Women and Armor!

[Fyrebrand]

This video is going to either be sexist or it's going to be some professional victim Anita Sarkeesian wannabe whining over nothing for pity donations/views. Either way I don't want to see it.

This thread has been going for 27 pages just fine, without you. No one is impressed by your willfully ignorant opinion of a video you didn't even watch, or that you have nothing relevant to say about the actual topic.

If you hadn't noticed, men used to wear tights and heels and preen themselves like birds of paradise then guess what happened? Society got stuck on the weird notion that if you were male and you put effort into your appearance you were gay. King Louis XIV (hehehe) of France even designed his own fancy shoes.

I have heard that pink was actually considered a masculine color, commonly associated with boys, up until as late as WW2 or some time around there..? But for whatever reason, things changed, and now most people would say pink is a "feminine" color and even object to a male wearing pink. There are probably a lot of people who assume it's always been like this, and that it's somehow the natural way of things. But that's fashion for you, a bunch of arbitrary nonsense that frankly I have little interest in or patience for.

I think it's profoundly bizarre that we've come to this point, where it's currently considered so damn important that female armor in a video game maintain a certain level of sexiness or reveal a lot more skin than the male counterpart. Simply asking for an option to the contrary, or even acknowledging that this trend exists, routinely attracts belligerent comments.

I'll bet there is some alternate universe somewhere, in which all the video games have females wearing yellow ponchos and green sombreros. And then somebody made a funny cartoon about a character trying to find a blue poncho or another style of hat, and gets pages of hostile comments and accusations.