I’ve met plenty of women that think the female characters in SFV are hot, so the anonymity of the internet will always make it hard to make a judgement call about whether it’s men vs. women doing the harassment.

people who assume “blackfaceing” are the actual racists.

Yeah, pushback against practices with historical and sustained racist connotations is just “fragile feelings”

Because of history, those things are not equivalent. Blackface was once used in a way that dehumanized the people it was portraying: it is a part of a racist legacy. Even if the person doing it now has zero intention of doing anything racist, the act itself has a long history of racism attached to it, and it’s not…

I was watching DBS with my 5 yo daughter and she turned to me and said “you’re a good dad like Vegeta, he cares for his kids and his wife, Goku only likes to play fighting with other people”.

Men who have seen *real* women know they only wear conservatively long dresses and show no skin whatsoever unless they're feeling a bit kinky in which case an ankle bone may be flashed.

Yeah, most people just mark Voldo off as an odd character despite him showing off more and more buttcheek each game. He’s the M to Ivy’s S.

I’ve never understood this mentality: because a female game/comic/fiction character is designed as being overly sexualized in nature, with an emphasis on tits and ass and scantily clad bits, that the character designer(s) had to be “absolute pervs who may not have *ever* seen an actual woman outside of internet porn…

If you are attracted to men, yes, yes he is. He is many other things too, but he is also a hot, scantily clad sex-object.

I think your thoughts here, in part, are what lead me to think that her overt sexualization isn’t really worth writing negative think pieces about. She’s kind of a bad ass, isn’t she? Like...is Conan not a sex object decked out in a loin cloth with bulging muscles? Is Ivy not punishing those who leer at her by deftly…

To me, it always felt as if the Soul Caliber characters were caricatures of tropes than anything meaningful at all.

Holding out for the logical follow-up article: The Inexplicable Sexiness of Voldo.

Ivy exists for the same reason firemen calendars exist. She’s softcore porn. You don’t need to worry about her or reclaim her anymore than I need to worry about or reclaim the image of sexy, oiled up firemen or the tall, perfectly sculpted, long-locked male protagonists of all those shitty woman-targeting romance…

Inexplicable?

Meanwhile at SNK:

I am not a man. And I actually do agree to some extent.
But I am also sick and fucking tired of the constant complaining that often ends up being straight up slutshaming and bodyshaming. Especially when it comes to people shitting on characters like Ivy when she’s like the worst one to complain about because of how…

SC always had boobs and ass.

Unless it’s male characters?
Then you can apparently show however much skin that you want and it’s totally fine...

There has to be something comprehensible to read or am I supposed to mind read the real intentions here?

Oh come on, you can’t just not count Voldo. He can’t even speak! Astaroth is also pretty nakey