EClark1894 opened this issue on Apr 16, 2014 · 474 posts
moriador posted Wed, 16 April 2014 at 2:27 PM
Quote - (taking off my mod hat for a moment):
The notion that men don't have as many clothing options as women is a complete falacy. There are numerous multi-million dollar fashion designers that only design for men. Magazines that are tailored exclusively to men's fashion, all-male fashion shows, etc.
And that's just for modern-day wear. Add to it 6,000+ years of clothing from every known culture in the world.
Add again all the sci-fi and fantasy designs seen in video games and films.
The options are pretty much endless for potential male clothing.
I think it mostly boils down to what Poser (and DS) is primarily used for - female pin-ups and fantasy (and I'm not talking about the swords and dragons kind).
Combine that with the demasculinization of men today, where they are expected to be hairless, androgynous whelps who couldn't fight their way out of a wet paper bag with a map and written directions.
Even the character sets available for men in the MPs, the majority of them, are more feminine than masculine.
And everything Moriador said in her first post.
It's pathetic that even today in our "modern" open-minded society (another complete falacy) a man can't openly appreciate the beauty and strength of another man without having a label slapped on him.
~Shane
+1
I suspect that a lot of the male character sets in the MP are made by women, many of whom maybe prefer that kind of adrogyny. Plus, I understand that texturing a product with body hair, especially if the texture set you're using is of a shaved human, requires more work. Certainly there are textures with body hair, but I guess not all that many, as you see the same chest hair on multiple characters.
But there has definitely been a trend toward more adolescent (hairless, beardless, slender/soft) looking males in fashion, advertising, and many movies.
Maybe it's the cult of youth showing up for both sexes. The ideal person, apparently, looks 14.
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