She has a bare tummy... I think??
No, she's totally covered. A a couple others have pointed out, that's a tabard you're looking at. She's wearing clothes
over the top of her armor.
Four out of five are showing cleavage
No, they're not. Do you know what cleavage is?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleavage_(breasts)"Cleavage, anatomically known as the intermammary cleft or the intermammary sulcus (sulcus intermammarius), is the space between a woman's breasts, lying over the sternum."Go ahead and click the wiki link for an example image. Cleavage is not what you apparently think it is. Four out of five of those dressed
specifically coverthe space between breasts. What you are seeing is the top of the chest. The breasts, like the space between them, are completely covered. Compare:
There's a real life human girl wearing an ordinary shirt with a similar neckline. Is that sexualized, erotic revealing clothing? No. It is not. Also note that in terms of total coverage, the blood elf in her ankle length dress and fully covered arms and gloves is actually showing
less skin than the real life human girl wearing a totally plain, ordinary non-sexual shirt.
ignoring the fact that you were picking modest examples
Actually...no. It's funny you should make that claim, because I went out of my way to pick blood elves because they're by far the
most sexualized of out of all the races. Here's a picture of a
human wearing newbie clothes. Here's
another one. Here's a
female gnome. Here's a
female night elf.
What are you wearing? I'm in shorts and a sweater right now. Most of them are wearing more clothes than I am.
no... it's a comparison to show how male clothing in WoW sometimes has
decency when compared to exactly the same female clothing.
1) As was
already established, your image was not what you thought it was.
2)
Female human in default newbie clothes compared to a
male human in default newbie clothes. The male is showing more skin. Is he therefore indecent?
3) "Decency?" Again, these character models are showing
less skin than real life humans in real life do. Why is that not good enough?
there exists at least one modest choice.
What? No. Just...
no.
I don't understand. I truly, genuinely don't understand how this misscommunication can occur. I have shown you images. You've looked at them. But it seems like you're so deadset on the idea that they're all immodest and sexy that you're seeing stuff that isn't there.
Your claim about that armor up top on the right showing midriff? No. She's wearing a full suit armor and clothes over the top of that armor. Even if she took clothes off she would still be fully covered. Like, literally...in game you could remove her tabard from the paper doll, and her body would still be fully covered after removing that outer layer. And yet you're claiming that she's showing skin.
Here is a full set of twenty suits of high end female armor:
That's armor that you'd be wearing if you were actually playing the game rather than deliberately trying to take your clothes off to find out how much skin you can see. Are you seriously going to tell me that any of these are "immodest?" Are you going lean forward and squint your eyes to find the 2 out of 20 that show what would be about 4 inches of midriff on a human?
Is two out of twenty not totally covered head to toe like ninja not good enough?
Look at the death knight. Look at the rogue. Look at the warlock.
Would you even recognize them as female if you didn't know that they were? And yet here you are saying that oh, "at least
one modest choice exists."
The actual armor-armor shouldn't have giant navel gaps thoug
They don't! Look at that above image. The paladin is wearing armor. The warrior is wearing armor. No gaps. No stomach. No face even. Only the neck is exposed. They're not wearing gorgets. Can we agree that failing to wear gorgets is not an issue of sexualization? Now look at the the priest. She's the only one of that set with midriff showing. She' wearing
cloth rather than metal armor, and that was a design choice. Yes, one out of ten, ten percent...a tiny bit of midriff showing.
90% are not.
Here is
your original blood elf image. That's not armor. That's low level
clothing from the starter area. Here is the
following image that I linked in response. The one in the upper left is a blood elf wearing metal armor. As you can see, everything form the chin down, even her neck is covered. Altogether, four out of six have covered stomachs.
The
majority of the time, four out of six of our random google image search examples, the blood elves, who are by far the most sexualized of the races...are wearing clothes that does not expose their stomach. Even the
most sexualized examples are mostly wearing clothes. More clothing than the
real life girl scouts in church.
What is the standard here? What is your expectation? At what point will you be happy? Does it need to be 100%? Do we need censored boxes? Maybe dress them up in cardboard boxes? You're so
determined to find sexuality that you're were seriously complaining about pictures of women wearing clothing over the top of their armor earlier.
At what point do you start to suspect that maybe the games are not the problem?
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