On Fanservice Versus Theme

[farseer_lolotea]

Beware:  After this first paragraph lies a bunch of body-shaming comments that I don't actually condone at all.  In fact, I'm posting them here because I find them (or would, hypothetically, find them) fucking infuriating"I'm not into short women.  Make female gnomes taller

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[weiila]

Not only do they demand pandering to their fetishes, they also miss the whole point of the races. Put a troll woman beside a troll man that's stretching his back out and then come talk to me about small women (IT MAKES ME CRINGE CRINGE I TELL YOU) for example.

Here, this might cheer you up:

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/the-big-picture/4557-Junk-Drawer-Reloaded

Now it might be important to know that when he starts using Twilight as an example of nerdrage double-standards, the fact is that he DESPISES Twilight and has been very vocal about it many times. Still he can use it as a "shut the fuck up!" argument, and that is admirable. (A little clumsily since a lot of women despise Twilight just as much, but he's talking about silly poses and fetishising here.)

And a follow-up:http://www.escapistmagazine

[farseer_lolotea]

I've seen the second video; thought it was quite insightful.  Although I think his "dog park; all it needs is a Frisbee" comment about the wolves was a bit unjust (wolves are actually rather cute animals; see also: the complaints that ruined female worgen), I'd have to say the same of his scathing review of one of the Twilight films.

And the wank over female pandaren models...really has to be seen to be believed.  One artist went to the trouble of determining the proportions of the male model and pointing out why a female counterpart built along lady-orc-or-slimmer lines (yes, this has been demanded) would look disproportionate.  But people don't listen.

[weiila]

The artist clearly made the mistake of attempting to use antomically correct arguments. -_-

[farseer_lolotea]

It wasn't even a matter of being anatomically correct per se.  She based it on the proportions of all of the established races, certain ratios that are constant even in wildly dimorphic races such as draenei, and how the male pandaren model compares to the rest in terms of proportions.