I figured as much. It seemed more likely to me that increased reporting of sexual harassment by concerned, vocal individuals or groups than the community itself getting worse. I would not put it past a community largely held together through the internet to get more exclusive over time, but I did not get that impression from conventions. In real life, the anonymity goes away and forces people to behave themselves more than they would through a forum or comments section.Winnosh said:
Kahani said:
Really? You just stated that he could of simply said "We will try to find more male cosplayers but for now this is all we have"MinionJoe said:
Except that he started it first when he then went on to say "Start a sexy men's cosplay club" to one of the customers when the women in question didn't even bring up the sexiness of the male cosplayers and that obviously spiraled into what it is now.MinionJoe said:
You appear to have missed the important point - why the hell not? Are parents terrified of taking their children to the beach because they might see someone in a bikini? If not, what exactly is so bad about seeing people who are almost all wearing significantly more than that?Dragonbums said:
Because at that point the bikini has been normalized as regular swim wear. Granted parents also have the choice of going there where there aren't many people around, or they can isolate themselves to a private part of the beach where the chances of running into those people are at minimum. Not to mention most beaches don't advertise themselves as family friendly.Kahani said:
Which she literally addressed in the next post that the ratio of male to female cosplayers was heavily skewed to the female side than the males. You even have a male cosplayer on here talking about how sad it is seeing as how they work just as hard on cosplay as the women and unless it's professional level quality they almost never get featured.MinionJoe said:
Which is entirely his fault because as you just stated the women in question never brought up the attractiveness of the cosplayers in the first place.
Not exactly. Since the OP stated that attractiveness may have been one of the reasons why there were more female cosplayers in the group than male cosplayers it wouldn't be unlikely to detract that the convention is more catered towards men for the eye candy grab.
No it doesn't. But you can't deny the situation would never of blown up like it did had the man had the decency to not post a private message politely asking for a refund due to the way she was treated on his public Facebook profile for his friends to tear her apart. An incident that caught the attention of another user who is very well known within the feminist community.
I think it's a matter of people not remaining silent about it any longer. Similar to how, when sexual harassment became something people talked about publicly. It's not that all of a sudden everyone in the workplace got seriously harrassy, it's that there'd always been this big problem but now people were finally calling it out. The increased attention can make it seem like it's getting worse, but it's actually getting better, if that makes sense, even though, of course, it's still a problem.Mezahmay said:
You're still not answering the question - why not? What exactly do you find so terrible about a bit of skin, in particular those bits of skin that are entirely legal to show and frequently seen in many public areas, that you think children should be prevented from seeing it at all costs? The idea that a few skimpy costumes mean a place is suddenly not appropriate for families at all is utterly ridiculous.Dragonbums said: