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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sunseeker" data-source="post: 5275941">Not only is the person calling them sexist, but racist as well, the original article, as well as the more recent one both make references to the fact that this "pinup" was white, and their comparison was a naked black slave under an oppressive white santa.  Needless to say, there are FAR more issues at hand with this particular writer than meets the eye.  Even if it was a respectable image, say, a jolly old santa and wife, I suspect the complaint would have been about how there were no characters of color.  Had the Santa and wife been mixed(say, black white), then there would be a question of why the woman has to be white.  If both races were non-white, the question would likely be why they're celebrating a white holiday like christmas and not a racial holiday like Kawanza or Ramadan.While the author by claims that this is not the case, the fact that they're making these arguments meants they want to show that in their mind, sexist portrayls of women are tantamount to slavery.  Anyone with experience in arguments knows that people who are quick to use slavery or nazi's in the argument are people who are less interested in actual dialog and more about winning.To add to this, the author added nothing in the way of constructive critique, simply just started yelling at them at their horrid sexist ways.  In fact, she takes great pains to select the most asinine comments posted on the original blog as a reference in the second.  In fact she even responds to the nearly 10 comments posted immediately on her blog that are quite reasonable and well-defined rebuttals, taking her time to attack several of them with double-edged comments, such as "you made a good post, but you used to be a troll, so you're wrong."  She even mentions that her outfit is similar to Seoni's normal outfit, and yet, NOW it's sexist and racist.  As I said before, there's more to her argument than she's letting on.  And out of curiosity, I went and looked up images of the character.  Sometimes there are  good reasons to cry foul, however, to complain about this ONE depiction of the character and NOT complain about her normal appearance?  Motives, somebody has them.IMO, lets turn this argument on it's head, what if it was a male character, wearing a loin-cloth made from a stocking and a santa hat?  Would that still be sexist?  Would women still be complaining?  If men didn't complain would it then NOT be sexist?  Is an image wrong so long as even one person complains about it?</blockquote>

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