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What do you think about 'reverse fanservice' where men are subjected to panty shots, like with Senshi?

Senshi isn't 'fanservice' in a sincere sense, it's a joke. A joke by both the author and the fanbase.

The problem with the way women are objectified in media isn't solved by objectifying men as well. Because men still get to NOT be objectified without anyone pitching a shitfit over it.

Meanwhile the pushback against the objectification of women in media has been experiencing its own pushback both from extremely online faux-leftists who think hyping up hyper-fetishized outfits in games is some statement against the puritans they're hallucinating, AND from extremely gross men who throw tantrums when female characters in video games don't look like anime jailbait.

And the difference between those two is the difference between an orange and a slightly overripe orange.

But pretty much from the moment we started talking about objectification, there was always this subset of people who don't want things to change trying to find some way to do "Tit Ninja" but make it make sense. There was always that question of "How do we make female characters sexy, without objectifying them."

And the problem has always been viewing "sexy" as a requirement.

There is a huge diversity of design for male characters. They can be hot, but they can also be dweeby, feminine, obscenely masculine, or just plain butt-fucking ugly.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but last year at the Game Awards, a guy won a performance award for playing Andy Dick by way of Stewie Griffin.

Even when female characters get to be something other than a pin-up model, like if they get to be jacked as shit, they're still jacked in a strictly feminine sense: Snatched waist, pretty face, expertly done hair, they just also have guns for days. Or how about how "plus sized" is still interpreted to preserve that hourglass figure.

We are still designing female characters to be ogled first and foremost. And making a few of them tokenly butch while still preserving that idea isn't really a change.

And the moment a female character is designed to not look like that, the grossest men you've ever been glad not to meet complain about 'uglification.' Which wouldn't itself be a problem if there weren't a bunch of performatively left-leaning, pro-diverisity people also whining that the puritans are de-sexualizing everything.

You're not "sexually liberated." You're a gentrified basement dweller.

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do not. respond to my doylist criticism with a watsonian explanation.

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sai-anon acting like she aint a grown-ass woman who can just choose to not engage with your stuff. you're allowed to like, dislike, and engage with whatever media you want and it's so stupid that all they can whinge about is "wahhh she just DOESN'T GET IT"

why do you think so many of these stalkers keep crying about you "not getting it" when tbh you have completely valid takes? aside from transphobia, naturally

Fans have always been hyper-protective (possessive) of media, and over the years they've cycled through different ways of dismissing any critical voice. It's not just me, fandoms have been shrieking "YOU JUST DON'T GET IT" at people for over a decade. Longer in fact. It's the de-facto hipster response.

Given that these animals in particular seem to operate under the delusion that I single-handedly destroyed Steven Universe's reputation, they seem to be terrified I'll do it to any other media I talk about.

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im always surprised by how funny it is cause for some reason im just expecting garbage-but its ALWAYS fuckin great.

The speed at which the jokes move is also like. i usually find jokey shows that move really fast tiring and annoying-they exhaust me-but this show is like. its really managed to hit that ADD/ADHD brain speed and its nice.

i keep forgetting how good psi cops is.

it's like it was made for kait and me, it's absolutely our brand of stupid humour, gets right in my brain and scratches an itch i didn't know i had.

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brooding men who cannot communicate their feelings if their life depended on it are only hot when they're fictional. if i have to deal with one in real life i will curse him and pray for his downfall every night before i go to bed

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almost 3000 people are currently looking at this jacket with sales skyrocketing lmao

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eight episodes is not a full season of television

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Finally got around to watching the fnaf movie and my god it was good. Like. Yes, as a fnaf fan it was GOOD but even without that background, the character writing and build up and sibling connection was really strong and enjoyable

I'm so excited for the sequel eeeee

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eight episodes is not a full season of television

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eight episodes is not a full season of television

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i hate when ppl act like the only reason to not like a "sad" ending is because you can't take it or whatever. personally as a tragedy enjoyer, i hate a poorly written ending. i hate an ending that is just kind of a bummer. i hate an ending that feels mean-spirited to the audience. i hate an ending that's redundant. i love a sad ending that is thematically consistent, poignant, and bespoke to the rest of its narrative.

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I feel like some people need to relearn Genre Expectations... "Man, this tragedy sucks!!! Why didn't they just do XYZ, then everything could have ended happily!!" well, then it wouldn't be a tragedy, would it. "Man, this lighthearted teen romcom is terrible, it's so sappy and unrealistic!!" Well, yeah. If it had been gritty and dark, it wouldn't have been a lighthearted romcom, would it. Is the writing actually bad or are you just trying to order a milkshake from a Home Depot

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my one piece of legally permitted overwatch fanart. I need him to have a "cute" skin.

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the Thing about janeway is that she is and always will forever be That Bitch. actual fucking icon. coffee cup in one hand plasma rifle in the other. she came here prepared to fuck around and find out. “the borg are the terror of the delta quadrant” WRONG janeway is the terror of the delta quadrant and she looks sick as hell doing it

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After what happened to Arcane, and what happened years ago to Game of Thrones, how do all these good shows go back so easily?

These shows go bad because of decisions made early on that snowball into problems later.

People will applaud a show for covering "dark themes" when it has a shitload of gore and sexual abuse in it, despite having nothing to say about any of those things, and then get surprised when the pizza cutter was a pizza cutter.

People just assume it's going to work out despite 7 seasons of doing nothing but wallow in bullshit.

With Arcane, the writing was on the wall immediately. By Mikaila's own admission, the show was constantly building characters up and then smacking them back down again in some weird pain cycke as early as season 1, and people were seemingly hoping that would just randomly stop?

When Mikaila first showed me Isha, I said "That kid is going to die." Because the show up to this point had been misery porn upon misery porn. Even the sapphic ship everyone was salivating over was being poisoned by a combination Oedipus and Sister Complex.

So they show you this wide eyed little baby and shows then all being a happy family, of course they were going to kill that kid. Because the show is about misery and musical crescendos in place of having any real emotional resonance.

People applaud surface level dark themes and then get surprised when the show is shallow. And there's no real solution other than to just... Stop getting so attached to media based on tertiary aspects like "there's a gay couple" or "it made a token nod to serious mental illness."