laurenexbush
28.04.2021 7:09:17
This annoys me too. I'm pretty sure it's not a budgetary reason which made them specifically chose gendered language in their flavor text, so I'm going to say it was a deliberate design decision.
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This annoys me too. I'm pretty sure it's not a budgetary reason which made them specifically chose gendered language in their flavor text, so I'm going to say it was a deliberate design decision.
Honestly, I think the reason is the one that's pervasive in video gaming: the presumed audience is straight, male and wants to look at sexy girls. I can't really think of another reason why the bladesinger unit card has breasts almost the size of her skull. It's not like that's true to concept art or the models.
If CA is trying to pander to my carnal tastes, they're doing a horrendous job with it considering how low effort the models and designs are for most females.
Ethereal is an aesthetic based around the feeling of being extremely delicate and light in a way that seems not to be of this world.
This aesthetic can be described as very heavenly and light. Certain things it includes are angels, angel wings, lace, floral patterns, chandeliers, cathedrals, cathedral ceilings, etc.
Ethereal fashion usually includes, white lace, diamond jewelry, clear accessories, angel patterns, pale colors, white fur, drop earrings, pleated skirts, white mesh, etc.
Human association with metals goes a long way back in history. The ancient people viewed metals as mysterious materials found deep inside the earth and believed them to be full of spiritual powers and potential for creation as well as destruction.
Several ancient civilizations practiced the sciences of Alchemy and Astrology and related the different metals to specific planets. While Alchemy tries to understand the meaning of the metals and elements, Astrology is concerned with the interpretation of the zodiac and planets. The two were always considered to be related, and an understanding of one was thought to be helpful in understanding the other. As such, metallurgy and spiritual alchemy went hand in hand. The metals were believed to have a spiritual connection, and every metal carried a special significance. The alchemists believed that each element had a physical representation and also a philosophical meaning.
Let us take a look at the symbolic meaning of the seven metals of Lead, Tin, Iron, Gold, Mercury, Copper and Silver which are referred to as the ‘Metals of Antiquity’ as they are the metals around which different civilizations were founded.
You Would Have Me White (Tu me quieres blanca)
by Alfonsina Storni, translated by Rachel Benson [links]
Novelists are often rather hard on those seduced and betrayed girls who are bereft of heroic quality; without a transcendent purity of some degree to free them from rebuke and condescension, the girls choke in a tangle of weakness, sexuality, vanity, illusion, irresolution. 8
The Virgin , called “the good angel” in Pope and Pearson’s The Female Hero in American and British Literature , is always chaste, innocent and ignorant of wordly things. This naturally imposes strict limits on her mobility, knowledge and curiosity. She is passive and worshipped. The role of Virgin when it spills into the Mother role is life giving. The Virgin stereotype allows the female to always remain a girl, to never have to acknowledge her sexuality. She has the ability, due to her proximity to saintliness, to cleanse, heal and save. Though she possess not the sensuality of carnal knowledge, men adore her. As Ferguson notes, she brings life and she nurtures it. She is somewhat like Little Orphan Annie who never grows up, whose fairness and sweetness are revered by all. She is safe.
This poem provides a very clear example in literature of what a woman feels her role should be, imposed by a male dominated society. She describes how she “should” be, how “he” would have her be; pure, chaste, ignorant of the real world. Through the use of “lily white” images, we understand the impossibility of such a constricting role. Man is described as partaking of all life’s experiences, of action, of tasting the bitter and the sweet. The true feelings of the poet concerning these restrictions on her total being are revealed when whe declares that men, for all the “life” they have tasted, will never have the soul of a woman, can never confine the soul of a woman to such smallness. Men have lost their soul in all their activity.
Tú Me Quieres Blanca
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Even before our students reach a literary reading level, they are bombarded with sexist images from the pages of their textbooks and primers. An analysis was done by a group of researchers, “Women in Words and Images,” with the expressed aim of eliminatiny sex-role stereotyping in school readers. This analysis, Dick and Jane as Victims ( Sex Stereotyping in Children’s Readers ), points out the enormous lacuna between boys and girls in respect to their potential as men and women. The restraints placed on girls and women are vividly depicted in most primers. what comes through so often is the message of what women/men should and shouldn’t be.