Sexy and Sexism are not the same thing?

[-CraZed-]

Aielyn said:

-CraZed- said:
If the character designs were reversed and he found them more appealing would he be sexist then? You just as many other with your train of thought will find offense no matter the situation.

A persons preference of anothers appearance is not in of itself sexist. If the poster made the claim that female characters must always fit this description and NO other view should be accepted then you might have a case but he does not. In fact he never even stated his preference between the two but offered a contrast and comparison.

And as for your question about women in the military, yes yes you would. Can't tell you how many REAL enlisted and comissioned female soldiers, marines, sailors, airmen etc. I have seen posing in videos and photos with nothing but their load bearing equipment and/or weapon on and while deployed inside an active combat zone on their own volition no less!

He didn't describe them as "attractive", he described them as "ideal". That's the difference. Had he said that Kratos and the girl are both "attractive", I would have gone "I suppose you might think so" (I don't find either one particularly sexy in design, personally). What he said was that Kratos's design is that of the ideal male, and the girl's design is that of the ideal female. Kratos is designed as the god of war - pure power. The girl is designed to be sexy. Sexism isn't about being attracted to females or to males, it's about how you think of males and how you think of females.

I find it funny that you speak of women who are POSING in videos and photos. Stop and think about it. They're not running around the battlefield in that sort of clothing (whether they're "inside an active combat zone" is irrelevant - I'm talking about when they're on duty). They're wearing it because they want to be sexy. You see the same from some of the men (although they do it differently). I never said that they would never wear it at all. What is different, here, is that the woman is designed to look like that DURING REGULAR ACTIVITY.

The rhetoric is really irrelevent thne point is it is comeones view or perspective on what is attractive or ideal. On top of it all we are talking about FICTIONAL characters borne from the mind of a game developer. Why are we even deriving controversy from this?

I and I am sure most others who do find the design of the characters pleasing or attractive or even ideal repsect your opinion that neither are attractive. In fact I'd veture to say most people don't even care. But when people start saying it has no right to exsist because you or someone else finds it offensive then we have a problem.

I wonder why we haven't seen this level of outcry over Fat Princesss by obese people?

LOL. No women don't run around the battlefield in bikinis but they also don't usually have advanced marksmanship training either so you won't find them with anything near the weapon the character has either. But to even stop to pose for sexy pictures or videos while in a combat zone is pretty bold and shows that there might even be a certain level of internal compulsion a desitre to be seen as attractive or sexy. It also shows you can definitely see a woman scantily dressed while in combat.

My main point is there is no reason to assign blame or take offense from these images because it is just someones opinion or idea of a fictional character in a video game and it's something that can be found in many an artist's sketch book or all over the internet (so why aren't we burning down the internet?) and it is largely irrelevent to everyday life.

The outrage over this these types of portrayals IMHO is just silly and as long as there are no laws against portraying 'less than ideal' characters this should be a non-issue.