Way too much sexual reference

Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel BL:TPS Discussion
#70

That’s definitely it for me with Krieg. His voice and his dialogue make him attractive as hell, and the abs just complement the picture. Sexual stereotypes are everywhere, but people are beautiful because you fall in love with them; it’s not the other way around. I think Janey’s sexuality in the Pre-Sequel actually captures something of that, and it’s developed really wonderfully in Tales from the Borderlands.

I don’t think either women or men’s bodies are inherently sexualised because they have their tops off. Without being too personal, the times I usually see women’s bodies are either in swimming pool changing rooms (not usually sexy places, just businesslike) and when they’re breastfeeding - again, not sexual, just normal, though sometimes treated with a troubling hostility.

The Pre-Sequel doesn’t seem overly sexualised to me and I don’t think it’s ideological, though discussion of it does often reveal our prejudices, so I would say it’s thought-provoking.

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#71

We desperately needed something to counterpoint @AMG_75’s Goliath splurge.

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#72

Bottom line, we are participating in their world, not ours.

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#73

SEXY and SEXUAL are two separate things. A man’s CHEST and a woman’s BREASTS are not the same. A mans’ chest may be SEXY, but a woman’s breasts are SEXUAL - get it? And it is accepted not only in modern society, which has nothing better to do than to obsess over stupid stuff like this, but has bee for time immortal. None of your activism is going to change that because there are other people involved - called men who do not and will never think that way, sorry.

As for your personal attack, you don’t know WHAT I am. You don’t know my sexuality, sexual preference or anything about me, so before you give advice ask questions - or better yet, find out if someone respects you that way before giving advice. Who gives advice to total strangers anyway. I’ll tell you this though - i am married, and one of us is female, so much for your “get to know some females” line. the females I know have the same reservation - or are you saying females have some kind of hive mind and all think alike?

And as for your last point -a woman can be objectified by her BREASTS. CAN BE. A man cannot be objectified by his CHEST - not in our current culture. maybe some alien culture will touch down and get all hot and horny over a man’s naked chest. maybe they will have some sort of weird biology that makes alien births out of a man’s chest and that’s all the aliens will describe when talking about a man’s attributes. but that hasn’t happened and a man without a shirt, in today’s society is just some dude without a shirt. A woman is naked without a shirt because breasts are not chest. woman have breasts and those breasts are part of the sexual makeup of a woman, who is different from a man. Just because you cannot come to terms with that doesn’t make it any less true.

#74

No. I don’t get this at all. Please explain further. To be biologically accurate, women have breasts to feed their children. We don’t actually need them to have sex.

There’s a serious contradiction in these two points.

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#75

Well, that totally depends on the situation and the observer.
A male doctor could surely see a naked woman, without sexual objectification of her body.
Sure, treating her as his patient is objectification in some way, but more in the sense of keeping a professional distance.

Also, a man with no shirt is considered ‘naked’ to a certain degree. Try walking into a fancy restaurant that way, you’ll see what I mean. :wink:

Also, just to be on topic, I’m with Giu on this one:

I fail to see overly sexualized characters/situations in the Borderlands franchise.
Sure, there’s a lot of Innuendo-based humor and so on. But that’s ‘harmless’ adult fun, after all these aren’t really games meant for kids, so there’s gotta be some room for that.

Basically, if Borderlands has too much sexual references/content, then the Witcher Series needs therapy. :grin: (Just kidding here, those are great games.)

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#76

Just seeing a naked body, as a doctor… is not objectification. It is the inference of beliefs behind what you see. And we aren’t talking about pure nakedness. We are talking about what the LARGER SOCIETY views as SEXUAL. A man with no shirt on is not “sexual” or lets put it more correctly to the point - pornographic. that is referred only to women - and not in a doctors office (that’s just a nonsensical comparison).

And there is a difference between action and porn. When people go to see even the most violent of action movies, they are not expecting to to explicit porno scenes. They expect heads blown off and that’s ADULT (actually Borderlands is MATURE entertainment, not ADULT, which infers XXX ratings). Just because there is violence in the game doesn’t mean “all bets are off - lets go pornographic too!”.

#77

Goliaths are innuendo gold.

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#78

“Satisfy me!”

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#79

So.

Calling another users point of view moronic violates Forum Policy.

We’re sorry for this interruption. Please continue your regularly scheduled debating.

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#80

I must have missed the pornography area of the Pre-Sequel… someone direct me, quickly!

#81

Post videos too!

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#82

“Time for face love!”

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#83

What about the rest of my post? And Ill say publicly here that I honestly meant the statement, was not trying to call a person that on the sly.

In any case, Im done here. Nobody has shown any difference, and now there is a mod in the topic who isn’t as reserved in opinion as I am. The will be no further free discussion and I made my points already and stand by them, so peace and good talk. G o ahead and lock it, Giuvito - after someone says something conflicting to my point of course, I know that’s where it’s going, right?

#84

Why would I lock the thread?

The only person violating policy is you.

I didn’t take issue with your stance, you’re the only one saying that users are using moronic arguments.

Do not play the martyr, friend. You violated a rule and were flagged, feel free to continue, insult free.

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#85

I think… I think I may start a ‘Borderlands innuendo thread’ to stop this derail. What do you reckon?

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#86

I don’t think there is anyone here in the forums who objects to the mature content of the BL franchise. If they did, I think they would go back to playing minecraft.

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#87

i dont want to argue with you, as you are a mod and who knows when you are going to act like a mod or a user…

But saying I “violate the rules” - well technically yes (and check my post count, I’m not exactly an old user here). I acknowledged that. But you took sides AND you hid my entire post even though only one sentence in the post violated the rules. So what do you think Im going to think? I also told you that it was not my intention to call anyone anything (which I didn’t and was referring to the statement. You gave me an official warning instead of just telling me I shouldn’t do that and allowing me to edit it out, or edit out THE SENTENCE yourself. All this after you jumped in the discussion to disagree with me.

So yeah, I fully expect someone to post something that diametrically opposes what I said. Something “brilliant” and then at that point you to lock it down.

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#89

If you have issue with moderator decisions, feel free to PM them rather than dragging it out on the forum.