I'm fairly disappointed at this feminist blogger. I thought her blog would be valid and eminent, but it was not.
Okay, I get that she complains over something she doesn’t like what she sees, and this being oversexual females showing their cleavage. This annoys her very much, so she makes an article highlighting every single example of sexism showing in ME2 with screenshots and point out all the ways it disgusts her. What the hell? So how would you want the women to stand in front of the camera?
It seems to me like there is no way for them to present their female characters without somehow, in your eyes, emphasizing their boobs. If they’re standing sideways? Boob shot. Looking up at them? Boob shot. Looking down? Boob shot. Are they in the middle of the screen? So are their boobs. Boob shot. Are they standing up straight? They’re pushing out their boobs. Boob shot. Leaning over? Boob shot as well. I understand complaints about what you call “boob perspective” and about shots that look down a character’s top, but looking at the variety of angles and poses you are condemning here, it would appear that the only safe shot would be as follows:
1. Standing straight, but not TOO straight.
2. Character looking straight at the screen, so as to avoid emphasizing the boobs via a side angle.
3. The camera angle running parallel to the ground, at a level somewhere
between the breasts and the top of the head, to avoid looking up at the
bottom or down at the tops of the breasts.
4. The character must be off-center, so that her breasts aren’t in the middle of the shot with her.
What I'm trying to say is, I just feel like there is no way they could have made their cut scenes fit the criteria you are giving without drastically reducing their available options.
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Now, what's on here take on Jack, Samara, Miri and Tali? I don't get it. Again the boob shot here and there. They do have character, you know. That's why they have their 'unique sexual style'.
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Jack hit me in a different way than maybe her characterization was supposed to… Everything about how she is dressed and acts says “Pay attention to and FEAR me! Rawr!” So she came across to me as very troubled. I did not find her sexual at all, but rather felt protective and maternal towards her, wanting her to see life in a different way. I mean, she wields sexuality as a weapon – but she is not attractive. As I see it, she has gone out of her way to not be attractive – her hair is gone, her tattoos are not designed to please the viewer, her breasts are almost totally exposed but small and actually visually deemphasized by the tattoos and the straps. Her breasts do not visually stand out nearly as much as Samara’s (there is little to no color contrast).
- Okay, I agree that
Miranda can be a little 'problematic'. I saw it as part of the “striving to be too perfect to too many people too much of the time” thing she suffers from in her life. I was left wanting her to know she did not have to do
that, her competency was enough. She talked about being designed for hotness enough that I felt like it was impressed to her by her father often enough for that hotness itself had become baggage, a detriment to
her deciding her own fate. So put down short, Miri was a stereotypically hot Cheerleader, feel sorry for her cuz she has to be perfect and hot all the time. But her character was (thank God see at least said it herself) very good written, and that we can see from her loyalty mission.
- You could discribe
Tali as a geek girl hidden behind big glasses/glass plate, even more insecure than the boy geek, which she basically is. Particularly gets on my nerves because her characterization is so heavy handed with it.
- When it comes down to
Samara, well okay, I cant really say much there.
Modifié par Chewin3, 12 juin 2011 - 09:31 .
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His so manly and im not
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), hispanics, etc. Also, in the world of ME, most humans are mixed race in their era if I'm not mistaken, and there seems to be plenty of diversity.
are you serious with this?
