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<blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 6302847" data-attributes="member: 2067">The most appropriate response seems to be this:[ATTACH]61735[/ATTACH][ATTACH]61736[/ATTACH]Or, as you put it,The perspective on the basketball players' bodies (where the one on the right is &quot;facing&quot; the camera) and the billowing clothes make the curve look more dramatic. Y'know, if you don't dispute that the PHB woman is presented as a pretty lady, the exact angle of the curve of her back doesn't even really matter. &quot;Well, if her back angle is less than 40 degrees, clearly she's not being sexualized&quot; is not a real counterargument. The broader point remains, and that's the important bit. If she's presented as a pretty lady, she's being sexualized. That may or may not be a problem for any of us in particular, but denying it would be pretty ludicrous. Just because she's not in a chainmail bikini doesn't mean she's not treated as a thing of aesthetic beauty in that moment, and as long as that's true, it is potentially problematic.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="I'm A Banana, post: 6302847, member: 2067"] The most appropriate response seems to be this: [ATTACH=CONFIG]61735._xfImport[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]61736._xfImport[/ATTACH] Or, as you put it, The perspective on the basketball players' bodies (where the one on the right is "facing" the camera) and the billowing clothes make the curve look more dramatic. Y'know, if you don't dispute that the PHB woman is presented as a pretty lady, the exact angle of the curve of her back doesn't even really matter. "Well, if her back angle is less than 40 degrees, clearly she's not being sexualized" is not a real counterargument. The broader point remains, and that's the important bit. If she's presented as a pretty lady, she's being sexualized. That may or may not be a problem for any of us in particular, but denying it would be pretty ludicrous. Just because she's not in a chainmail bikini doesn't mean she's not treated as a thing of aesthetic beauty in that moment, and as long as that's true, it is potentially problematic. [/QUOTE]

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