I don’t want to hear another fucking peep out of a G*mer nerd that women in games aren’t hot anymore or that Marvel is “woke”.

      • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
        3·
        4 days ago

        It’s really really boring.

        I get that they want them to be attractive but women don’t all need the same bodies to be sexy, there is not just one type of sexy. But someone in charge for multiple decades must have pushed for every woman to be one specific appearance because it was their preference or some shit.

        • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
          2·
          4 days ago

          It really is. I think it comes less from them wanting them to be attractive and more that artists tend to just develop a particular “style” with how they draw people, and a lot of the “superstar artists” of the 90s basically only had like 1-2 body types they could draw for men, and only 1 for women. And because the biggest names in the industry would always draw women like that, all the other artists would emulate them.

  • XiaCobolt [undecided, she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    27·
    6 days ago

    Superficially it’s not great. A few observations though:

    • This costume is no more revealing than things Emma Frost wears in the comics, it’s basically her thing. Not that this excuses things (comics are misogynistic AF), but it’s not like they took a more modest character and changed her (like Kitty Pryde in a skimpy outfit etc).

    • This is an unlockable outfit her default is way more concealing than anything she has ever worn in comics (and I remember that pissing Chuds off a while back). Still pretty objectifying

    • The Art Director for Marvel Rivals is Dino Ma (far left on picture I confirmed with other sources as the naming order is wrong in the tweet), now I don’t know for certain Dino designed Emma Frost, but it’s a small studio. I don’t know Dino’s gender or sexuality and shouldn’t speculate. But they have queer vibes from my impressions. I also from years of hanging out on NSFW tumblr and twitter have a good sense for when an artist is drawing objectification (cishet) versus objectification (queer) and this tickles my six sense slightly, entirely vibes based towards the latter.

    • There’s an online meme that Emma Frost is trans (positive) that some writers have leant into over the years. From memory there’s a story about how a young Brunette Emma Frost has a blonde brother named Christian who is sent to a conversion camp for being gay and is never seen again. Both sort of connecting the mutant as a metaphor for queerness, but also a theory is that Emma was that blonde boy and wasn’t gay but actually straight trans woman (the Brunette Emma being a sibling or an invented person). A trans woman dressing like this would be “Mother” as the kids say

    • Uh…she could make me worse.

  • Blep [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    17·
    6 days ago

    The enlightened gooners of my friend group think she was sexualized incorrectly. They couldve just given her a fur cape to keep with tank form, without changing her figure.