Okay, serious discussion if we may.
Is this politically objectionable?
I shared these pics with a female friend who is normally pretty easygoing and broad minded, certainly not prudish. She reacted strongly against it.
I can see some point to this: it can easily be interpreted as a obvious display of female genitals, being used as an entrance/exit point. If you're particularly vigilant about objectification of women, I can see it being objectionable. I can see this but I still think the weirdness of it is funny. She thought that the funniness was overwhelmed by the offensiveness.
She tried to convince me of this by asking how I would react if it were a male character with it's anus being used as the entrance. I reacted that it would be at least as funny (ha ha ha they're crawling up its arse!), and less offensive (since sexual violence towards men is much rarer than towards women). She had trouble believing my reaction.
So, once you've stopped laughing and wondering WTF the designers were up to and if they could possibly have not noticed... do you find this objectionable on grounds of pandering to the objectification of women and consequent sexual violence?
If you are male, would you react differently if it were an obviously male character with the anus being used as an entrance?
If you are a pervert ... do you find it ... arousing?
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Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008.
Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.
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