cumaeansibyl:

mercy-misrule:

lornacrowley:

ladygolem:

diabolicedict:

boyexemplified:

songsaboutswords:

allthingswittyandneko:

I want you all to look at this picture. What do you see?

Let me tell you what I see.

First of all, yes, I see that her breasts are cupped by armor that appears to resemble demon hands groping her. I also notice that she’s not wearing pants. While the overall wardrobe is unique in that I’ve never seen anything quite like it before - no two fantasy armors are ever really alike - it’s also a typical fantasy armor for a female character, with quite a bit of sex appeal to it.

But you want to know what else I see?

I see a tiara. This tells me that either she’s a regal figure of utmost importance, or she’s a successful adventurer with enough gold to afford expensive and enchanted equipment. I see demonic imagery all over her - her pauldron, her belt, and particularly the beelzebub-looking faces on her swords, meant to inspire fear in her opponents. I see a pair of double-edged longswords, and the person holding them has the muscular, toned body of a woman who knows damn well how to use them. The emblem on her cloth tells me she fights for some kind of city or homeland, so she fights with the lives of thousands in the back of her mind. Most of all, I see her face. Strikingly beautiful, but wearing a look of battle-hardened, steeled determination. She’s about to fight something, she’s about to kill something. This is a woman I would not want to fuck with.

And yet, what would feminists, and critics of fantasy games see?

Just a slutty-dressed woman in a sexual outfit with breasts too big.

Feminists, critics, they would reduce this woman to what she’s wearing. Hell, not even what she’s wearing, but strictly how ‘sexy’ what she’s wearing is. They’d reduce this woman to the size of her breasts and how much leg she’s showing. They would reduce this character’s value as a woman down to one single factor: how sexy she is.

Now tell me, who is really objectifying women - the people who like this kind of attire, or the people who don’t?

im printing this post out and framing it im making seventeen copies so i can send it out for christmas. no one gets coal this year they have to hang this up and read it everyday instead

I’m screaming

i’m crying…. We did it kids.. Gamer’s 1, femjnist 0

Video Games Are Real;

op stop “what makes you beautiful”ing that poor fictional woman she will never ever return your affections

imagine being this sort of strange creep

she has zero visible muscle definition and her face is the least detailed/most generic part of the drawing, he is literally making shit up that isn’t there

and none of this explains why it wouldn’t make more sense for a battle-hardened warrior to avoid leaving large portions of her body exposed and defenseless

i stopped when i realized this dude doesn’t know what a tiara is

(via spookyskookin)

hellotailor:

opallynn:

Can we just talk about this ridiculous painting for a moment?

Bouguereau is pretty ridiculous to start with, what with his gigantic, hyper-rendered paintings (if you’ve ever stood in the presence of one, you know what I mean, they’re like portals to a softly-lit alternate Victorian dimension) 

But this… this is just complete silliness.  Bouguereau spent the majority of his life painting milky-skinned young ladies and then I guess one day he got fed up with that hetero nonsense and said FUCK IT.  

BAM! HOMOEROTICA all over the place.  I mean, this is the gayest fucking painting I’ve ever seen.  Even that demon knows what’s up, he’s all “look how gay this shit is, Dante.  Just look.”

Even Virgil - who all through ‘The Inferno’ is the staunch support whom Dante leans upon - looks like he’s about to vomit his Victorian sensibilities everywhere.  Bougeureau, you fool, Virgil was an ancient Roman poet.  If he had the technology, he’d be videotaping this.  Clearly Bouguereau never read ‘The Aeneid’ which has some of the loveliest references to men in love you’re likely to find outside of a fanfiction forum. And all that aside, it’s like Virgil and Dante switched places.  All through ‘The Inferno’ Dante is a crying, girly mess and Virgil is always patting him on the shoulder and saying “Hell sucks, dude,” not the other way around.

Disregarding everything I just said, Virgil’s offended little face here is Andromalius up down and sideways.

Let’s all look at this because it’s important.

(Source: al-spudnik, via killerville)

(Source: missmagikarp, via cultural-memeist)