MoonSong
Rules-lawyering drama queen but not a munchkin
By placing certain viewpoints as "out of bounds", you are most certainly asserting your own as being superior.
Art has often been at odds with social norms, and is often offensive. If you do not agree, I invite you to visit more galleries and art fairs. It's nice, having an open mind. "To each their own" seems to be a dirty phrase around here.
You do not get to tell me that my opinions are out of line, THAT is offensive to me. But I wouldn't try and censor you. Because I'm an adult. I don't need your approval, I'm confident enough in my own worldview, living in one of the most liberal cities in the world, that art wants to be free. The more people try to put limits on what art (or ideas) are deemed acceptable, the more they will find themselves vexed that others do not agree with them.
Limits on acceptable language are arbitrary and silly, I said nothing that would be considered offensive to someone living in this modern era, it actually surprises me that what I wrote is even controversial. At all. Maybe it's because I hang out in more liberal circles, with lots of artist friends.
First of all, pictures in D&D books aren't Art, they are Illustrations (this is a very important distinction, artists speak for themselves, Illustrators speak for their clients), despite they being commonly called art, illustrations aren't speech, they are instead communication tools, calling for more tame representations detracts nothing from the person drawing and painting them, they are free to depict whatever they want on their spare time. Also we aren't debating the artistic merit of them, rather their content since the oversexualization of women is detrimental to the brand, because it alienates a good portion of the potential player base (women) and keeps it from reaching a younger demographic (children) so:
The opinions of prudes, IMO, should be ignored when judging art.
Comes really as rude and uncalled for, and entirely out of the blue and entirely perpendicualr to the issue, it is like posting "Kobolds should be ratlike and you are crazy if you don't like them that way" in the midst of a conversation about fighter Attack Bonusses.