Bogwitch

I don’t have any exact criteria of what “reasonable armor” is. That’s on purpose. There’s obviously a lot of silly and eye-rolly stuff out there but it’s important to question your dealbreakers; because we’re talking about imagination, we’re looking at things that are meant to be fun, and cathartic, fantastical and engaging. These things should be on a spectrum of appreciation.

What am I saying here? I dunno, something like, “don’t be cynical, try to like things, then when you’re discerning it’s so much richer.” Does that make sense?

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Yes.  So much sense.

Historical authenticity isn’t at stake here. Empowerment and fantastical believability is, and that’s going to be subjective as hell. For me (and for, I presume, a large majority of artists), identifiability is still going to be important, which is why a lot of these women probably aren’t going to be wearing helmets. It’s simply going to be harder to think “wow, this chick is badass, I could be her” if every picture is just some big unisex walking tank.

 I like to think we can all come together on agreeing that a certain amount of popular armor design is pretty eye-rolly and I’m just interested in looking around for interesting and engaging designs that challenge that.

This blog - at least for me - is about appreciation.

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This is cool because he actually considers the issue at hand with empathy for the female perspective without making a huge deal of it.  Do you even know how rare?