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Basic Important Law of Writing;

If/When you put minorities in it (in your stories, your world building, your character roster), you need to make sure you keep it BALANCED

If you make the majority of your minority characters in the villain/antagonist slot and not a single one in the heros/protagonist slot (or for that matter, making it that there are more villain minority characters than there are ones that are heros), then there’s a very big problem.

You’re making a message about minorities that should not be; that they are not the good guys, that they are and always will be the thugs/thieves/villains that the irl world so often tries to unfairly portray them in. <- that message there, is not right in the slightest. It is a big slap to the face for a huge potential amount of your reader base.

If the only major female/LGBTA+/POC/disabled characters in your world/story are the ones which are the bad guys, that is not the least bit right.

It’s not even not that hard to fix if you catch it soon enough; simply either add some protagonists/heros which are of the same minority or change some of your existing protagonists into characters of minority (making it that you may not need to change the villains/antagonists at all), or change the villains/antagonists so that they are no longer a minority character. Populate your world with ordinary civilians / background characters which are of the minority. Minority does not mean they don’t exist.

If you think it’s too hard to balance out your use of minorities in your literature, then you are no longer writing properly. I won’t necessarily say your biased or homophobic/albiest/racist for not fixing such errors (though it may not hurt to assess your existing worldview on the matter), but I will however say that you’re being very sloppy/lazy in very a bad way for your writing. To do that is a great disservice to your writing skills as well as your story/world in question if you ignore such a writing problem/challenge.

Be aware of your writing, it will benefit from it.

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The Amazons’ New Clothes

Zack Snyder caused an Amazonian uproar on social media when he started sharing pictures of Amazons from Justice League in leather bikinis.

This abrupt change of direction is a shock and these outfits look like generic barbarian women from a game of Dungeons and Dragons. They completely lack the unique flavor of the Greco-Roman-inspired armor ensembles that Lindy Hemming put so much thought and historical research into creating for Wonder Woman. The Wonder Woman designs received acclaim from fans and costume fanatics alike. They were clearly inspired by the Amazon’s origins in the Mediterranean and were feminine but very functional. Why mess with perfection?

Oh, right. The all-male team of directors and executive directors wanted women to fight in bikinis.

Wonder Woman began filming in 2015, the year before Justice League started filming in 2016. The Amazons’  design was finalized and most of the costumes completed while Justice League was still in pre-production. That means that there were discussions about what the Amazons should wear into battle in Justice League and the epic designs from Wonder Woman were rejected in favor of leather bikinis. Let that sink in. They rejected already finished costumes to redesign and remake the armor so that more skin would be showing.

Just put Patty Jenkins in charge of the whole DCEU.

Amen.

For the love of basic logic, give the women proper armour. JFC.

The WW Amazons’ outfits were based on ACTUAL ancient military armour, right down to the way the breastplates are made. 

The short skirts aren’t miniskirts, they’re based on pteruges, an actual part of Roman military clothing. They’re short so as to not get tangled and impede movement during a fight.

See how similar the outfits in Troy are to the Amazons’ clothing in Wonder Woman?

That’s ‘cause in both cases the clothing was designed to resemble actual ancient military clothing. Their purpose is to keep you alive, not to make you look fashionable.

The outfits in Wonder Woman were so fucking cool. They even had a metal piece over the left breast as a nod to real life mythology about the Amazons.

WE’RE TIRED OF MALE FANTASY BIKINI ARMOUR BS FOR WOMEN. YOU WANT THAT JUST START DIRECTING A PORNO INSTEAD OF A MOVIE. These are women trained for battle from the romantic time of the greeks, not a bs post apocalypse 90s movie where the woman is a sexual icon/object and hence is forced into a leather bathing suit.

It’s ugly, it’s tiresome, it’s stupid. We’re not here for utterly stupid skin exposure. We don’t want ugly ass leather bikinis, we don’t need leather bikinis. What we truly want/need is PROPER FUCKING ARMOUR FOR OUR FEMALE FIGHTERS FOR PEATSAKE. Let the Leather Bikini look die already.