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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 9340924" data-attributes="member: 11760">The second sentence should suggest to you that the reasoning in the first sentence is flawed.TSR D&D art was 100% built around the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Male_gaze" target="_blank">male gaze</a>. That doesn't mean viewers were supposed to be drooling over Aleena necessarily, but she's created to be imaginary girlfriend material for male hetero viewers -- not surprising, since that's who most of TSR's decision makers were, and how 1980s pop culture was generally constructed, plus or minus a Rocky Horror Picture Show showing at midnight at the local cineplex. (RHPS, of course, also features a scantily clad Susan Sarandon at arguably the height of her hotness, so even there ...)Brienne, and now WizKids' warrior, have other stuff they're worried about. If you want to date them, you'll need to let them clean off all the dragon blood first. There are plenty of people who find burly warrior women super sexy -- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f8sjzETQ5o" target="_blank">including hetero dudes</a> -- but it's not necessarily the same people who found Aleena attractive. The "we" in your argument has expanded to include other points of view not catered to by the traditional male gaze.</blockquote>