#tracergate

[birdsy-purplefishes]

My Random Thoughts On Tracer’s Butt Pose

Tracer’s old butt pose:

Boring.

She looks expressionless and uncomfortable in that stance and it looks artificial like she’s a weird sex doll.

Butt looks fuckin’ weird anyway.

The camera angle is like right on her ass which is really weird and creepy.

Tracer’s new butt pose:

Funny/playful/sassy posing and expression!

Butt is more accentuated which is still tacky and needless sexualization but it’s more natural looking.

Camera angle is more natural and no longer makes this viewer feel like a tiny pervert.

You might say that this pose is...CHEEKY!

Like they made it so it’s still sexualized and that’s (eyeroll) but at least she looks like she’s having some fun. It’s like she’s showing us her butt in a mocking way rather than having it look like someone else posed her like a doll. Obviously all fictional characters don’t have autonomy and it’s still somebody in an office who’s probably a dude deciding what she should do but at least this gives her the illusion of being a real person with a mind of her own, which is what good writing and good animation and character creation are supposed to do. I feel like she’s “real” in a way and that she’s really neat. I feel like the little kid in the first Overwatch trailer who thinks she’s awesome. When I saw her in that other pose I just felt vaguely uncomfortable.

It’s still kinda embarrassing that she’s wearing a bodysuit that looks so tight that you could probably see a mole through it and that none of the male characters seem to get the same treatment but like at least it kinda works with the idea that she’s fun and flashy and athletic. Like I wish Blizzard would grow up a bit faster but this is at least a baby step in the right direction.

[the-real-protar]

So thoughts on the new pose:

> It isn’t less sexualised. As small an issue as this one pose is, it is kind of baffling if Blizzard thinks it is. But it’s Blizzard. They’re trying bless they’re little cotton socks but these are the guys who said at Blizzcon 2014 that they wanted less sexualised female characters in OW - when the first two female characters they revealed where in skintight suits. I’m very happy that they’re at least trying to be conscious of the issue, so such a small thing I can let slide.

> It is a better pose. It’s still sexy, sure (literally based on a pin up pose) but it’s a bit more fun and dynamic, gives an impression of getting ready to zoom off. It may be that Blizzard don’t think this is less sexual and their entire goal was simply to make something a bit more in character

> It’s ridiculous that anyone thinks this is some deliberate middle finger to SJWs. Blizzard announced at Blizzcon 2014 that Overwatch was being made with diversity in mind, they made Zarya and Mei in response to complaints about the lack of female body diversity. But apparently they’re secret Gamergate allies and this has all been a long con. Whatever helps you sleep at night.

> So ultimately I defended the removal of the original pose because it was Blizzard’s right to take Tracer in a less sexualised direction, just as now it’s their right to keep her a little flirty. We still have Mei, Zarya, Pharah and Mercy on the less sexualised front. Variety is what’s important. 

[voicesbyzane]

>One guy thinks Tracer from overwatch is sexualized because she has a butt and makes a post about it on the forums >Blizzard removes character pose entirely

JUST

[adhdemilykaldwin]

Tbh I think people's reaction to Tracer's pose in the game was a bit much but it is nothing compared to the reaction from all the fuckboys now that they can't look at pixel booty and I think that's beautiful