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As far as chainmail bikinis go - I've never liked strictly "chainmail bikini" illustrations, but I am fine with some revealing outfits. I think revealing outfits *can be* a sign of unequal treatment of women, but they aren't necessarily....
And this is an inherently false idea.
Who suffers from depicting women in chainmail bikinis exactly?
Absolutely nobody.
The "chainmail bikini" concept predates RPG's seeing as how Red Sonja was created in 1973.
And "chainmail bikini's" as a thing in RPG's have pretty much been just a sideshow in RPG art since the beginning.
The "pushback" against chainmail bikini type of art is just one of those things in retrospect that shows the wokescolds have always been around, and things have just gotten to a point where they think they can finally impose their views on everyone else...
Well that is the hypocrisy of the SJW Wokescolds it’s only bad if the art is female cheesecake art. Me. Who cares it’s only men.
Before the Paizo forums become woke their was a thread about Seoni their Iconic Sorcerer wore too revealing clothes and the Wokescolds predictability clutched their pearls. When it was pointed out that Sajan their Iconic Monk went about bare chested the equally predictable response was it’s not the same thing.
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The only standard SJW's have is that they have no standards. a.k.a. Rules for thee, and not for me.
It is all about power. Getting you to kow-tow to their dictates.
Brad Walker does a good summary:https://bradfordcwalker.blogspot.com/2022/01/narrative-warfare-how-bad-actors.html
"They want to humiliate their enemies--who are the audiences for the things they converged--and force them to accept their version as the real thing, including (routinely) planning to remove all memory of the previous versions.
... They don't do it out of weakness; as the ones in control, they're doing to flex--to show off--their position of power over the audience. "There are five lights, Jean-Luc" they say, and they aim to punish you if you do not agree."
"Chainmail bikini" art hurts no one.
Certainly not the 61% of D&D players that are males, according to WotC's own survey results.
"But, but, the same WotC survey shows that 39% of D&D players are women! What about them you sexist pig!?"To that, all I shall say is that this is the cover of a Red Sonja comic from 1975:
And this is the most recent cover of ELLE magazine
*; readily available in grocery stores everywhere in the US. In plain view, to be seen by all and sundry:
* FYI: Elle
is the world's largest women's fashion magazine. As in a magazine made by women for women, to appeal to as wide an audience of women as possible...