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Does this make everyone's ass flatter or just Asterion's? I'm genuinely curious. Because I know he isn't the only one that's caked up.
Even then, if it's just Asterion and not other male characters, I don't know what to make of it. I don't think making an ass flatter is homophobic (although it certainly isn't ally behavior). But it might reveal some internalized homophobia. Maybe. Again, I'm not really sure.
If it were all male characters and none of the female characters I'd be more concerned about sexism than homophobia. But that's just me.
I assume just Asterion's given that's what the tweet suggests.
That's an interesting take, could you elaborate?
Obviously, given that the mod seems to be just Asterion, it's not a real concern. But if they were leaving women as they are (scantily clad, revealing outfits, etc) and de-sexualizing I'd be more concerned about why they feel it's okay to objectify women and not men.
But it seems like it's a moot point, anyway.
That's what I suspected you meant. I agree that it is (partially) irrelevant to the topic of this post, but still I think its interesting enough that I want to engage with it if you don't mind.
Sexualization is not intrinsically objectification. It can be but you'd have to make an assumption about their motivations for installing such a mod that I think is unrealistic in that case.
Further, keeping character's you find attractive sexy and de-sexing characters who you (think you) find unnattractive on your own local private play through seems like something a person would do for the sake of enhancing a private fantasy. It'd be that they are treating the game as at least partly an erotic experience would be my assumption that would be damaged for them if the sexualization of certain character hurts that experience for them.
Of course I should reiterate that I've not played the game. So I might be missing some context. I have played Skyrim loaded with, ah-hem... certain mods. And I know why I installed those, and it wasn't because I wanted to embrace objectification.