Women's shoulders are narrower. The skeleton doesn't really change shape as you put on muscle, so a muscular woman is still much narrower across the shoulders and probably should be even if she's a cartoon character depicted as unreasonably buff. As such, her arms have can have a distinctly feminine shape even with big biceps if the artist is talented. However, untalented artists will simply make the whole body larger if they want to depict a character as muscular which leads to "Tiny head syndrome" where their head is disproportionately small compared to the rest of their body.
In the picture above, her shoulders are about 5 heads wide. This isn't really that attractive, this character design says villain to me. A character whose quest for power has left their body altered and no longer fully human.
5 heads wide is slightly wider than regular Hulk's, whose shoulders are typically depicted at 4-4.5, and his shoulders are already a bit freakishly wide to add to the bestial nature of his design.
Traditional heroes like Captain America generally have shoulders 3-3.5 heads wide. 3 is a good starting point for a typical male design, then you broaden them out just a bit to exaggerate the character to an ideal.
Regular She-Hulk is generally drawn with shoulders 2.5-3 heads wide. Wide for a woman, but still slightly narrower than a man's shoulders. In general, a broad shouldered woman will only go a bit higher than 2.5 headwidths. A cute, attractive woman will likely be closer to 2 head widths wide at the shoulders.
You can subtract another half headwidth off any of these character types if you want to make a teenage version, and you can drop down to 1.5 or 1 if you are drawing a small child. If you go lower than one than it really only works for very moe loli designs and super deformed characters which throw the basic body to head scale out the window.
Furthermore, the design posted in the OP has narrow hips and thighs compared to the shoulders. Bulking out the hips and thighs is a good way to make a character more muscular without making them less feminine. If you don't bulk out the hips or thighs, your character will look thin, prepubescent, or masculine. In this case it's pretty obviously the third case. However even if the artist was to do that, It seems unlikely that the picture would be better, as because the shoulders are already so inhumanly wide that bulking out the hips to match wouldn't balance the character out, but instead move them into the territory of unsettling deviant-art muscle fetish works featuring rippling slabs of meat that are difficult to identify with as a human, likely explaining why the hips and thighs were left as narrow as they were in the first place.
All of this is a very long way of saying the character looks more like Thanos in a wig than any sort of aspirational hero. I don't really know anything about marvel lore, so I have no idea what the character's supposed to be like.
This is like being in seventh grade and looking up big adjectives that you think sound cool, and sprinkling them liberally over your English paper without caring if they actually fit very well.
"I'm almost finished my new racial studies paper. How can I make it stand out from the 40 nearly Identical ones that came out this week? I know! This one has [Black Holes/Glaciers/Neutrinos/etc.] That makes it both more interesting, smarter, and REAL science."
I'm not going to subject myself to the dreck, but I'd be astonished if the paper even has an understanding of black holes on par with a D-Tier science fiction paperback.
Nothing. It's a small company and this is our busy season. We don't have time for pointless bullshit. Not that the composition of the company is such that it would put up with pride even if we weren't busy. Unless there is free beer, then maybe, but just for the beer.
Seems to overly prioritize tall and skinny. The 100s have plenty of girls that are cuter imo but not as tall and thin as the top scorers.
Around 4000+ they seem to be either genuinely ugly, fat, or androgynous. The androgynous ones come off as attractive relative to their direct competition to me. I'm sure tomboys in baggy jeans hold more appeal than whatever system this is giving them. (Though maybe a chubby chaser might be saying the same about the fat ones.)
I read Valis. Probably a waste of time as I can't remember any of it now, other than that two of the characters are actually both Phillip K Dick himself, and there was a space alien cult. That and most of it was really boring and didn't seem to have a point. I read the whole thing for some reason though. Can't remember why, I must have enjoyed it at least a little to do that. But I don't remember enjoying it at all.
The book is like a fever dream.
Do Androids was very good as the unfocused bits added to the atmosphere, and induced a confusion in the reader that I believe was intentional.
I'll have to read Ubik
Strange. Sometimes good strange sometimes so much strange that it's just confusing.
In general, his best works are the ones with a bit of grit to drag the whole thing down and provide something concrete for the characters to interact with. Otherwise I've noticed that his tendency to have multiple plots going on at the same time, and frequent episodes of surrealism makes it hard to keep track of things or figure out the point of the story.
Not that his weirder stuff is objectively bad, he's definitely a talented writer, but I don't get much out of it.
I would watch a movie about Guion Bluford. I'm an easy sell for astronaut movies, and it's a period of NASA's history that hasn't been done to death.
