Hey, hey, no, I know what a cosplayer is and that she is one. But there's people cosplaying Alice or that woman from Bioshock, and then there's people doing Lara Croft, Morrigan Aensland, Chobits or even riskier characters.



I don't know what I'd cosplay if I was handsome, and it is very probable that I wouldn't be disgusted by girls stating how good I look - rather, I think I'd be pretty happy, even if they oogled lustfully over me. That's what society tells me I should appreciate, and I don't like this society but I grew in it, so most of its teachings got stuck in my brain nevertheless - society made me who I am. I still think I have enough brains to appreciate self-control and respect even if they're somewhat detrimental to me enjoyng my life at its fullest (and what a horrible fullest would it be, living like a savage beast, taking what I could! I don't want this kind of life. Still I think I'm sometimes at the other side of the spectrum, livin an almost monastic life in order like if there were only the two ends of the spectrum).



Anyway, whoever created that estabilished image did it for marketing reasons, I'm pretty sure. There's a lot of people who buy games because of their aesthetics, and then there's collateral merchandise. Good job, you got us, we like and we buy. But we also learn to have higher standards than we should have, we now think this is desirable, that it'd be good if beautiful women went dressed like that in everyday life. Cosplayers don't do this everyday, I know. But they open a dangerous breach into reality for such lusts.



Of course, I don't think that's what they want to do. Unless they're trying to play the gold digger with some rich otaku (oh, the oxymoron!). But I can't stop thinking at these horny males telling each other how much they'd ruin her pretty face and behaving just like the animals they are. And I don't want to be mistaken for them, and I don't want to reinforce the image that it's all good that those people have. I need to show that I'm behaving differently, in the hope that someone will see that I'm being civil yet I still like a good-looking woman when I see one.



That's why I write a lot, I believe. Because I just like what I see and I feel the need to praise good things, and to criticize imperfect ones, and to do a lot of other stupid things.



And then I just don't know if cosplayers this risky are contributing to the problem - but at the same time if that's what they like to do why not. It's not them who have to change, it's us. Ah, were we able to resist all of our urges without effort, what a better world would this be.