November 3rd, 2014 -- by Bacchus
Women In Armor
It’s been trendy for some years now to offer feminist critiques of the way women are depicted wearing armor in fantasy settings. But apparently the problem is not all that new:
Photo is from Wicked Knickers, but it must have a context. That this context is unknown to me? A source of unreasoning angst so great that I may yet be devoured by it.
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The flag the woman on the right is holding is a tricolor maybe? That might make her Marianne (personification of Liberty)?
If so I guess that would cast her sidekick with the rapier doing the helmet trampling as The People.
…although their headgear makes me doubt my theory a bit. Pretty sure Marianne usually has a hat more like the one of the woman on the left, and her current helmet looks rather more Spanish Conquistador than French revolutionary.
Well, it’s a possible theory anyway, thanks! Modern Marianne cosplayers I have seen have had a sort of cloth head scarf on, though, like this.
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