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    i like it when my pornography creeps up in non-porn places, but that’s because my crippling addiction to porn has made porn boring

    recently i even jerked off to a rubik’s cube because it was the least porn thing i could think of

    that slutty-ass cube

  • This isn’t a power girl movie and the actress playing supergirl is nowhere near buxom enough to play her even if it were one. Supergirl’s outfit has never looked like the left.

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      In much of her history, she’s also quite young. Young enough to live in an orphanage in the golden age before getting foster/adoptive parents. Sometimes she’s an adult in the 20-24ish range. But it seems like every time the canon gets reset for her she’s canonically 16 again. And as such she’s almost always dressed pretty reasonably by Superheroine standards.

      She almost always wears a skirt and briefs, if not shorts, tights, pants or full legged unitard. Don’t know that she has ever been depicted as particularly busty.

      In fact, it is a running gag that her Earth 2 counterpart, Powergirl, is famously quite busty and confident his her body (boob window and all), particularly in comparison to Supergirl.

      For comparison sake:

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    This was a whole plot point of season one of The Boys in which Vought International forces Starlight to wear a skimpier costume (this after she was already sexually assaulted by The Deep).

    Reality imitates art, I guess.

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      I mean, the boys was meant as biting social commentary so not sure where we are in the cart/horse equation here.

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      That guy’s stuff is always really on the nose. Watch ‘preacher’, his previous adapted-for-tv work. Its about American Christianity, conservative politics, and their conspiracies. Blunt, crass, pointlessly violent, politically kind of inchoate beyond the negative ‘this is all dumb Nazi shit’ but said amusingly ever so often. Eugenics Jesus was a pretty good gag about american myth and Nazi racial mythology.

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        I read the Preacher comic and… I gotta say, it falls off fast after the first couple of chapters. The mature-ish grotesquerie made to deliver context early on devolves into pure juvenille banging-my-action-figures-together by the end.

        Eugenics Jesus was a pretty good gag about american myth and Nazi racial mythology.

        I enjoyed “What if the Catholic Church tried to Hapsburg Family the Desposyni” as a concept. The execution was crass and fell flat. They could have had a legitimately interesting story arc introducing a severely disabled Jesus descendant capable of the odd miracle who the straight white male able-bodied main character could engage with. But it was more fun to make poop jokes and then splatter them in the punchline panel.

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          Only saw the tv, but the concept is almost exactly how the Nazis conceptualized the whole ‘master race’ thing,in addition to megahapsburg.

          And the idea of breeding jesuses is pretty funny. But yes it did all kind of devolve to that.

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            And the idea of breeding jesuses is pretty funny.

            It’s a great setup for a long running joke. One reason why Garth Ennis is so obnoxious. He loves to squander a good premise on a cheap punchline.

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      It’s nutpicking, to a degree. The odds of finding someone who wants to fuck the cartoons approaches 1.0 lightning fast on the internet. I’m less disgusted with the guy whining about an uninspiring upskirt shot (literally, why even shoot that frame? You could just not point the camera there!) I’m more disgusted with the AI Slop in the first panel, where they’ve replaced Kara Zor-El’s legs with the Hulk’s for some reason.

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      There’s probably something from the 90s/early 00s with her dressed like that. Comics were really ramping it up for a while there. Not that teenager me was complaining.

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        Its called algospeak and it’s one of the most retarded fucking things ever.

        Its the first time I’ve ever thought that the children are infact doomed and retarded.

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        ‘Everyone’ being violent prudes who worship at rge altars of Comstock and McCarthy.

        People who work in industries like porn, people whose existence is often censored, and people who identify/sympathize with obscenity because their existence is regarded as obscenity do not count. Fuck them. They’re all trash.

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      Because most of the people on Lemmy are refugees from reddit and nowadays on reddit, if you are not a porn focused sub then they require you to censor every damn thing or face getting banned from that particular subreddit, getting banned from several subreddits depending on who’s modding and how many subs they are modding and how fucking stupid their bots happen to be, or getting banned from the entire site by the admins on their particular whim for that day/week.

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      Someone else already answered the why. What I think the best reaction is when you see this kind of bullshit censorship is just down vote it.

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    This is my exact stance. I want my porn separate from my non-porn.

    People that just have badonkulous jiggle physics blasting while they play a normal game baffle me.

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      I’m like this about food.

      I like my candy and food to be separate. All this candy-masquerading-as-food, like sweetened yogurt and cranberry sauce, can get bent.

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      I get you but also I feel like this is an unrealized pushback to just how sanitized a lot of mainstream culture has become. I feel like a lot of media up until about the 2010s give or take had a lot of sexual elements without being porn outright and while not necessarily being erotic, it really does feel like a weird bit of cultural puritanism especially given how hot a lot of actors are.

      In summary a lot of things are hot but basically nothing is sexy and it’s weird.

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        My issue with “porn in nonporn” is it almost always feels objectifying. Like the gooner Supergirl in the OP image: if her character liked the look of a battlethong and owned it, then that’s fine. It might even factor into the story. But if she just looks like that and acts like things are normal, then it’s like she is being sexed up solely for some nondiegetic viewer. It gives me the same sort of voyeuristic ick as invisible people peeping in locker rooms or perverts abusing X-Ray glasses.

        I don’t mind Skinemax; like softcore porn is fine. Because everyone understands the assignment.

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          I can only think of maybe a small handful of positive instances of “porn in nonporn”. For example, Bayonetta as a character is very much aware of her sexiness, and approves of flaunting it. Compare that to something like Stellar Blade, where the Eve is just “accidentally” super hot, with zero self awareness.

          I agree, is what I’m saying.

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            And that makes a huge difference imo. Both are designed to be hot and gazed at, but Bayonetta is at least given watsonian agency. The character is in this way believable, because yeah the people in real life who dress super skimpy in a fashionable way are typically doing so on purpose.

