Serious question I’d be interested to hear from people in the cosplay community, particularly females...



In games, comics, etc you regularly hear people complain about how women are portrayed. Their outfits, cleavage, etc(I’m not talking story, just their image). Being “sexy” is relied on too often. However I feel like most women(or girls) who actually follow or enjoy the medium have no issue with it. I realize these people are mimicking the characters, but they have every opportunity to alter the outfits in a way to negate this trope yet they don’t. In fact in many cases they are deliberately going out of their way to make things sexier, often times where it didn’t even exist in the first place.

My question is this stereotype that people are appalled that females characters are too often referred to as sex symbols actually an issue, or just something that people like to throw out there as social justice warriors. Because to me it seems that both men and women are fine with these stereotypes, not all the time, but don’t take them too seriously in the end. Many men want to feel strong, which most male characters portray in some way, be it muscle or intelligence. On the counter side most women enjoy feeling sexy and powerful(revealing clothing and intelligent).

I’m not much of a cosplay person, I don’t even dress up for Halloween, but i get why people do it. All that being said I think these are seriously incredible. Nice work to anyone involved!