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<blockquote data-quote="Felon" data-source="post: 5948206" data-attributes="member: 8158"><p>To whom do I ask these questions? If I ask myself, the answer is just a reflection of my own disposition, not the originator's intents. Personally, I don't see a lot of cheesecake fetish women these days. What I see are characters that are drawn to look cool, depicted to look like badasses, and that often means *not* dressing in highly-protective but bulky and absurd-looking armor. Nobody fantasizes about being the person in the attack-dog chew-toy suit.</p><p></p><p>Let's take a notable fantasy icon: Xena. Is she cheesecake, or a strong female role model? The show ran long enough that anyone who followed the show probably doesn't think it's the former, but if all you had to go by was one picture, it would be easy to just roll your eyes.</p><p></p><p>And why does a fantasy character dress lightly? Well, maybe fantasy characters have defensive capabilities we don't. Xena wouldn't be better-suited to fighting thirty guys with plate armor than she would with her wire-fu. </p><p></p><p></p><p>Thing is, Fablestream is saying they're not being sexist, and others aren't buying it. So, "address sexism by not being sexist" doesn't seem to do the trick. It's more like "address sexism by not being sexist in anyone's opinion". And that's not tenable, because then you have to cater to the hyper-sensitive.</p><p></p><p>That's the part of political correctness that drives reasonable people nuts.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Felon, post: 5948206, member: 8158"] To whom do I ask these questions? If I ask myself, the answer is just a reflection of my own disposition, not the originator's intents. Personally, I don't see a lot of cheesecake fetish women these days. What I see are characters that are drawn to look cool, depicted to look like badasses, and that often means *not* dressing in highly-protective but bulky and absurd-looking armor. Nobody fantasizes about being the person in the attack-dog chew-toy suit. Let's take a notable fantasy icon: Xena. Is she cheesecake, or a strong female role model? The show ran long enough that anyone who followed the show probably doesn't think it's the former, but if all you had to go by was one picture, it would be easy to just roll your eyes. And why does a fantasy character dress lightly? Well, maybe fantasy characters have defensive capabilities we don't. Xena wouldn't be better-suited to fighting thirty guys with plate armor than she would with her wire-fu. Thing is, Fablestream is saying they're not being sexist, and others aren't buying it. So, "address sexism by not being sexist" doesn't seem to do the trick. It's more like "address sexism by not being sexist in anyone's opinion". And that's not tenable, because then you have to cater to the hyper-sensitive. That's the part of political correctness that drives reasonable people nuts. [/QUOTE]
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