Cosplayers – who are mostly women – make their own costumes all the time, but women can’t make their own if they’re unsatisfied with the selection available, apparently.
Also, male heroes are not conventionally attractive, generally, nor are they often rich and powerful, which are also traits women commonly find attractive.
Also, costumes for little girls are commonly sexy, apparently.
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“Sexy fairy” is actually more covered up than Tinkerbell’s usual outfit*, and the sexy vampire is more of a trope for men than women. There was a popular book series called “Twilight” a while back, you may have heard of it.
* Cosplayers are generally sexier than “official” costumes, it seems.
I love how feministfromhogwarts seems to have this idea that women live with proverbial shock collars around their throats. That if ever a girl or woman dared to use her purchasing power and pick up a costume from the boys side, she’d be shocked by the collar into submission to the costumes labeled ‘girl’. Someone think of the poor feeble wimminz.
Like cry me a river hunty, buy whatever the fuck you want, that’s what a free country is. You make your choices, you make your decisions, you decide who you’re going to be, how you’re going to act, and what is going to define you. But guess you just too weak for that. And here all this time, I thought you were a shining example of what an empowered woman looks like. Guess your feminism didn’t do you too good if costume labels disempower you entirely.
We can take costumes from men’s side but excuse me if I would like to be a female superhero than being hulk. We have seen male superheroes dressed for a war and female superheroes dressed in frivolities. What I want to point out is the sexualisation of female characters. Of course we can go over men’s section to buy ourselves costumes, but why should we need to in the first place?
Yet you do not seem to be considering the fact that if men want to be “sexy” then looks like their options are to have to peruse the female side.
So we are at an impasse on sexualization. There are also multiple costume stores, not just one costume store in existence. So not all stores will have this type of selection shown in the comic. There is also online shopping, which is way more relevant in purchasing any kind of costume you want and the selection is nigh endless.
But you are acting as if there is only one sort of option, one sort of store, and therefore only one set of possible selections. We all are here saying “that’s because you’re viewing things too narrowly”, and you are. There are multiple options, and with multiple options comes the requirement that if you want to partake in them, you have to put forth the effort to find and access them. If you want to be stubborn and only engage in one set of options, well that’s your choice, but it does not allow you to pretend as if that is the only set of options in existence because that is being willfully ignorant. Also if you only choose to engage with one set of options despite multiple being out there and available to you if you put in the effort, then that means you have waived your right to complain about the options because you’ve limited yourself to that specific set, no one else made that choice for you, only you made that choice for yourself.
Ya’ll arguing polotics and social bullshit when the more important questions are 1: why is she in the adult section, and 2: why is the adult section right next to the boys?
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