Talk:Rachnera Arachnera/@comment-27176429-20160627212919

I hate when people who don't like Monster Musume (these people also don't seem to like much of anything) try to "improve" the character designs and they just take out all the sexiness and cuteness and just make them generic scary/ugly monsters. They probably think it's more "progressive". They entirely miss the point. Some people seem to think that the simple existence of erotic media is offensive. They want to take all sexiness out of everything. (female sexiness, that is. They are never offended by sexy men. They just hate sexy women.)

What's so offensive about fictional sexy girls? I hate the idea that sexualized=objectified. It's not automatically the same thing. More often than not it isn't and there are many kinds of objectification that are distinctly non sexual, and real sexual objectification is in my opinion, more like illegal sex trafficking, sex slavery, those poor kids put in child pagents by their creepy parents and made to wear creepy sexualized outfits, ect. Stuff that actually treats REAL PEOPLE as objects without  their own agency. Sexy fictional characters are such a non issue, but you'll never see the people who complain about them complain about real sexual objectification, because all they care about is demonizing anything that they can imagine straight men might enjoy,  but they would never dare put in any real effort by advocating for people actually being objectified because it's too hard. Most adults experience some form of sexual attraction and it's ridiculous that it's treated as some sort of character flaw. It's a necessary thing to propagate the species.

I'm just posting this here because I was reminded when I was looking at a blog, which was really funny at first, about bad character designs. It showed a lot of shitty cg characters from low budget children's shows and most of the designs were pretty horrendous. But then they had a picture of Rachnera and they were complaining about how her but is separate from her spider body which they thought looked weird, which I somewhat agree with, though it doesn't bother me that much.But when they drew a redesign to "fix" her, and all they did was make her a stereotypically ugly monster. The whole point is that she's sexy. Why didn't they just make the transition from her butt to her spider body more smooth, but keep her sexy? That would be "fixing" what they thought was a bad design choice while still keeping the spirit of the franchise. It seems all they really wanted to do after all was to erase the character's sexuality. I hate that sort of attitude it's so counter productive and it seems like such a miserable way to look at things. Sorry for the long rant; that stuff just really gets under my skin (probably way more than it reasonably should) and I felt the need to vent.