• FourteenEyes [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      43·
      1 year ago

      She has muscles and is scary scared

      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

        • FourteenEyes [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
          42·
          1 year ago

          She explicitly refers to herself as beautiful and says that her foes will be broken upon her beauty, she shines with divine light and has angel wings and everyone thinks she’s super hot and her cute gf is embarrassed when she loudly declares that they’re going to have sexual relations because they are lovers

          It’s such a brave take saying that this goddess who everyone in the game drools over can be seen as beautiful now and meanwhile hot orc lady from Moonrise Towers just gets to be a combat speed bump

    • Stoatmilk [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      24·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • AcidSmiley [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
        24·
        1 year ago

        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.

    • ashinadash [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      12·
      1 year ago

      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?

  • joaomarrom [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    41·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • TheCaconym [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      35·
      1 year ago

      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

      Also probably the fact she’s gay

    • zed_proclaimer [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      8·
      1 year ago

      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

  • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    39·
    1 year ago

    uncreative

    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.

  • EnsignRedshirt [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    35·
    1 year ago

    Beauty standards aside, this is the dumbest part:

    Not if you want normal males to buy your stuff

    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.

  • RedQuestionAsker2 [he/him, she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    32·
    1 year ago

    Are there any websites where I, a normal male, can talk to other normal males exclusively?

    I’d really like to bounce my faux intellectual and prescriptive ideas about art without being oppressed by non-normal gender identities.

  • Hexarei@programming.devEnglish
    23·
    1 year ago

    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?