I looked. I actually don't see that art pushing many of the fantasy art sex trope buttons: 1. Wearing what looks like not-outrageous closes. 2. There is no obv

I looked. I actually don't see that art pushing many of the fantasy art sex trope buttons: 1. Wearing what looks like not-outrageous closes. 2. There is no obvious cleavage. 3. There is no willing-come-hither smile at the PoV 4. Indeed, they are ignoring the PoV. Look, that whole Male-Gaze thing is not about erasing all aspects of feminine form in art. That'd actually be a worse outcome if our goal is better and fairer representation. It's about pointing out that Cindy from FFXV is a pretty manipulative and somewhat denigrating trope in fantasy art. Think about how many _male_ body types have become acceptable in fantasy art over time. Old men, fat men, emaciated men, short men, slouchy men, skinny men. We're getting progressively more comfortable with men of color in fantasy art as well (although still a long way to go here in many ways). Healthy or sick, brown or pale, native or imperialist, writers find a way to make identifiable and enjoyable protagonists out of a lot of male archetypes, and for what it's worth most of that is great. But when it comes to women, we see WAY fewer allowable templates and they tend to skew towards what the male consensus finds desirable. When we really sit down and see what's fair game for these genders, obviously that's not terribly fair. That's the principle complaint people are trying to redress. By locking every female archetype to what a 25-year old man fantasizes about, we create fewer opportunities for a real and textured world and create a sensation of isolation, distance and difference among those ignored groups.