There's unfortunately the "hidden figures" problem where it would be likely that hollywood lefties would create fictional racist white people and segregation issues that never happened to "add" to the movie.
I disagree. On the contrary I think it is more important for women to develop discipline in a focused manner as they seem far less inclined to do so by natural inclination, especially in times of peace. When times are hard women's behavior changes significantly.
The problem is that society stops treating them like adults when times are not hard.
I think it's been well been well established at this point that women (as much as women are worth anything in a combat situation) do okay at situations that involve holding steady, but are terrible at anything involving explosive action or quick decision making (or anything where their smaller size and inferior muscle mass are obvious disadvantages).
Bomber Pilot, Copter pilot, sure. There are probably enough capable men that it isn't necessary, but it isn't an explicitly terrible idea like making a woman a fighter pilot is. I'm pretty sure even male fighter pilots have to have excellent cardiovascular health to avoid readout, and they've got bigger hearts that pump more blood, and beat slower at rest.
I'm torn when it comes to women in combat. There's the obvious point that it lowers survivability of troops in general when women are present on the battlefield, but combat training is excellent at promotion of discipline and physical health, something we could all use a bit more of in this day and age. Maybe reserves only?
That's a succinct way of describing it. I was thinking about this myself a while back, and "maintaining coherence" was basically what I determined was the most important function of gatekeeping, but I hadn't been able to describe it in so few words.
Who said anyone's life is focused on sex?
I don't think you'll find much pushback here if you point out that Pride parades are degenerate public displays of sexuality, but I'm all for people watching sexy anime alone in their own home.
It is possible to jack off to hentai twice a week, and be a functioning member of society with numerous other non-sexual hobbies, and a full time job.
You sound like a bible-thumping relic from a bygone era. I don't know know about anyone else here, but if ever a day comes that the lefties are well and truly defeated, I won't hesitate to start rallying against people on the right who want to tell me my hobbies are satanic, immoral, or whatever else is against their weird cult's worldview. Same annoying pieces of shit, just wearing a different coloured shirt and the buzzwords swapped out with a different set.
I don't think most people here want Right-Wing Puritans fucking with what they can and can't consume any more than they want the lefties doing it.
It's just that the lefties are a more pressing issue.
I'm sure you'll find people who agree with you, but the community's core premise is still "Stop fucking with our shit. Leave us alone. Stop telling us what we can and can't watch." So I doubt you'll find that the community at large is sympathetic to restricting anime under the guise of "Promoting Masculinity"
Yep. That's why this board is mostly political, with a bit of nerd slant. As opposed to KIA Prime which is forcibly focused on political subversion in gaming and nerd hobbies. KIA2 accepts that these people are ruining fucking everything and must be pushed back wherever they can be.
Mostly people who just want leftists to stop fucking with [video games, comics, anime dubbing, open source software, tv, science-fiction, movies] but have mostly now accepted that we will have to defeat them politically, because they just can't stand to leave anything the fuck alone.
So as long as they have power, and are destroying our hobbies, we're here.
I remember hearing a discussion of the doctor that stuck with me.
"He needs to be whimsical, a wise old man of the universe, and just a little broken."
Men want to be him, but Women both want to be whisked away by him on an adventure, and also want to try to fix him.
The gentlemanly aspects of the doctor are intrinsically linked to the structure of the show.
This is thrown out with a woman doctor.
Men generally don't fantasize about being whisked away on an adventure by a mysterious wise woman.
This structure can work switched, but you have to weaken the supernatural character more, make her a rather ordinary girl fleeing from supernatural forces using the power of a machine she doesn't really understand, and in desperate need of protection. There's your waifu bait.
Of course that wouldn't fly with a progressive board of approval, and also would be even more of a character break making it even harder for audiences to accept.
It would have been so much easier to go back to him being a dapper British dude with a face off the cover of a teen magazine. It wouldn't guarantee the show would be good, but it would have likely been a steady source of profit with a built in "thirsty teen girl" demographic.
Why wouldn't it make sense? Native Americans and Chinese don't riot, and there are only a handful of black people in Canada outside of Toronto and Vancouver.
Unsurprisingly, there's less racial tension other than from white leftists, and occasionally the "Residential Schools" or "Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women" from the natives. Certainly nothing like in the US.
In many places most of the cultural tension is French vs English.
This is solar and wind power's dark secret. The output fluctuates so you have to have something to compensate when output drops. Something that can be dialed up and down easily. Your choices are basically Oil and natural gas.