Nashiktal wrote...
Colintastic wrote...
Nashiktal wrote...
Sigyn2011 wrote...
I'm not crazy about reporters in general, so my first inclination would be to kick her off of the ship. BW does a fantastic job with characters, so I'm willing to give her a shot. One shot.
And in regards to how professional women in the military dress while off duty, does anyone happen to remember a tv show called "Battlestar Galatica"? Very few of the females on that show wore anything that didn't make the males turn their heads. I'm not at all embracing her apparel (she immediately turns me off), but I just want to remind folks that this isn't unprecedented. Makes me kind of wonder what Ms. Allers wore to her job interview, though.
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Actually on battlestar galactica it fit the setting. Starbuck rarely wore anything outside of her dress uniform, or when off duty in her skivvies a tanktop. When she was in a fancy party while off duty, she would wear a stunning dress that would INDEED make heads turn, but when on duty at said party she would be wearing a suit practically. She was sexy, without being objectified or insulting those she represented, or the audience she was meant to appeal to.
That is the same with all other mlitary female in that show, and everyone else was a civilian who still wore the appropriate clothing for the situation, and everyone followed these basic internal logic guidelines. The exception being a certain well known cylon who was seducing a certain important character on the ship, who didn't follow the same rules as the other characters.
Its called internal consistency. You don't see any other alliance personel dressing skimpy, you don't see any other reporter dressing skimpy, (and I wonder why you would dress skimpy on a frontline combat vessel in the midst of a genocidal war, it seems a bit disrespectful to those fighting, and a distraction to those on the ship.)
I don't mean to be too insulting here, but have you guys ever gone outside? You don't need to compare her to other fictional characters on Aliens or Battlestar... tramps are all over the place. In real life! You know who else is all over the place? Tramps who think they are classy women, and try to act as if they are. I'm in Law School and I regularly see some of my classmates get tarted up to go to the library. THE LIRBARY! Do you think that's appropriate? Probably not. Does anyone stop them? No. Do they try to maintain some pretense that they are the pinaccle of lady-hood? Absolutely. I gaurentee this happens at every Law School across the nation ranked lower than #60, and probably some ranked higher as well.
I don't care if you don't find it attractive, the point is women wear slu*ty clothes. It happens. A lot. Most of the tramps in my lawbrary aren't attractive either. That doens't stop them. Is there some rule that states you have to like every character? No, there isn't. Personally, I hate Jack with a fiery passion. The only reason I didn't kill her intentionally every ME2 playthrough I had was simply because I wanted the "best ending" more than I hated her.
Get off Allers' back. Let her be the loose lady she is. I'm not saying it's true or even close to factual, but I wouldn't be surprised if her VA, Chobot, gets railed by 3 different dudes a week. It wouldn't bother me in the slightest. Her personal life doesn't even remotely affect her ability as a newscaster.
Also see another real newscaster who dresses w/ lots of skin:
You know what her dressing like that does? Get more people to watch her report the news.
Hey yeah great, quick question. Are any of those lovely women on board a naval vessel? Another quick question, how many of those women are on a naval vessel... IN A WAR ZONE.
Why is that relevant? If it's the armor argument you're going for no, navy seamen wears bullet proof vests on ship. I'd think women reporters who go on navy ships today would dress conservatively for 2 reasons. 1: current Navy vessels have a HUGE crew of men who haven't seen women for awhile and are all crammed ina small space so the reporter gets a lot of unwanted atention 2: for the very same circumstances if the reporter does want attention, the seamen don't really have a lot of other options so she can take what she pleases no matter how she dresses.
These are not the same circumstances on the Normandy. It's actualy a rather large ship for the crew that mans it. Further it "lands" often so the men have a chance to get out. Additionally, there are a lot of women on the crew as is.
The next question you may of course ask is, "well why are there so many large breasted women manning positions where ability is valued over breast size." The coincidence seems too much to believe? Well, I seem to recall from the books that most children recieve some sort of genetic modification. In the wonderful we live in, guess what people will be looking to modify first? Boobs. Science fiction or not, I'm willing to bet in 150 years, assuming there's no massive societal collapse, there will be very few small boobs in the industrialized world. Admittedly I may be one generation off. Maybe it will just be the women born 150 years from now, rather than the adults 150 years from now, but point still stands.
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