Agreed @oriskany – silly, and even a little disturbing. One can’t help but wonder what goes through the minds of artists that habitually produce images like that; is that really how they see women at some level?

There’s no accounting for taste, @onlyonepinman. Unfortunately, sexual objectification is not solely a matter of harmless taste existing in a a social vacuum. I wish it were.

You’re right, there is no accounting for taste. Yours or anyone else’s.

One Man’s “objectification” is another man’s admiration.

One man’s opposition to sexualisation is another man’s prudishness.

It’s all a matter of interpretation really.

Easily said when are not the one getting wolf-whistled everyday, denied promotion because of your genitalia, or otherwise have your life negatively impacted because there are always some people who have difficulty distinguishing between how fictional women are depicted and the acceptable parameters for the treatment of actual women.

It is very easy to let your privilege blind you to the experiences of people not like yourself. It took me years to learn to begin to overcome my own unexamined privilege and consider how imagery like this effects women, and the process is still very much a work in progress.

How do you know? I might be smoking hot

I might get wolf whistled all the time

I try not to get involved in discussions about equality or social justice and, where I see them I try to make light of it. The reason is simple; no-one wants true equality (and it’s also virtually impossible to achieve) because true equality means everybody is exactly the same – no differences of belief, experience; no colours or genders. What people actually want is “equal but different” which, apart from being an oxymoron, is also entirely subjective. My version of equality is not the same as the next person’s equality and so on. Life shits on us all in different… Read more »

Redben, I am not presuming to speak on behalf of the oppressed or disenfranchised when I make a simple observation about a broad and toxic social trend in our a society The link between sexualised imagery and other expressions of normalised societal sexism may not be a straight road from A to B, but sexism doesn’t just pop into existence ex nihilo – the attitudes that underpin it come from somewhere, and fictional depictions of women are one of those sources. Without tackling the sources of the root attitudes that underpin sexism, you will never be able to tackle the… Read more »

Male Gaze, Gaydar, Women’s Intuition, God…

Having a word for something doesn’t necessarily make it real, relevant, meaningful or any combination of those three.

Are you actually familiar with the term’s use within feminist thought, its origins and the intellectual underpinnings of the concept? It is not as though this was just some notion someone cooked up on a lazy afternoon somewhere – there is an entire well respected body of feminist thought behind this type of analysis. That is hardly comparable to religious mythology, vaguely homophobic beliefs about a person’s innate ability to determine if someone else is gay, or poorly defined notions of gender specific intuition.

Male Gaze, Gaydar, Women’s Intuition, God… one of these things really is not like the others…

Far too familiar for my liking, and they’re quite frankly boring (and all too often questionable) which is why I hate seeing them on Beasts of War. There’s a place for social justice arguments and that place is Tumblr. You’re not going to change the world by commenting on the Internet. You’re unlikely to even change someone’s mind let alone the whole world so posting about how certain aspects of wargaming are part of Patriarchy or whatever isn’t effecting social change but it is bloody annoying; it’s like a faulty house alarm when the owner is on holiday. So I’m… Read more »

Sexism is a pervasive canker, @onlyonepinman. It may not directly effect you or those you care about in your day to day lives, you may not much care about it, and you may find discussion of it annoying, but none of that makes it go away. That you don’t see it in war gaming does not mean that your judgement is the only judgement. You are entitled to your opinion, as I am to mine. Perhaps we will never agree, but neither one of us gets to shape the discourse on BoW or anywhere on the internet or in meat… Read more »

I not saying you’re wrong, just a bit boring.

Generally speaking, I don’t care one way or the other about pictures like this or miniatures of the same. One post by an SJW and I find myself warming to them somewhat.