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[–]Cass 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I remember the first time I saw Bayonetta and thought she was awesome.

I personally never minded the skimpy outfits for women. Maybe it's objectification, but I like to look at beautiful people, and the more naked the better. Instead of putting more clothes on female characters I want less clothes on male ones.

idk if it's empowering and I don't care. Here's a comment I recently wrote about why I dress the way I do https://saidit.net/s/LGBDropTheT/comments/89kv/an_observation/uon2

Dude's argument was retarded.

One thing I want to add, not necessarily related. I've been learning how to draw and sketching a lot of nudes. I started to find the naked body more and more pleasing to look at. I guess my perception changed from something slightly taboo to feeling like no one is truly ugly, as long as they're naked. I've became more comfortable with my own body too.

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

Ah okay, well I know there are some women who do like sexy designs and for me, it's not so much that I don't like sexy designs because I definitely can (well as much as a gay man could lol) but I just prefer designs that actually have thought put into them you know? Like most of the outfits that the female characters wore in MK9 were just tacky and lacked creativity and style. Like at the most, the only ones that I thought looked kinda cool was Jade's because it actually had a little more stylish-ness to it what with with the incorporation of the gold detailing and parts that added beautiful cohesion to the green, the stylish boots, and the chain adornments and Sonya's because even though I feel like a black bra worn under the vest would've really completed the look, it at least had some sense of style as well. But everyone else's just looked tacky and not creative and were just sexy just to be sexy with no character or style.

Like let's take one video game's most prominently infamous sexualized female character Ivy Valentine from Soul Calibur. I personally didn't think her old outfits were that bad because they had this kinda cool factor to them and they weren't going overboard with trying to expose her breasts. But then we get her Soul Calibur 4 outfit and it's just... It's not even an outfit, it's floss (sorry I just really hate this outfit haha). Comparing that to her Soul Calibur 5 look and even her Soul Calibur 3 look (minus the white color, purple looks better on her imo), I personally feel like the 5 and 3 looks are much more creative and visually interesting compared to whatever the heck they were doing with her 4 look.

But I guess that's just me. I prefer sexy style with substance is all. And this goes for the men as well but most of the time the unintentional sexualized male characters also have style about them anyway because the men designing them are not trying to make them look sexy as they're mostly trying to make them look badass and/or powerful.

I hope all I said makes sense haha. And I'm a fellow artist as well, been drawing since I was a child and it's why I take character design so seriously because I want to be a character designer someday.