why scantily-clad warrior females are not a question of biology, you silly bints

[keep_counting]

As a former (and still occasional) gamer, and avid fantasy-fan, this article was pure gold for me to find:

for anyone still wondering, yes, women can wear full armor too

I found it through another brilliant article, concerning the 2011 Marvel movie Thor, which is also a great read for anyone even remotely interested in feminism and the potrayal of women in todays media:

is Thor a feminist movie? (Yes)

Comments

[kilodalton]

Excellent articles! I particularly liked the Thor one - I saw (and liked!) the movie and didn't even notice that! (Which, I suppose is to its credit - absence of an expected reaction, and all that!)

[keep-counting.livejournal.com]

I didn't notice it either, apart from thinking that Jane's t-shirt during the fighting-scene was cute: as the article points out, maybe these people shouldn't even be given points for it, because it's just how it should be. Most of the time its not even consciously sexist, it's just become so normal, especially in movies, that they just do it anyway. And that's actually even more upsetting IMO

[kilodalton]

Yeah it's such an engrained double-standard that I think we go along with it now without ever even thinking about it - which is pretty scary =(