Thoughts on this femanons argument?
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I'm not sure if it's a shitpost or not. Making their picture a character (Otome Saotome) from a raunchy comedy who is a literal rebel artist drawing sexy things underground in a puritanical society where they've been banned... and then arguing that sexy characters are bad is quite an achievement of cognitive dissonance.
The main problem with this is she's arguing against a complete strawman. The "sanitized, clean beauty" thing is not what anyone is demanding. Sure it looks good on a character like 2B who's appearance is deliberately at odds with the environment - but the only issues people had with Tomb Raider (2013)'s design was that it was an unnecessary redesign of Lara. If you'd put that design in an original IP, no one was going "Ew! You've gotten some mud and blood on her face. I hate this game now!"
Gamers aren't asking for nothing blowup dolls and porn stars. Just stop giving female MC's deliberately unattractive body and face proportions. Then you can make them as filthy, brutal, and inelegant as you want. No one will mind. No one had an issue with HZD1 Aloy. No one liked Nikocado-Avocado-face Aloy.
C1 and C2 are fine statements. Just don't expect it to be well received or financially successful. You're still allowed to make what you want to make. You just can't demand that people buy it or like it.