This is everything wrong with this hobby in one photo.

[Blackthornone]

You are attempting to justify what is pure objectification of women by men because you can find similarities in how real women behave.

The woman in photo choose to dress like that, which is perfectly fine by me. I've never dressed quite that skimpy, but I did once get a 'talking to' at a job for my short skirts.

That woman has a real personality, real motivations, real sexuality and sincerely appears to be having a good time.

She is definitely not just some fetishised would-be f__k doll like the Black Widow custom or hundred other similar products in this hobby.

The fact you connect them is the problem. Women should be able to be sexy on our terms without men feeling that it gives you some carte blanche license to turn us into basically sexual automotons.

As I see it, the woman in that picture is wearing it for attention, and is having a great time because of all the attention she is getting, by utilizing her sexual attractiveness to improve her quality of life.
With real women having no problem with utilizing their sexuality to improve their quality of life, by comparison, men (or women, for that matter) who make custom sexy action figures or statues or art seems very mild by comparison.

To me, these figures are pure FANTASY, and as such, are not directed at, nor do they even involve real women at all, and so there is no reason for any real woman to be offended by same.

Honestly, these sexy figures have no more to do with real women than the men who own them have anything to do with real women.


The fact that the action figure you posted is of Black Widow played by a real woman, Scarlett Johansson blurs the line a bit though, however, the figure really doesn't look like her anyway.

I don't believe that these figures were intended to respect or disrespect women. They are intended to represent a woman for the person who made it, in this case of the Black Widow Iron Man armor, represents capturing a moment in time, in which Black Widow puts on this sexy outfit like a Victoria Secret lingerie show just for the person who made it, or perhaps a select few others who see it, or Tony Stark, ect.

I do not believe that this custom was intended to be the outfit the character wears when she is fighting crime.
These things are ultimately pieces of painted plastic, shaped in a certain way to represent something else. The issue here is, What DOES it represent? Like many works of art, what it actually represents is in the eye of the beholder.

The premise of your objection to it is that it was conceived deliberately as a slight against all women in general, as an example of women's proper place in the world, when in reality, the maker of the figure might not have had any such intention in making it.
I think you may very well be seeing things about the figure that are not actually there.

Your objection to the figure smacks pretty strongly of art censorship, quite frankly.

However, it would be totally different if the figure was put on display at a women's rights convention, and a man was sitting there at the display with his custom. THEN your objections would have merit.

 

[Frank]

^ Yeah, I think the argument here is that men should find women sexy based on women's criteria of what should be sexy which is impossible to impose. It's philosophical runoff from various feminist movements who were extremely successful in getting women into traditional male power structures, but found to the detriment of womankind that higher status women have a smaller pool of mates to choose from. There's alot of loneliness out there. Instead of changing their own world view, they would prefer to argue men out of their own natural preferences.

There's another element here too. Women are natural filters for dominant men. When they sense dweebs, they go into purge mode. That's all this is.

Dweeb on brothers.

I'm so offended, I can barely jerk off to this hot picture:

That's sexist.

Women are beasts. I'm so offended, I can't even type.

 

[Blackthornone]

i feel like you all missed the point. The point is why would someone want to create a Iron Man female to look like this because it looks ridiculous. If your going to create female versions of something why do they have to be in this kind of ridiculous costume. And its amazing how a lot of you guys think its cool.

So this thread further shows how immature people can be with this hobby posting other ridiculous female toys and figures doing offensive things. Pretty much the lowest of the low IMO.

Not all women are offended by this stuff and I dont think the point was to say 100% all women are offended because this stuff really more or less just laughable and immature behavior, but atleast you should understand why women would be offended. And very few of you seem to understand.

ok done!

I don't think it's a female version of Iron Man. I think it's like when a woman puts on her boyfriends shirt after sex.

 

[crows]

I don't think it's a female version of Iron Man. I think it's like when a woman puts on her boyfriends shirt after sex.

I didn't know Iron Man wore heels

 

[Blackthornone]

I didn't know Iron Man wore heels

Well, like I said, it's the Victoria Secret version.

 

[crows]

another one:

 

[Frank]

^ Technically the iron girl dancers are film cannon.

 

[crows]

I'm just saying that girl don't love herself.

 

[The Entity]

 

[Sweet Rabbit]

This thread sure backfired

 

[Voorhees27]

another one:

How dare you post that here you male chauvinist pig! You should have more sympathy towards women that are forced to dress and pose that way. *******.

 

[crows]

How dare you post that here you male chauvinist pig! You should have more sympathy towards women that are forced to dress and pose that way. *******.

(she wasn't forced, she enjoys it )

 

[Voorhees27]

She's made her mother proud i'm sure.

 

[Uncanny Web-Slinger]

This thread sure backfired

Well it is populated by Males

 

[Darth Madden]

Well, not being a woman I can't really talk about this stuff objectifying them since thats a personal matter to each woman. But what I do find funny (and kind of sad) about this hobby is when all the male characters are covered from head to toe with armor and spikes and chains but the woman fighting right next to them are in bikinies... or less. I know why they make them that way but I just have to laugh every time I see it.

 

[Voorhees27]

That's like blaming the Johns for prostitution. But I know what you're saying.

 

[steveo]

Do we even know if this custom was created by a male or are we just assuming?

 

[SnakeDoctor]

https://www.sideshowtoy.com/?page_id=4489&sku=6818

I actually rather like that. Probably wouldn't buy it ... but I can see why somebody would.

Well, not being a woman I can't really talk about this stuff objectifying them since thats a personal matter to each woman.

Objectifying is still not a crime. Not really a subjective personal matter, either.

Do we even know if this custom was created by a male or are we just assuming?

Its a fair assumption.

SnakeDoc

 

[Darth Snoopy]

another one:

Sexist or not...I love a good looking woman with confidence to wear a cosplay costume in public.

 

[Darth Madden]

Objectifying is still not a crime. Not really a subjective personal matter, either.

Of course it is a personal matter. If a woman is not offended by it then thats her personal opinion.