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[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I raise you Emperor Ferdinand I Armor, specifically it's Codpiece.

I'm just saying. Sexualized armor is very historical.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Doesn't make it and less ridiculous to try and be sexy in a situation where you need protection to prevent dying.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

True. But it keeps happening.

Be it two thousand years ago or 500 years ago. Sexy armor proves that humans haven't really changed.


Kings and generals don't really find themselves alone on the front lines. The armor is nearly ceremonial, no one is supposed to take a shot at the king. Even if the king were expected to visit the front lines.

As such, kings, princes and other nobles never had practical armor. It's all armor-fashion and status symbols (including sexualization, when said sexualization was in fashion).

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Do we have modern sexualized plate carriers? I know we have the cat-ear helmet bit, but how far can we go?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Dunno about personal armor but we have nekkid furry ladies on planes and tanks... humans keep being thirsty.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Something about humans relates sex and danger. We like having them together

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You might want to rephrase that. It would be very easy to misinterpret.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Ah, you mean danger cosplay. Yeah, ok. Even kinksters have safe words and things like safe, sane, and consensual.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I don't know, this is starting to sound like a separate discussion with separate issues, and as a result it feels like goalpost moving.

The issue with women's fantasy armour has long been that it exists for the Male Gaze, as a trope that is propagated by men for the purpose of titilizing men. It's objectifying the female form, and doing so in a way that does not include women in the discussion at all.

The second image, instead of being a continuation of that, just feels like fashion, and complaints about it land as "no one has ever cared about aesthetics in a suit of armour" which is a totally false take and indefensible platform.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Most mounted knights don't really need crotch protection. Their saddles had a kind of shields projecting up for that purpose. If they get dismounted in a melee, that might be a different situation, but even then, the codpiece will probably not be the weakest part of that armour.