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[–]MaleFriedanFan 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Cosplay is high fashion designed by nerdy Japanese shut-ins, so it has a lot of weird stuff going on. "Crossplay" was originally supposed to be a positive thing, because cosplay was starting to take on the fashion ideal that you should only dress to your body type rather than your interests. So if you are a fat woman, you should only cosplay as fat women in anime rather than as characters from an anime that is your escapist pleasure. So you had people like "Sailor Bubba" ironically crossplaying as Sailor Moon despite not looking remotely like Sailor Moon because (I think) he liked Sailor Moon, which made it a little easier for people to not fret so much about their physical suitability for a character, as they could always point to Sailor Bubba as being a worse fit.

However, this has sort of opened up the perverse incentive of "crossplay to your body type rather than your interests". So if you are a woman with broad shoulders and no boobs, well...