ikercito opened this issue on Feb 09, 2005 ยท 33 posts
XENOPHONZ posted Thu, 10 February 2005 at 5:54 PM
This creature would scare the living daylights out of you if she ever actually walked across your path.
I've met her. Many times. Photographed her in my studio, even. She hasn't scared me yet.
*You are unfairly switching the context and definition of the objectors. The objection I have, and others have stated or hinted at (and let them speak for themselves), is this, in essence: the V3 attempted aesthetic or style is solely concerned with wired human perceptions of attractiveness driven by sex, such as symmetry, firmness of flesh, high cheek bones, wide-apart large eyes, puckered full lips, that 'locked-in' curve at the hip, and large breasts.
There is nothing wrong with tapping into this per se.
However, the V-aesthetic (as I will call it) is exploitive and manipulative of it. There is no letup. There is no deviation. There is no moderation. There is no tolerance for almost. There is an ever increasing concentration of this power, until it's..."Enough already."*
V3 sells well. So do attractive characters based upon her.
"Ordinary" characters tend to not sell well.
Check out the top-sellers in the MP.
shrug
Take your pick.
If I were a merchant, then I'd go for the mercenary solution.
As for the rest, I repeat myself: one cannot argue with personal taste.
In my opinion, the V-aesthetic is not about true human beauty and sexuality, in which we see each other as participating in the Form of Beauty; it is about stimulus-response.
This is......fine.
Beauty is as I see it. Stimulating or not.
Based upon the sales figures, I strongly suspect that I share the majority point of view. By a wide margin.