Using an example of a sport where balance (men have the advantage due to typically lower centre of gravity) and strength (men have the advantage here too) is a nice try.

Even better when a large part of the argument against male dominance had been focused more on team sports and you deliberately chose an individual sport to "counter" the claims.

Nice try, yourself.

Using an example of a sport where balance (men have the advantage due to typically lower centre of gravity) and strength (men have the advantage here too) is a nice try.

Even better when a large part of the argument against male dominance had been focused more on team sports and you deliberately chose an individual sport to "counter" the claims.

Nice try, yourself.

I'm sorry. I really am. Looking back on this thread I regret opening it because I feel like there's a lot of hostility in some of the replies. I should have opening the thread while choosing my words more carefully or not at all.

I would not have been bothered by the new walking animation if the animation was the same from the beginning. But it was changed to a more modest walk, so when it was reverted (as some say to the "old" walk) the change became very noticeable and that much more jarring.

I have no problems with the suits accentuating the female figure, I kind of like it in a future-spacey kind of way. The Caldari medium does this and the Gallante suits really do this and I like it. Heck, I play mostly a Dragonfly Scout (despite Scouts doing poorly right now) because I think it DOES look sexy.

But if, let's say, the suits didn't reflect this, if they were more egalitarian and androgynous at the beginning in beta up to now, and then one day you realize that "hey! this has been changed to a skin tight suit over night!" then it would be very noticeable and people would get upset. This is how I felt about the walking animation. Not that I was upset to the point of crying sexism but it did feel like a step backwards for CCP. If CCP wants to keep this new animation then I will get used to it, I like Dust enough to deal with it.

Again, had the animation been like this from the beginning I would not have said anything because that is how the game goes. Like Bayonetta for example, I don't mind playing that game at all because Bayonetta is like that from the beginning. I think she's cool and pretty BA. She's a caricature but that's just who she is and I don't see sexism in her because that's how she was developed from the beginning (albeit the game is kind of sexist).

Anyways, I'm sorry for getting people upset and I guess it's time for me to take a break from the forums for awhile. I really don't want to be known as the one who started "that" argument, so again, I apologize. and, well, I guess I'll just play the game and shut up about it. Sorry again to everyone.

Not sure about you but I rarely see any warbarge time (maybe a second or two but nothing fashion show worthy). So the only time I get to see my merc walk is in the privacy of my merc HQ - at which point, does it really matter if she has a smexy walk?