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While I 100% agree with the sign, I don't think that cosplay is appropriate for walking the floor at comicon. Maybe I'm just becoming an old prude, but that girl is practically nude, and comicon is an all-ages event. I'm not saying she deserves to be harassed, and I'm not letting anyone off the hook for being a creep to her, but that kind of cosplay should be reserved for photo shoots or adults-only environments.
Theres a double standard at play here though. The amount of skin exposure is comparable, yet one is unacceptable.
Double standard is part of it, but sexualization isn't just about how much skin is showing. This outfit shows about as much skin as the Conan cosplay, but is clearly more sexualized:
A Supergirl or Powergirl cosplay can also be revealing, and while you might find someone in that cosplay (or the Conan cosplay) sexual attractive, they're not as sexually suggestive as what this girl is wearing (which is essentially some belts held together with body tape, I presume). The line is blurry and dependent on context, but I would say this is over that line.
Neither is unacceptable depending on context.
Walking in a supermarket? Both unacceptable
Comic-con? Both are looking for attention. But no touching, you weirdos.
Can I opt into a society where both costumes at the supermarket are acceptable?
Those costumes are too cool to only wear a couple times per year.
It appears that the NYC Comic Con guideline is "Skimpy costumes are permitted though concessions to accuracy are needed if skimpy to the point of negligible coverage i.e. less than typical swimwear."
It is, of course, up to the enforcer, but I would evaluate the Nonon cosplayer as "less than typical swimwear", and the Conan cosplayer to be about the same as typical swimwear. Some skin-colored underlayer would've made it more safe.
I would feel uncomfortable, if that dude in his shorts approached me.
Did anyone say it was unacceptable? You think dollar store Conan here isnt being touched just as much as the girl in the OP?
Why would someone with any age have a problem with nearly nude woman running around? Go touch some Grass in the Park or Beach Sand in the summer or go to a public swimming pool. Everyone is there everyone is there (nearly) nude.
Yeah but that's why context matters. Wearing a bikini at the beach is one thing, wearing it to a job interview is another. I know this line can be blurry with comic book characters since most of them wear fairly revealing outfits, but I would say wearing one of the hyper-sexualized outfits from the anime about high-school girls who get superpowers when their outfits get more sexually explicit is probably too sexual explicit for an all-ages event.
Oh fuck all the way off. Let a woman dress however she wants. If a Luffy or Conan costume is okay, what this woman is wearing is okay too.
Sometimes women like drawing gazes. The point is it should always stop at gazes.
Fuck all the way off with this. There's nothing wrong with wanting to draw gazes, but that doesn't mean every way of doing that is appropriate for every situation. If you want to draw gazes at a dinner party you wear a low-cut black dress, not a mesh tank top and assless chaps.
Stop. Policing. Women’s. Clothes.
She isn’t at a dinner party, she’s at a convention.
What she’s wearing is an accurate and well-done cosplay, and that is 100% appropriate attire for the setting. It would be the equivalent of a ‘low cut black dress’, you sexist asshole.
Edit: Which shouldn’t matter anyways, because cosplay is not consent. A woman should be able to walk around naked in public without getting sexually harassed, never mind while wearing what she likes. Clothes are never consent. No matter if you judge them ‘appropriate’ or not.
It's appropriate attire for the setting in your opinion. I think wearing a hyper-sexualized outfit from a hyper-sexualized anime in a situation where children will be present isn't appropriate. You're welcome to disagree, but don't try to high-road me because of it.
How do you think children will be negatively impacted by nude woman?
I don't think children will be negatively impacted by nudity, but I think they will be negatively impacted by sexualized nudity (and there are a lot of studies that back that up). I wouldn't shield my child from a woman wearing a bikini or breastfeeding, but I also wouldn't bring him to a strip club or show him porn. I think dressing as one of the characters characters from High School Superpowered Sex Uniforms falls into the latter category.
Strip Club and porn have a sexual interaction, but here its just a woman running around like all the others in their costumes.
Yes, but an outfit can be inherently sexual. Fetish gear is inherently sexual, even if you're not doing something sexual in it.
