I saw a woman ride a horse down my road in a bikini last summer. Apparently it happens people. Casually, and off-camera.

Speaking as a bi-man with a history of body image problems - i can assure that I find Henry Cavill (modern superman) both gloriously attractive and woefully depressing! It’s such a ridiculously sexy outfit he wears - like the comics it’s essentially just different coloured skin. (drapery is always a bugger to draw:)…

Well early hoplites fount nude, Naked for you, they used shield and spear only using bronze armor in later periods.

Patty Jenkins made some interesting points about that - they made the costumes for their own wish fulfillment. They wanted their women to be badass AND hot as hell in the same way Batman and Superman are both supercut and musclebound for male fans who want to see their representative male heroes as paragons of…

Riding a horse with bare thighs is actually historically accurate if they’re going for the ancient/archaic Greek thing (pic of Macedonian Companion cavalry).

Breeches for cavalry didn’t really come into fashion until the Romans assimilated Gaul into the Empire, and a big part of that was Gaul and the German frontier…