What Not to Wear... into Combat

[robkelk]

This came up on the Daz forums, in a thread about the dearth of realistic (or pseudo-realistic) armor models for female characters:

http://madartlab.com/2011/12/14/fantasy ... lady-bits/]Fantasy Armor and Lady Bits

A brief discussion of armor, "armor," and how to make somebody in armor as sexy as somebody in "armor".
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[Jinx999]

That came up on the RPG.net forum. My response was basically a big yawn. Pointing out that fantasy female armour designs are often impractical is hardly a stunning insight or big secret. Also, pointing out something that everyone already knows isn't going to change anything.

[Sweno]

I liked it for the impractical male armor. I like seeing gender equality in the world (and maybe, just maybe people seeing that would *think* about what most females are put in).
-Terry
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"so listen up boy, or pornography starring your mother will be the second worst thing to happen to you today"
TF2: Spy

[dark seraph]

I liked it for the impractical male armor. 

I Need the brain bleach after that image.

[robkelk]

That came up on the RPG.net forum. My response was basically a big yawn. Pointing out that fantasy female armour designs are often impractical is hardly a stunning insight or big secret. Also, pointing out something that everyone already knows isn't going to change anything.

That's only the first two-thirds of the article, though.
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[Rev Dark]

While the ladies are usually greased and shoehorned into Mr. Badtouch the Smiths latest abomination - they are thankfully not the only ones being screwed over.
The film 300 took the Spartans - heavily armoured warriors and turned them out in helmets, shields, posing pouches and not much else.

[Sweno]

posing pouches, I'll have to remember that term.
-Terry
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"so listen up boy, or pornography starring your mother will be the second worst thing to happen to you today"
TF2: Spy