"Overly sexualized female villains...For me, it seems that villains like that are often vampire/fae/old goddess, which to me is more a reference to the way sexuality was looked at more openly in cultures prior to the Jeudeo-Christian domination."
I wasn't referring to the villains that come from a culture or era where sexuality is okay per se, though I do feel like that's been done to death and back again. And even IF the villain happens to come from one of those backgrounds... it's still portraying sexuality as something that only the bad guys do.
What I'm actually talking about are more modern set stories with female antagonists. Male antagonists are FAR less sexualized than female. How many times have you seen a female villain smack the male hero around and act threatening in a physical sense WITHOUT wearing latex, leather or some other form of impractically tight clothing. Using Jay and Silent Bob as a case in point, seeing as Kevin Smith made a total mockery of this particular trope, the three female thieves are incredibly sexual whereas their more moral teammate is scene as a bit more wholesome... unless you count Jay's fantasies about her. *grins*
Anyway, the point is that sex is being equated with deviance and as something that's "bad", which actually DOES play into the religious extremist view quite heavily. The good girls only act sexual when it's with their leading man, the bad girls act sexual all the time. Even the female leads that ARE sexualized are done so in a way that makes them look like a bad girl with a heart of gold, so to speak.
I'm not saying remove the sexiness, not by any means. But damn it all... do it RIGHT. You can be sexy and fuck like mad and be on the good side.
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I wasn't referring to the villains that come from a culture or era where sexuality is okay per se, though I do feel like that's been done to death and back again. And even IF the villain happens to come from one of those backgrounds... it's still portraying sexuality as something that only the bad guys do.
What I'm actually talking about are more modern set stories with female antagonists. Male antagonists are FAR less sexualized than female. How many times have you seen a female villain smack the male hero around and act threatening in a physical sense WITHOUT wearing latex, leather or some other form of impractically tight clothing. Using Jay and Silent Bob as a case in point, seeing as Kevin Smith made a total mockery of this particular trope, the three female thieves are incredibly sexual whereas their more moral teammate is scene as a bit more wholesome... unless you count Jay's fantasies about her. *grins*
Anyway, the point is that sex is being equated with deviance and as something that's "bad", which actually DOES play into the religious extremist view quite heavily. The good girls only act sexual when it's with their leading man, the bad girls act sexual all the time. Even the female leads that ARE sexualized are done so in a way that makes them look like a bad girl with a heart of gold, so to speak.
I'm not saying remove the sexiness, not by any means. But damn it all... do it RIGHT. You can be sexy and fuck like mad and be on the good side.