Brazilian artist made brics as girl and a few users said this was porn and other that it was nazi propaganda for the russia girl to be blonde

Are young cartoon women sexualized by being very attractive.

did you expect anything else?

I hate that dumbass volcel joke, it wasn’t funny in 2017 and it’s still not funny. Just feels like this weird ass wave of conservatism is coming out of nowhere and now we’ve gone from sex liberation to “being attracted to anything makes you a gooner”

Meanwhile, I keep trying to get my “Hexbear slur filter suppresses queer expression” take to become a rousing struggle session

I make this one a lot and am usually reminded that there are many queer ace people. Which is true but also “sex” or “horny” is something different to everyone and has some serious differences across cultures as well, to the point that what one person or group might consider “sex” or “horny” can be and often is entirely different to others. So the whole “no horny” shit is exactly what leads to this image being a struggle session in the first place. Is the image more sexualized than it could be? Yeah sure. Is that an appropriate artistic and stylistic choice that can add value to it? I think so. Are we missing out on similar content that could be considered questionable because of an intense fear of even acknowledging sexuality on Hexbear? Yeah definitely. Is that a problem? Honestly it’s up to the community to decide.

I think a “no sexbear” rule makes total sense for many reasons and it should definitely continue to be a strong rule, but I also think that “attacking anyone for being remotely horny in literally any capacity” is also extremely problematic and causes a lot of issues too, basically.

It’s not a fight worth fighting though, there are other queer left kink friendly spaces online that can fill the gap. At least that’s what I’m told. I’ve never found any.

Outdoor cats

PleasePleasePleasePleasePleasePleasePlease

Me too.

and an average woman peered over your shoulder, I think they would think ‘oh, it’s a gross little horny weaboo’. Perhaps take it a step further, what if it was your screensaver, or a poster in your room? People would assume the worst, because images like this are generally created and consumed in such a way.

Speaking from a handful of personal experiences — not that I am an average woman — I reckon that my first thought would probably be, “…Sorry— Sorry, BRICS…? As in the intergovernmental organization…? That BRICS, personified in yonder picture perhaps a bit problematically, as women in an anime-esque style that evokes a non-binary lesbian who knows what they like yet also aims to cater to the virality-inducing gaze of terminally online cishet male weebs? My eyes do not deceive me, do they? What a peculiar thing! kininarimasu.mp4”

And thus — should the angels bestow upon me the strength to do so — I would ask that person, “Hey, your phone’s lock screen— that’s, that’s BRICS as in the intergovernmental organization, right?”

Should they respond, “Huh? Oh, uh, maybe.” or alternatively, “I don’t… I don’t know what that is, sorry?” or even, “No.”

—Then the conversation is terminated.

Should they respond, “Yup: Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.”

—Then follow up with, “Do you have any particular thoughts on those countries, their governments, about BRICS or anything like that?”

Should they respond, “No, not really.” or alternatively, “Dae CCP 1984 and also Putler bad?” or even, “Brazilian chicks are soooo hot.”

—Then the conversation is terminated.

Should they respond instead, “I don’t like to talk about politics with strangers.”

—Then make a mental note that this might be an interesting person, or might be a nincompoop. Further investigation required.

And lastly, should they respond instead, “Hey BRICS is helping dedollarize the world isn’t it, and NATO provoked that war, too. Indeed, as the situation in Ukraine brings us closer to a Third World War, I am reminded of the wise words of Chairman Mao in his 1957 essay On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the Peo—”

—“Marry me.” would be my interruption.

At the end of the day, they are intended to be attractive. The artist has made a choice to give them all conventionally attractive features in the face and body, that particularly cater to a western male gaze. That is all that can be said for it. Alright, the creator was NB or lesbian or something… but they have something to gain from things going viral, and it is pretty clear what qualities of this post drive its engagement.

Their investment in designing them like this is because they’re a lesbian who’s attracted to women, they made it horny because it’s horny and that’s ok actually. Well, I kind of agree personifying nation states in a horny way is weird. But it’s the personification of a nation state part and not the horny part that’s the issue there. I must emerge from hibernation sooner than I thought.

You were never wrong that it’s horny tbh. It is. And the strong defence of it that some have is because they enjoy that it is a safe level of horny while not being willing to admit that.

the only one of these characters seeming anything-slighly-less than totally rail-thin body type by proportion to height being South Africa definitely has some things going on tbh (and weirdly only in the torso down, the character’s neck is still rail thin). and even aside from that they’re still all pretty uniformly hyper-conventionally-beautified in the ways that has been being criticized in online art as uninspired if not problematic, for over a decade. There was a whole thing of that same goddamn face style and structure in every “young pretty female” portrait that was all anyone was drawing online for the longest time. I forget if it had a name.

and having pretty young women personified as nations in of itself has a whole lot of really messy history with nationalism and patriarchy’s relationship that it as a whole makes me uneasy. That said this is a profoundly unimportant thing, some random twitter sometimes-porn-sometimes-not-porn artist; I’m almost mad I spent the time and effort to type this.

Oh shit dialectics

Women are not safe for work.

Using it as a reveal rather than as an actual nsfw tag

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RARE EMOJI to be saving in my quickdraw rolodex

also the animation cycle looks like an fighting stance of the sickest character in a digitized-actor fighting game like mortal kombat