Astro said:
You keep missing my point. It doesn't matter what you think about a certain character, it's contemptible to be intentionally overly sexually provocative at a gaming convention - even if you really like Mad Moxxi. A person who does this isn't just indulging a hobby, they're purposefully assuming a role that's guaranteed to have men giving them a lot of sexual attention. If it were a pornographic convention it would be fine, but the people at gaming conventions are there because they like videogames, not because they want to be manipulated into being enamored by someone who isn't contributing anything of worth. I should also mention that a person who's in a scantily clad costume whose intention isn't to draw attention to themselves isn't necessarily contemptible, but they are a dunce and oblivious to their own blatantly inappropriate behavior.
I don't care how you feel about the rest of my position, and I'm not particularly interested in convincing you that women dressing in absurdly sexualized costumes at a focal point for an interest that is predominantly enjoyed by dorky males aren't doing it for attention.
Technically people can do a lot of things which other people don't like without any repercussions, but following that up with 'that must mean it's appropriate and it's ideal that they're allowed to do whatever they want within the confines of the law' is weepy bullshit. I don't care that you want to cosplay Mad Moxxi and you happen to have huge breasts, it's disruptive and inconsiderate if you choose to do so.
How is it contemptible? Merely because it is provocative? Did the woman in question
ACTUALLY DO anything to warrant that description, or is it you enforcing your bias on her outfit?
How do you know she is not indulging in a hobby? She may be a fan of the cosplay character, and alternately she may be a hobby of going to conventions.
You are arguing from a position that you know her motives, her sexualization, her inappropriateness... did you actually go have a conversation with the woman? Was she actually a dunce with no clue about the character she was playing? Did she go out of her way to attract the attention of males only?
I suspect the answer is no, you didn't speak to the woman, because she would know about Moxie, she could tell you about Borderlands, and she just may shatter your well constructed delusions about her.
Oh, the horror, when I go to comic cons and sci-fi cons in the year 2012 there are attractive Batgirls and Supergirls, sexy women who fill out sexy Star Trek uniforms, Princess Leia's, and a dead-ringer for #6 in Battlestar, oh the HORROR the young people face in the circle of geeks these days!!
I went to a comic con in 1989 in Buffalo. There wasn't an interested female within 25 miles of that venue. There wasn't even a REAL nerd girl, let alone a throng of them, along with the "fake" ones.
An attractive girl spends a pay cheque on a costume, gets an all access pass to the event, spends an entire weekend dressed up to meet people while getting sneered, jeered, and leered at by a pack of ungrateful pricks.
DOESN'T LEAVE because of those pricks, and she is still considered a "fake".
If I could trade Comic Con 1989 for 2012, I'd do it in a heartbeat, and so would a ton of older nerd and geeks. You (not the quoted person specifically, but this generation of teenage male nerds) have hot women with an interest in your interests at your conventions. At or nearing your sexual peak, and you are
COMPLAINING???
I am starting to sounds like my dad on this one, but I do not understand this generation.