attributes="member: 87695"><p>In the actual campaign material source images, where you are depicting female PC's and NPC's in order to flesh out character and world background, and they are fighting monsters and adventuring in hostile environments and otherwise doing the same exact stuff as the male adventurers? They should be wearing pretty much the same equipment, too. Because it's really, really stupid for them not to be. </p><p></p><p>The issue here is not "porn is bad", but "please don't make all the women in your world look like fashion plate bimbos who would be utterly incapable of defending themselves or of surviving the dungeon." Lingerie and prom dresses have a really sucky armor class. You wear them in the bedroom or the ballroom, not on the battlefield. </p><p></p><p>In any other material you want to produce like pin-up calendars, candid art of your character while she is in her bedroom relaxing or getting busy with other characters? Hey, have fun with that. That's what it's for. It's not stupid or demeaning or ridiculous in that context, and you don't send the message that this is all women that are good for and this is the only way a female character can be depicted. Because porn is fun, and it's okay for adults to have some. Nothing wrong there.</p><p></p><p>Fighting monsters in your underwear? With no pants? In a chainmail bikini? In a low-cut prom dress? That's stupid. And that's where it becomes obvious that the women in your world are useless for anything except being bimbos, because they sure as hell aren't getting anything else done while they are dressed like that. In a situation where you're supposed to be depicting them as actors and doers, as strong characters who have skills and strength and powers and spells, you are depicting them as sex objects whose primary asset is how they look. In fact they clearly care more about how they look than about minor details like actually getting through the adventure alive.</p><p></p><p>There's definitely a time and a place to dress up (or take it all off) and look sexy when you want to. But if your female characters <strong>never stop doing that</strong> long enough to do anything else, even when it is is suicidally stupid, it really detracts from them as characters. </p><p></p><p>It is maybe slightly more excusable if all of the men are dressed the same way, because then it's obvious that realism has flown totally out the window and you're depicting everybody romping around the fantasy landscape half-nekkid or in kinky costumes. Because it's fun, not because it's realistic. It's still stupid, but it's not targeting only one gender as being the stupid ones.</p><p></p><p>But if the women are portrayed as pin-up types who are dressed fashionably but foolishly for adventuring, while the men are in full armor and sensible clothes, please consider the message you're sending about their respective roles. It isn't a healthy one.</p><p></p><p>It only gets worse, or at least more obvious what you're doing, if you also use diminishing language to refer to the actual women whom you are inviting to participate. Please don't, FableStream. Thank you.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TanithT, post: 5947914, member: 87695"] In the actual campaign material source images, where you are depicting female PC's and NPC's in order to flesh out character and world background, and they are fighting monsters and adventuring in hostile environments and otherwise doing the same exact stuff as the male adventurers? They should be wearing pretty much the same equipment, too. Because it's really, really stupid for them not to be. The issue here is not "porn is bad", but "please don't make all the women in your world look like fashion plate bimbos who would be utterly incapable of defending themselves or of surviving the dungeon." Lingerie and prom dresses have a really sucky armor class. You wear them in the bedroom or the ballroom, not on the battlefield. In any other material you want to produce like pin-up calendars, candid art of your character while she is in her bedroom relaxing or getting busy with other characters? Hey, have fun with that. That's what it's for. It's not stupid or demeaning or ridiculous in that context, and you don't send the message that this is all women that are good for and this is the only way a female character can be depicted. Because porn is fun, and it's okay for adults to have some. Nothing wrong there. Fighting monsters in your underwear? With no pants? In a chainmail bikini? In a low-cut prom dress? That's stupid. And that's where it becomes obvious that the women in your world are useless for anything except being bimbos, because they sure as hell aren't getting anything else done while they are dressed like that. In a situation where you're supposed to be depicting them as actors and doers, as strong characters who have skills and strength and powers and spells, you are depicting them as sex objects whose primary asset is how they look. In fact they clearly care more about how they look than about minor details like actually getting through the adventure alive. There's definitely a time and a place to dress up (or take it all off) and look sexy when you want to. But if your female characters [B]never stop doing that[/B] long enough to do anything else, even when it is is suicidally stupid, it really detracts from them as characters. It is maybe slightly more excusable if all of the men are dressed the same way, because then it's obvious that realism has flown totally out the window and you're depicting everybody romping around the fantasy landscape half-nekkid or in kinky costumes. Because it's fun, not because it's realistic. It's still stupid, but it's not targeting only one gender as being the stupid ones. But if the women are portrayed as pin-up types who are dressed fashionably but foolishly for adventuring, while the men are in full armor and sensible clothes, please consider the message you're sending about their respective roles. It isn't a healthy one. It only gets worse, or at least more obvious what you're doing, if you also use diminishing language to refer to the actual women whom you are inviting to participate. Please don't, FableStream. Thank you. [/QUOTE]
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