Nefla wrote...
Just look at the title of the freaking thread. The op and others list a select few armors and characters (only Isabella, Morrigan, and Bethany, and with all three it fits their personality and two are mages so armor/coverage doesn't even matter) but whenever someone brings up women who are not sexualized like Wynne, Merril, Aveline, Ser Cauthrien, Marethari, Shale, Rikka (and she's a freaking prostitute) Orana, Anora, Branka, Hespith, Shianni, Lily, Meredith, any female guard or templar, Oriana, Isolde, Marty, any chantry priest, Leliana, the player if they chose to be, etc...the reply is "oh there are a few minor examples of non sexualized women/armor."
People are acting like it's battle bikini rodeo and that bioware is so sexist for making a woman's revealing robe slightly more revealing than a man's revealing robe. Should there be more skimpy clothing/armor choices for men? Heck yes! But acting like there are no modest armor/clothing choices for women is untrue and doing a huge disservice to one of the only game companies that actually cares about women, LGBT, etc...
The arguments have been made that "it's so unrealistic for any armor to have molded boob plates because she would break her sternum so they should change them" in a game that is extremely unrealistic in almost every area. The word "oppression" has even been used. I'm sorry but saying that because a certain character has cleavage or that there is 1 (optional) armor that shows midriff on a woman it's oppression is ridiculous.
The personalities are part of the problem! The title of the thread says "reduced" not removed. The issue is, as I've said numerous times, equality. Women are more sexualised than men in general in the games. Less than in other games made by other companies, yes. But there is still a disparity.
Wynne is elderly, Merril is still wearing relatively revealing clothes (compare her to the male mage, Anders), Hespith is a relatively minor character whose major trait is her relationship with another character, Oriana gets killed right at the beginning of the game and is your brother's wife, Rica is a prostitute as you pointed out and your sister, Lily's primary involvement is her relationship to someone else, Shianni is raped. Sexualisation isn't just about a character being promiscuous or dressing "provocatively", it's about a lot of their involvement being about sex. In a vacuum, these examples wouldn't matter so much, but when you put them together, you see start to see a pattern, and THAT'S where the problem is.
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