That’s pretty different from what I’m talking about. Yes, ugly caricatures existed but it was played for comedy and the artist didn’t make it a grand parable on how art was supposed to be, just people having fun. Compare this to people who are literally getting triggered over someone having a more attractive icon and “fixing” fairly attractive character designs by making them unrecognizable grotesque.
I was going to respond but @Syaoran Li got it. For every Klasky Csupo show or Ed Edd n Eddy, you had the DCAU shows or Gargoyles. There isn’t as much variety in the 2010s and you start to get tired of the potato faces and blobby body types.
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Every time they get upset when someone says "not all men do [thing]" it's not even about a thing the majority of men do. It's about something a very, very small minority would think.
It's a bit like Medieval artwork, where everyone except saints or kings looks like a gimp, and even the kings are reduced to average joes with a bit of finery. There was a strong wave of iconoclasm at the start of the Christian era, and it was about more than simply wrecking pagan stuff. It took until the renaissance for it to be acceptable for artists to draw beautiful people again IIRC .
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Fuck you all, this shit was legitimately painfully stupid.
To borrow from another thread, this is what a lot of female characters in video games look like now.
This is exactly what I was afraid was going to happen in the early days of Anita Sarkeesian and Tropes Vs Women, one of the first games that really got pushback over it's female characters was Dragon's Crown which really did have some pretty over the top designs, you could perhaps see circa 2013 people's dislike of it as being reasonable, but that's now evolved into the ResetERA mentality of people getting pissed off over the smallest amount of sexual content in games.
I knew it was going to be give an inch and they'll take a mile and it wouldn't stop at only the most over the top female characters and flagrant sexuality and I was exactly right.
Now the irony is is right smack dab in the middle of this era of ugly female character designs was the debut of one of the sexiest game girls ever, 2B from Nier Automata, who has a huge female fan following because thankfully not all female gamers are so insecure as to feel threatened by a sexy character design and proving that ResetERA doesn't have to be your audience and doesn't represent all gamers.
I think the reason left leaning people, even somewhat moderate ones, can't see the unfairness of the situation is because fundamentally they think that if a woman says something, a man's place is to simply agree with her no questions asked, no matter what, a woman simply can't be in the wrong and a man in the right, it just does not compute in their worldview, it's the same deal with white versus non-white.
I've argued with somewhat moderate liberals online about the state of gaming and comics and other nerdy interests and no matter what I said it literally all boiled down to the fact that the changes have been spearheaded by "women and minorities" therefore it's ok, nobody can complain about it, the final quality of a product doesn't matter depending on who made it, that's literally all there is to it, they refused to believe that people were upset about the work these creators were putting out and not just upset over their identity.
It boils down to white man = bad, woman and minority = good.
A black woman could hold up 4 fingers and ask a white guy to tell her it's 5 fingers and if he doesn't agree he's in the wrong, that's all there is to it.
And once people figured out that mentality existed of "I can do no wrong if I'm the right color or gender" they damn sure chose to exploit it, exploit it, exploit it at every opportunity.
I'm sure it's also in the Gail Simon thread, but bitch has apparently completely flipped her fucking wig, and had a public twitter meltdown -
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“ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR GIRLFRIEND MUST KEEP TRIM MUST LOVE ANIME WILL NOT WORK OUTSIDE THE HOME DOESN’T LEAVE THE HOUSE WITHOUT PERMISSION DOESN’T HAVE SKANKY FRIENDS MUST DRESS SEXY AT ALL TIMES NO UNNATURAL HAIR COLORS”GAIL SIMONE on Twitter: "ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR GIRLFRIEND MUST K…
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Well, there are a few. Erica Henderson who draws Squirrel Girl comes to mind.
Gail Simone doesn't have her own thread. The closest you'd get would be the Comicsgate thread, and it's been posted there, but that thread's mostly about Richard Meyer, EVS and a bunch of Comicsgate speds now.
You're answering your own question there. Magic.
I think you are right, when I was of the left years ago the talk was of empowering people, stopping suffering and fair wages for all. Now its we hate the rich we hate the white men (don't you know that homeless bum is super privileged) and so on. It is not (Labour) a moderate left movement to raise people up through education etc but a group of tossers who are driven by envy and hate of out groups, hell they are now throwing women under the bus for the altar of troon rights. Long ago I said fuck them, now well the vote goes for the Tories they don't pander to those who just want to take and put nothing back. The left has become the shouting ground of bitter losers who failed at life and are resentful of those who put the effort in and make something of their one chance at life.
