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<blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 6303676" data-attributes="member: 58197">The purpose of the Hawkeye test is to determine if a female character is being portrayed in a sexualized way. In itself, it's descriptive, not prescriptive. When somebody complains about something failing the Hawkeye test, there is an implied &quot;This is a situation in which it's not appropriate for this character to be portrayed in a sexualized way.&quot;I do ballroom dancing, and my female counterparts routinely dress and pose in ways that would fail the Hawkeye test. That's fine! Looking glamorous and sexy is a big part of ballroom for many people. Likewise, if a D&amp;D book contains art showing the PCs attending a ball at the royal palace, and some of the female PCs are in cleavage-baring gowns, there's nothing wrong with that. It's appropriate to the situation. The Monster Manual entry for &quot;succubus&quot; should fail the Hawkeye test (although if the corresponding entry for &quot;incubus&quot; isn't equally sexualized, that's a different problem). Et cetera.Where it becomes a problem is when you've got characters in the heat of combat or slogging through a dungeon, striking &quot;brokeback&quot; poses or wearing stainless steel bras and garter belts. That's where the Hawkeye test becomes useful: It's a yardstick for saying, &quot;Yeah, okay, this character is being sexualized in this image. If this is a scenario where that doesn't make sense, we got a problem.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dausuul, post: 6303676, member: 58197"] The purpose of the Hawkeye test is to determine if a female character is being portrayed in a sexualized way. In itself, it's descriptive, not prescriptive. When somebody complains about something failing the Hawkeye test, there is an implied "This is a situation in which it's not appropriate for this character to be portrayed in a sexualized way." I do ballroom dancing, and my female counterparts routinely dress and pose in ways that would fail the Hawkeye test. That's fine! Looking glamorous and sexy is a big part of ballroom for many people. Likewise, if a D&D book contains art showing the PCs attending a ball at the royal palace, and some of the female PCs are in cleavage-baring gowns, there's nothing wrong with that. It's appropriate to the situation. The Monster Manual entry for "succubus" [i]should[/i] fail the Hawkeye test (although if the corresponding entry for "incubus" isn't equally sexualized, that's a different problem). Et cetera. Where it becomes a problem is when you've got characters in the heat of combat or slogging through a dungeon, striking "brokeback" poses or wearing stainless steel bras and garter belts. That's where the Hawkeye test becomes useful: It's a yardstick for saying, "Yeah, okay, this character is being sexualized in this image. If this is a scenario where that doesn't make sense, we got a problem." [/QUOTE]

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