I don't think the point is that other sexualised designs aren't being complained about. It's just disappointing that in a thread full of stylised depictions of women, a tall muscular one is being called out. The amazon is obviously sexualised, I don't think anyone is going to dispute that, but I don't think it's a coincidence that the grossed out reactions tend to be reserved for women whose shapes don't confirm to the idealised idea of "feminine". We apparently accept all sorts of abstractions of features that society deems attractive in women, but if you take them in opposite ways, people seem more likely to complain. It's hard to not connect the dots between this and the general disdain that taller, heavier, or more muscular women experience in real life. (For instance, earlier this week a lady was forced to cover up by an airline company because her curvier shape made her be perceived as inherently more lewd, in spite of wearing a regular looking summer outfit.) What it also does, is make it seem like a round-about discussion about attractiveness, which is what this thread about badasses is not about.
This has been an interesting series of posts from you and I've liked reading them. There's definitely something there. This character seems to be at some kind of intersection of criticisms.
But yeah VVV
I don't think anybody's explicitly brought up attractiveness as a counterpoint, nearly so much as the alien proportions.
^^^yes
The element of the body alone is so strong and somehow mixed up in things. By "the body", I mean the off-putting potential of the rippling muscled body. It's perfectly common for people to find the bodies of world champion bodybuilders to be unattractive. A magnitude moreso for women bodybuilders tho, which i think leads back to the point to maybe a problem with large+objectified women characters.
In the amazon's case, there's the general potential "grossness" of the over-muscled body (and way more with a woman. Way way more.), and the unabashed sexualization (as sexist as anything mainstream that comes to mind.) which is pretty much inextricable from the whole thing. I think it's hard to pick apart, but maybe there is something deeper in there.
As earthpainting points out, maybe these things clash in a manner that puts people off to amazon in a particular way. Importantly, I can't imagine someone creating this without knowing that it would cause disturbance, offense, amusement, titillation, etc among different people.
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But after all this i still have not the faintest idea of what shes like in the game lol. That might help. I imagine her as sort of laconic? Idk.