Strategic butt-coverings in video-games

@OtherMichael is winding you up! He doesn’t live in Western society, he’s stuck in the Americas with us.

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#notalldoctorows

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I’m not very good at reading Chinese, but I think it says For cleaning teeth and massaging gums

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Butt coverings not butt other ummm things.

Just makes me think of this.

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“To be clear, the solution here is not to simply show more butts of male characters.”

Aww, shucks.

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Exactly, that was my point. Why “sex sells” has never made much sense.

Don’t I know it:

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Do you see He-Man’s butt?
Today I’ve commented on masturbating in phone booths in NYC and seeing He-Man’s butt. What is happening to me?

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perhaps this is a learning opportunity, rather than a lecture opportunity.

just a thought.

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I think you’re being a bit literal, matey.

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If you find out, let me know because I am moving there.

I love my cloak.

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While she may have a point, I think it is unfair that she cherrypicks games from so long ago (esp the old tomb raider games). Isn’t the industry allowed to turn a new leaf?

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Its as if she has some sort of agenda.
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WTF?

Was her Tactical Swimsuit in the wash? I really doubt that harness, grinding against skin, is a good thing,

Do you think men feel normative social pressure to look like He-man, or do you think there is no normative social pressure on women to look like Barbie?

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One side has breast implants. The other side has steroids.

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Lissen pardner, summa us wears dusters or ponchos, too…

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The traditional argument is that beefed up roided out He-Man dudes are a power fantasy (and a type of messaging intended for other dudes, mostly), not really a sexualization. So kind of a different thing.

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Isn’t power (and its other forms like money) considered attractive? Isn’t it about status-seeking in order to, inter alia but primarily, attract the best mates? With only the outwards forms/actions differing?

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