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Is it just me that finds such incredible cheesecake offensively condescending and damaging to the hobby as a whole? Why should we, as a group, continue to perpetuate the idea that women exist first as sexual objects and only second as actual people?
Art such as this, or this.
This needs to go away. This is not doing anything positive to the hobby.
What these images say to me is that I'm so incapable of any sort of nuance that I have to have sexuality thrust into my face, like Frazetta was still relevant and acceptable, and that I'm so easily led by my genitals that a bunch of skin in an incredibly infeasible and misogynistic outfit is, by default, what appeals to me. And that I'm incapable of viewing a female adventurer as a person if they're wearing practical clothing. Even the most beefcake Iconic wears pants.
I resent that. I like the Golarion world, I like the strong females within, like Sarenrae and Iomedae. I hugely dislike being pandered to like I'm some socially stunted idiot who can only find women attractive if they dress like strippers.
Stuff like this needs to continue, while the other, offensive art dies a slow, painful death.
Ameiko: Awesome without a serpent trying to bite her nipple off or a hugely distorted face.
Seelah: My favorite Iconic, without question. If only she'd lose the boobplate.
Though I will say that boobplates need to f@~+ing die, too. There is more than enough room in a breastplate for breasts. Accentuating them is either for ceremonial armor or for perverts.