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I clicked on it, had a little chuckle, and haven't thought about it again until now.

Don't care.

Right, so here's the image in question. I'm sorry, but is this really that sexualized? Their body proportions seem pretty normal to me, they're dressed in totally normal clothes, and the artist is a Brazilian woman who seems to have leftist views. Obviously it's a good idea not to have creepy shit on the site, but you don't want to go too far the other way and wind up as a "leftist" version of a hectoring conservative screaming that women should cover themselves up.

Yes it was problematic. This can only be resolved by Hexbear adopting the Wahabist Interpretation of Sharia and banning all depictions of women who are not modestly dressed in a niqab.

Lol starting a struggle session on a harmless drawing made for fun.

whole lotta people in this thread who could do with shutting the fuck up and doing literally anything else with their day

this wasn't even an "event", it was two funny drawings

i...don't really see what was horny about it? i especially don't see what aspect of it qualifies as "needless sexualization", nor can i really agree that they have ridiculous proportions. they just look like cute, drawn women.

sure, the reaction was a little more :bottom-speak: than i'd prefer but i can't find any real issue with the art itself from a horny perspective.

why the hell do people think brics is a leftist organization. 1/5 countries is leftist. it's arguably not even an organization, it's just five countries that hold an economic diplomatic summit because 20 years ago a goldman sachs economist identified them as growth economies for the purpose of selling speculative investment packages to americans.

This is the weirdest anime struggle session yet, I think.

i'm gonna make some draw some BRIC anime men. and then I'm gonna draw some BRIC anime fursonas. and then I'm gonna draw some BRIC anime nonbinary comrades. That way everyone gets a little (non exploitative, purely fictional) sex positivity.

ah shit, I forgot that I can't draw. Well. Back to the drawing board.

It’s needless sexualisation and the body proportions on them are all ridiculous.

What? I see people with similar proportions to those every day. Touch grass.

It doesn't strike me as at all sexualized. It's a perfectly normal drawing. I really can't imagine anyone getting creeped out by it.

Tbh it strikes me as being on the puritanical side, like let's not get all r/socialism catgirl fiasco in here.

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My thoughts are that it is always cringe to anthropomorphize nation-states. Even in an entirely innocent context with no sexualization intended, which seems like the case here.

In ten years time I will have followed this train of thought to it's logical conclusion and become a literal iconoclast, demanding that all art be destroyed because it warps clear-thinking. A fed on a splinter site of a splinter site of a splinter site will call me based just before I attempt to destroy the National Gallery of Art.

Unless it's soviet propaganda. Then I'm fine with it.

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I'll only say people like you would have a heart attack if you visited Rio de Janeiro in the summer.

Touch some grass sand for once.

There was nothing wrong with the post or the art, but some of the comments might have been overly thirsty.

i can't say i've given much investigation to the matter, and my understanding of Mao tells me that i therefore should not comment upon it. i also understand that women hold up half the sky.

As someone who doesnt watch much anime I didnt find the art style to be anime at all

This is just the Hexbear Version of the 201...6 (?) r/socialism political catgirl comics posting struggle session, isn't it?

It's unfortunately almost unavoidable that such stuff comes up due to the fact that be it if a place is 95% heterosexual liberals or 70% LGBT+ communists, it's still allosexuals going :awooga: at things that pander to sexuality.

hey, at least it has revealed this image to me

It's not even a left-aligned issue.

I don't get the politics of it.

Do people think BRICS is leftist or something?

I didn't notice too many overtly horny comments, but to the extent that there were, that seems like part of the joke. Like "oh man, leftists are going to get super horny about this because politics!" I appreciate that this site keeps a tight lid on the horny, but it feels like there's enough context here to be able to play with the irony of this kind of thing without being overtly problematic. Individual comments should still be judged on their own, but I don't see what's wrong with the overall bit in principle.

don't forgot it was also followed up with an epic body shaming post

post about how chuds are unlikable and unfuckable? removed for body shaming

epic meme literally depicting a type of body as undesirable and coded in chauvinist language, muscle and masculine = good, skinny and effeminate = bad? le updoot, I am enlightened sir!

I stand by the fact that these are intended as waifus and that consumption of anime girls turned nation state is, if nothing else, cringe.

I for one prefer my nation states represented as cute boys from 1940

You'll take the BL from my cold dead hands!

Yeah they're just leftist* waifus. You can take the users out of reddit but you can't take the reddit back out of the users. I don't think the specific proportions are necessarily particularly problematic - there is a long history of depicting the "ideal form", from Greek statues to socialist realism - but the low-level horniness is cringe. Luckily I couldn't even name the BRICS countries or recall the post until I saw this one. Let's schedule a full struggle session when we have a couple more examples?

*I know I know the BRICS countries aren't leftist but support multipolarity blah blah blah

e: STOP POSTING EXAMPLES. MaoTheLawn u have shocked the nation

It was definitely horny brained art. I honestly don't really care that much but I definitely get why some do.

Its the internet. You can oppen another window and look up all tge porn. Why be horny here? Arent you tierd of being horny all the time?

Imo, the post itself was borderline and the thirsting comments push it over into unacceptable.

Damn i don't know what's going on, but I'm ashamed for this entire site and all of us together....

Exactly

The picture is borderline for me. I mostly side at not cringe based on the artist being a Brazilian woman who isn't reactionary and has mostly non-horny art. Obviously, my opinion would change if it turns out she actually has some Pixiv account that is nothing but hentai loli shit or if she's posted some incoherent rant about Putin leading a holy crusade against globohomo. And for what it's worth, a Twitter account who I follow and who's a Chinese woman followed the artist after retweeting the BRICS chicks, so at least one out of 600+ million Chinese women thought the art was cool.