• @[email protected]
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    218 months ago

    It’s interesting how people scrutinise every inch of female armor but if a male barbarian is wearing a loincloth in snow nobody cares, if a Knight wears plate armor with abs nobody cares, gladiator wears nothing except for waist armor and shoulder pads nobody cares.

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      328 months ago

      I don’t think people are usually complaining about female barbarians being half naked. But when you have a guy in plate so heavy that you can’t see him under it standing next to a girl in a metal bikini and they’re supposed to be the same class, that’s pretty weird.

      • littleblue✨
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        58 months ago

        Almost like old-school Fantasy was grognarded by grogs with nards. (Sorry, Grog, you’re orders of magnitude better than your forebears — and, yes, of course Critter’s “better than four bears!”)

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      38 months ago

      Generally that’s still aimed at the male gaze, not the female gaze, hence it’s not actually having the shoe on the other foot.