Little children wouldn't know and understand and would just think "weird or funny costume" But teenagers who know, know it already and thus it isn't a problem.
I think that is true for very young children; my son is less than three, is just developing a concept of gender, and regularly tries to take his clothes off whenever he feels like it. I'd be more concerned with the pre-pubescent ages, around 7 to 10. Studies show that kids around this age, who get exposed to more sexualized content, develop more negative associations, like being more likely to associate a person's worth and their sexual appeal, more likely to sexual objectify themselves or others, and being unable view human beauty out side of sexual attractiveness.
That being said, seeing one girl in a risqué outfit is more likely to lead to an awkward conversation for a parent than anything else, but in my opinion, its probably not healthy for this kind of cosplay to be the norm at comicon if comicon is going to remain an all-ages event. But again, this line is blurry, and it's possible if just become an old prude since having a kid.
I respectfully disagree. There is nothing to be ashamed about. The human lack of fur is no cause for shaming. It is nature. The sadistic shaming is the cause of bad behavior. The taboo bottles people and creates the tension that leads to uncontrolled release due to a lack of self exploration and growth. The dogma culture of Puritan masochistic emotional austerity is harmful. Humans are valid for being themselves without anyone else having a right to project their dogma onto anyone else. The Hippocratic aphorism "first do no harm" – so live and let live in peace is all that matters. No harm is done by dressing in any fashion a person chooses, so no one has a right to interfere.
(Hardcore) Porn that shows kids an unreal act and can make people addicted is bad. But nude bodies IRL are good.
If your kids are mature enough to read the comics at the convention then they're mature enough to see people walking around dressed like the characters, right? Why overthink this?
Well, "comics," is a big medium, and what's appropriate will vary from comic to comic. I'm kinda having this problem at the moment; my toddler is obsessed with Superman, but since his age appropriateness can vary wildly, I have to be very selective with what media I let him see. I can basically show him the old Superfriends cartoon, some episodes of the 90s show, and the non-racist fliescher serials.
But either way, last time I was at Comicon (3 or 4 years ago), there were a ton of kids there, and last I check, anyone under 13 was free. It is, at least outwardly, a very pro-kid event. I don't think it's unreasonable to say that some cosplay might be too sexual for an environment where you expect to see children.
I don't think it's unreasonable to put the responsibility on parents to determine what's appropriate for their children to see.
Well, that's true, but I also think it's unreasonable to expect people to think about what event they're going and dress appropriately. In the same way you might decide not to wear your super hilarious, "I'm not as think as you drunk I am," t-shirt while visiting your friend in rehab, I think it's not unreasonable to think about whether children will be present before you wear a very sexual outfit from a very sexual anime.
There are certainly shades of this, and it's not universal. If you're complaining that someone's Wonder Woman cosplay is too revealing, then comicon probably isn't for you. To me though, this is a lot more revealing and sexual than I would expect to see at comicon (and that I have seen when I've gone IRL).
He uhh soo could you stop sexualizing female bodies? Kthxxbyee
Edit: calling it now, the people downvoting this are exactly the type of people that are the reason for the sign to exist. Yikes.
Hmmm
Yeah that's the point. Naked bodies aren't inherently sexual.
The individual in the pic is presenting themselves sexually. That is the point of the pic - that a person sexualizing themselves isn't making themselves universally available.
disagree, she isn't sexual. she's just standing there. you are the one who is sexualising her.
you will disagree and say that it's because of how sexual she is, but that is only in your eye.
By your metric, no one can ever sexualize themselves. No woman can say "I want to look sexy so I will wear this sexy dress." Which is clearly ridiculous
it's quite telling how consent is a hard concept for you to understand.
"don't rape people please"
"but what if someone wants sex? he checkmate"
Ok your previous opinion was dumb but at least valid. How tf are you getting this from what he said? Deranged
Not always, but they can be presented in a sexual manner
Not living up to your username at all
Can't cause I am generally sexually attracted to people who register as feminine in my caveman brain. But not just the woman, but the femboys and enbies too!