            The realistic version of the “hot chick who just happens to be dressing skimpy” would probably be just dressing plainly for hot weather. But it would be a distinct and interesting character design choice to have a major character in a video game just wearing cutoff shorts, a tank top, and practical sandals. That character design feels much more aimed at female players than male ones, and like if in a genre with lots of skimpy outfits would be an intentional rejection of the trope.

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          I get what you’re saying and I agree to an extent but even shit like that doesn’t really exist anymore. Like I said it feels like something over corrected when moving away from objectification and right into puritanism. I don’t quite have the verbage required to quite explain what I mean, it just kinda feels like a lot of media and even culture is outright sex averse in a weird way.

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            I’d say that is a US-centric concern (and media that expects the US market), maybe even more broadly a Western concern. Japan at least, uh, has not had much of a concern with sexifying…pretty much anything.

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              Sure but that’s one country. Mind you I’m more or less referring to the anglosphere but I’ve noticed it as a general trend overall, it may also be effecting other western nations as well I’m just not aware on that front. Don’t get me wrong I’m kinda happy the Japanese are so open with that shit but it’s still frustrating when they seem to be the only ones, also localization censorship is still a thing and can get fucked six ways from Sunday.

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          Yeah I think there’s this huge gap between the image on the left and say the way the parents acted in Malcolm in the Middle. The former is sexually suggestive in a sterile way. It’s like if your accountant was working in their underwear. The latter is sexual without being sexy. It’s a married couple who has a major character trait of trying to fit some boinking into any gap in the schedule they can. It doesn’t try to titilate the viewer, but instead just depicts sex as a normal part of adult life.

          I’m not saying one shouldn’t have sexy characters, but when it’s emphasized the sexy should always serve the character. None of this “she breathes through her skin” nonsense. No you want a superhero in a blatantly sexual outfit, then tell us about how they’re insecure and showing skin to deal with it, or that they’re using sexuality to cope with the stress and difficulties of their job, or even just that they really like feeling hot. Have them acknowledge the sex behind the sexual choices the designers made.

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      It is bloody irritating when there’s anime boobies in my face, while trying to loot my enemies for every resource they have.

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    What we want: henry cavill in the exact outfit on the left

    What we got: henry cavill in the normal superman outfit

    Not pictured: an AI rendering of the above, because do we really need to spend resources on that?

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      “Yes, we must acceleray the atmospheric cooking of the planet to make an uncanny valley rendition of a meme we have already clearly explained with words that maybe a dozen people will see and exhale out their nose breifly at” - too many people, for some reason

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        I know a dozen fanfic artists who have already drawn it or similar imagery for free

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    I mean, I’m as much of a gooner as the next guy but if you don’t think the one on the right is hot that’s a you problem.

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    As a woman, I kinda thought for a second that the costume on the left looks kinda cool. Then I remembered chub rub exists and visibly recoiled. It would be so painful to walk around in that jfc

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    It’s not even a horny thing, but the one on the left is just too distracting. I’d be staring at it the whole time just trying to figure out why Supergirl made that choice.

    Her thighs would always be cold. Any major combat movement is going to make her bits show. It looks like she literally cut her shorts into that shape.

    Like… I like attractive women too, but come on, guys. There’s no way in hell she’d wear her costume like that. I’d just be annoyed by it the whole time.

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      Any major combat movement is going to make her bits show.

      Hence distracting the villains and gaining tactical advantage!

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      Same. I’m a gooner. But I like building into the fantasy. I like the role play starting with “Ooh, I’m a tough mage overestimating herself, here I go in this dungeon” - but starting that mage out in nothing but a thong pulls me out.

      Write situations where it makes sense to briefly see someone in their underwear, I won’t deny being satisfied. But you’d have to write. People still need regular clothes

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      She wouldn’t care about the cold, she can survive without discomfort in the vacuum of space or in a house fire.

      I mean, realistically her and Superman’s clothes should rip off within milliseconds of them doing 99% of the things they end up doing.

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        I’m half remembering a scene from I think one of the justice league movies where they explain that Superman’s invulnerability field extends like a millimeter from his skin, mostly protecting his clothes. Something about his powers being based around a telekinetic field projection that, for example, lets him hold entire buildings by a single corner without them crumbling into bricks.

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        And I’d watch that. It would be much more fun to watch. It would be a good scene. It would highlight the whole ‘world of cardboard’ thing, and be kinda hot, and set up dramatic or comedic payoffs later.

        You don’t even have to do anything nsfw to play with the concept. Burning the pants off one leg or superman’s shirt would get the point across if they wanted to. They do not.

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      Any major combat movement is going to make her bits show.

      She is an alien, so maybe she doesn’t have bits like humans.

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    Speak for yourself. Kryptonians, like Saiyans, exist for the cool ass fight scenes and saying shit like “The world belongs to its people, not tyrants”. (Maybe Saiyans dont say that lol)

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      Maybe Saiyans dont say that lol

      Obviously, because Saiyans also have a tyrant, King Vegeta. Saiyan are born warrior and compassion aren’t being taught as it’s treated as a weakness amongst them, so they’re basically a race of ruthless fighter, and King Vegeta is on the top of that. He went and conquer the stars, and only stopped because of Frieza, the bigger tyrant.

      The only good saiyan is Goku, all due to the head trauma and also raised by Gohan. Vegeta only being good because of the bigger tyrant, Bulma.

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          Defeating the tyrants encroaching on their turf.

          It is said that when a Saiyen warrior is territorial enough then it’s hair will change colors and it’ll get far stronger and far more violent.

          “This sector’s only big enough for 1 tyrant, Imma woop your ass!” Super Saiyen noises