#kinda ilke how dt glomgold's body is treated........Bad!!! but in a whole another way

[mit3c]

there are actually a lot of male characters that are more human and "attractive" but hey are either one off or background characters. Storkules and his Donald statue are big ones but between the head and crotch areas everybody is essentially a three fingered human.

yeah that’s true for a lot of different duck media.. the more humanoid ones have more modest fashion. any media, any time, you don’t see the gyro shaped ones pantslessbut it doesnt change that female bodies aren’t treated the same as men and, weirdly enough, in the thirties it was cool for donna to go around naked except for the shawl around her shoulders (which is coherent with donald only wearing a top), and in 2017 you can’t show an adult woman duck without pants…. while their male counterparts (so like, same body type) go around butt naked. weird. that dissonance is further accentuated bc girls tend to have more elaborate hairstyle and accessories too. if you’re gonna make the characters more humanoid, to the point showing their butt and crotch is obscene…shouldn’t male and female be held to the same standard?so like… i’m not saying DT17 is Bad And Worse, i’m saying it’s perpetuating the dimorphism in new ways because the characters are looking less, less birdy than previous incarnations. it’s trying really hard with female characters, and it did good things in that regards, but Meh, we’re still not there

(and i’m talking abt design choices only but it ties with the characterization of girls in general and…..yea)

idk if your ask was about dt17 specifically bc you mentioned storkules or in general, but I think even the tall humanoid birds you find in say, PKNA or Double Duck, their body is not treated the same at all as the girls, I don’t see focus on their chest, waist, ass and legs…. it’s not just the issue of female being more anthro than male, it’s also that females Are portrayed as sexy. pkna/dd being the extreme example because it takes inspiration from super hero comics…but if you look up daisy in classic cartoons she’s plenty sexualized already ; in modern ones she sometimes gets a thin waist and boobs, and this is perpetuated in DT17. yeah, this isn’t as bad as sciarrone girls next to little ducky donald, but is it..Really necessary to signal a character’s feminity by giving them boobs…….. 

(btw i don’t have a problem at all with women being attractive and traditionally feminine. it’s good and everything associated with traditional feminity deserve to be portrayed in a good light: og webby wearing big pink bows, loving dolls and animals, being kind and compassionate is a GOOD thing, HDL belittling her because “ew girls” isn’t.)