Therefore she is not traditionally beautiful despite the fucking golden cracks on her implying she is a work of art who has been made more beautiful by her ordeal
The article makes the argument that she is not the male beauty standard for women, but the female one. I'm not sure that is true, she is like 3 % too wide-shouldered for the most conservative standard, and I wouldn't exactly call it broadening in a non-pun-based sense of the word.
The article makes the argument that she is not the male beauty standard for women, but the female one.
That's kinda wild tbh. Which female beauty standard is that supposed to refer to? What straight women buying into hegemonial femininity want to be like? What queer women find hot? These two standards tend to be not the same type of woman, and the latter in particular usually isn't one narrowly defined type of woman in the first place, because the entire point of a sapphic desire that defines itself in opposition to the hegemonnial way of sexualizing women is to view each other as subjects, not as objects, which only works when you understand our beauty as an expression of ourself, not as a fulfillment of an abstract and policed ideal beauty standard that by definition must always exclude most women because most women are not of the same race, body shape etc.
Which, btw, is a position that i've not only seen in all kinds of lesbian communities, but found a ton of straight dudes to very enthusiastically agree on, because viewing women as human and being able to find more than 1% of the female population hot are both kind of a prerequisite if you realistically want a fulfilling relationship with a woman, which surprisingly tends to be something most straight men actually want.
Or, tl;dr: Reactionary anti-feminists who enforce hegemonial gender roles fight to make everyone unhappy, including other cishet dudes.
I find it's 50/50 on the height thing, like there is the womanlet meme, but also if someone as a heterosexual man is with a woman taller than him, he'll probably get bullied or whatever?
ive towered over half the men ive been with, no one has ever said anything. unless you have dogshit friends no one you know is gonna say anything also if a man keepsd friends like that you shouldn't date him. also tall women are still the beauty standard regardless if individual short mens preferences.
Is it because of the scars? It's already been pointed out here that she's pretty conventional as far as beauty standards go, a tall blonde white woman with straight hair.
What about Lae'zel? She's the "odd-looking" waifu that everybody was talking about, she would be much more convincing as an example. Even so, her face and skin tone are the only unusual things about her, she's still an athletic woman in good shape, as defined by common beauty standards... I don't know, I can see where they're coming from with this, but the argument simply doesn't hold up when you use BG3 characters, who are almost all conventionally beautiful, as examples.
Is it because of the scars? It's already been pointed out here that she's pretty conventional as far as beauty standards go, a tall blonde white woman with straight hair.
It's because in-game she's boisterous and strong and doesn't act like a passive piece of furniture, which is what these freaks want
She’s not just tall, she’s a hulking giant. She’s like 12 feet tall and muscular. Definitely not the “conventional beauty” but definitely has an audience still
You heard it folks, nothing more creative than the same shit car commercials have been doing to trick horny dudes into buying shit they don't need for decades.
God forbid artists are allowed to paint outside the corporate numbers for once. I'm sorry, cis dudes, but your taste is fucking boring.
As someone else pointed out, even Dame Aylin is a sterotypically conventually attractive woman that ticks all the modern beauty standards. Good god, stop being so safe with your woman characters.
BG3 has been a colossal success. It came out three months ago and it’s still topping sales charts, which means that either no one else cares about the things this sad loser cares about, or the sad loser demographic isn’t worth catering to.
Look up the "historical accuracy" mods for BG3 that remove "historically inaccurate" blackness from one of the playable characters. In a fucking fantasy setting with dimension hopping squid people.
Wtf is this sentiment that keeps getting regurgitated about fantasy settings. It's not historical to begin with. Why would it need to be historically accurate. Let alone the fact that these people don't want accuracy they want .
That headline confuses me. Dame Aylin is not only conventionally attractive but is also a strong boisterous meathead who kicks total ass. What's not to love?
Why do they always speak like this? Do they think if they use enough words and commas they can obfuscate the basic fact that they down bad for some digital booba?
I wish that were the case because they'd have more of an opportunity to develop further as a person, but I've seen too many 50something gamedads that also talk like that.
We're getting to a point with G*mer males that being attracted to women in a game is gay, actually, unless she's a demure waifu with giga boobs that has no speaking roles.
I think everyone here's missing the point. He's not complaining that the character isn't conventionally beautiful, he's complaining that she's too conventional.
Okay, then exactly what kind of 'less conventional' woman do you figure this screeching "normal male" would want? Disregarding that our boy here is bitching about her being remotely realistic, lol
How should I know? I'm just pointing out that everyone here saw a guy complaining about women in video games and assumed he wanted conventional beauty without actually reading it.