I really don't get it at this point. Seems like some social justice people really have a bone with Alita.
https://screenrant.com/alita-design-problem-big-eyes-body/problem stated: Alita has "oversexualized" "large breasts" and a "small waist". Here is the screen cap provided:
Oh wow, those really
are "large" breasts, amirite? And check out this amazingly small waist and huge breasts in this shot:
The writer makes a big deal of Alita's "ideal body type" ... like they're supposed to make obese combat androids or some shit. I just think they wanted Alita to have a female appearance. Isn't it likely that the average female viewer is going to identify more with someone who has female body type than with some androgynous look.
So, the thing I'm trying to unravel in my mind is why writers who were 100% on board with Wonder Woman's boob-armor (and a waist every bit as small as Alita's, plus the mini-skirt and knee-high boots) are all up in arms about this movie's "breasts" and "waist" when they're clearly a non-issue. Alita is just athletic, but google "top female athletes" and you'll see that Alita's outfit is very tame compared to what female athletes wear.
My main thought is competition: they can brush off a male-fronted movie as irrelevant, but when there's a "(non-SJW) strong female lead", that needs to be taken down by these people. It gives an alternate view of what a strong woman can be like, and that's untenable ideological competition: similar to how people on your own side of politics can be your worst enemies. So, they attributed default complaints of "huge breasts / small waist" which might be true of Tomb Raider and other "geek" adaptations, to this thing, where it clearly doesn't even apply. Is she supposed to wear loose-fitting clothes to cover up those "sinful" curves? Are we back to the Puritan days now? Alita needs to hide her body-shape? And that's "empowering"?
Many of the articles slamming Alita spend more time complaining about how James Cameron was involved (from writers who praised Wonder Woman for having a female director) rather than discussing any of the things in the movie. Therefore, overt sexualization in Wonder Woman gets a free pass, and merely being female-body-type in this movie gets slammed as something horrendous.