Will Final Fantasy XV's Cid be a Lady?

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The design is perfectly fine. I've seen women with more cleaveage IRL. Cidney having her mammaries hanging out isn't sexist. All that matters to me is how the character will be written. Hopefully, she'll be a relatively strong willed female character.

I think the difference between whether the thing is sexist or not hinges on the fact that those women with super cleavage you know IRL chose to be that way. Cidney (I'm not calling her Cindy, smurf the lot of you if you even think about correcting me) was DESIGNED by men to look the way she does. And it wouldn't be a thing at all if past Cids, all of which have been male, had been sexualized. If there'd been even one clear example of it.

I do agree that one of the ways we could deal with this situation is to embrace the character's other traits that don't sexualize her and as an audience turn her into something positive, but that doesn't change the fact that the designers at SE made some pretty troutty decisions with the visual designs for this character which are so clearly sexist that I'm not sure why this is a debate at all. Anyone who doesn't see it without having to be told, isn't going to see it after being told. Because it's pretty smurfing blatant. I mean, really.

Her character design is better than most of the the things SE has crapped out, regardless of gender.

Also, the word sexist means pertaining, involving, or fostering sexism. Which this character design does none of. So no, it's not sexist.

I'm going to start charging people a dollar every time they use the "I see hyper sexualized women all the time therefore this is okay" argument. It's my "get rich quick" scheme.

In what world does having cleavage equate to being hyper sexualized?

Well, I'm convinced.

I mean, how many of us have actually seen a womans in real life?

Quite a many.

So if you say it's totally normal for them to go to work every day in a low cut top and hot pants, what reason would I have to doubt you?

None.