throw-away-opinions:

thespectacularspider-girl:

Momo is a student hero in the show BNHA.   Her hero outfit looks like this:

People are saying that her costume is sexualized and because she’s a 15/16 year old in the show, that her wearing such an outfit is wrong.  In particular, most people seem to have issue with the breast window, which is frequently covered up in redesigns.

The thing is, Momo’s superpower is called “Creation”.  She can create non-living matter from her skin.  And that’s fine for a lot of cases, but in the series we’ve seen what happens when she tries to create something when she’s wearing clothes and requires more skin surface area than she’s showing.  It shreds her clothes.

So we have the quirk justifying the outfit.  But my real issue is the assumption that because Momo is wearing that costume, it’s sexual.  

Momo is 15 years old.  Yes.  And 15 year olds wear swimsuits, which is effectively what the outfit is.  It’s not even a particularly risque swimsuit.  But because Momo’s a girl and has a large bust, it’s automatically sexual.

What kind of logic is this?  That because a 15 year old wears an outfit it’s automatically sexual?  Especially when Momo is shown not to be flirtatious, titillating or overtly sexual at all.

The kind of logic being used to shame the creator for Momo is the same logic used to enforced extremely strict dress codes on women and ban breastfeeding in public areas.  

There’s nothing wrong with Momo’s outfit.  And the people who freak out about sexuality are the ones projecting that outlook on to her and everyone else.  They look at Momo and see sexualization, so everyone else must be sexualizing her too.  

The hilarious thing about all this is that the people complaining about Momo are hypocrites.  Not only are they projecting their own sexualiation of the character on to others, they’re not even consistent.  If Momo was a man, they’d have no problem with the outfit and they’d probably ship the hell out of him with other male characters, just like Kirishima, a male hero who wears nothing above the waist.

In fact we know what the outfit looks like on a male character and it isn’t bad at all. 

The entire premise behind their argument is that Momo is a girl and therefore she should be ashamed of her breasts and body and cover it up because THEY are too titilated by it.  Which is the same argument made by Conservative Christian Right Wingers of the 90′s.

The thing that really fucks me up about this is how it’s the exact same logic used by localizers to butcher anime and video games. This twisted puritanical belief that acknowledging that people below a certain age have midriffs or breasts is somehow revolting, degenerate perversion of the highest level has been seen way too often. But the same mindset that drives these people to lose their shit over fictional teenagers dressed with a bit of skin showing is the same brand of insane kool-aid that whinges incessantly about high school dress codes, champions slut walks, praises the hijab and niqab at the same times, and occasionally outright advocates for pedophiles “Minor attracted persons”…

It really shouldn’t be so common to see such ridiculous prudish bullshit being paraded around like legitimate arguments, but tumblr is the hellsite for a reason.