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Deviousness `anmari has been spreading her infectious positivity throughout our community for over 6 years. Throughout this time Ana has been at the core of all things devious, passionately developing an eclectic gallery, helping organise devmeets, participating in chat events and also recently completed dedicating her time as a Community Volunteer. We are absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for May 2013 to `anmari, congratulations! Read More
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Moved this to the General Art forum as it is better suited here. 
Here's a little snippet...
Cosplay, which is short for “costume play,” is where people dress up as a fictional character (usually from a video game or Japanese cartoon) and attend conventions centered around the media cosplayers watch, read, and play.
A lot of times, those conventions hold contests where cosplayers compete for some sort of prize. In 2011, for instance, a Los Angeles convention awarded $10,000 to costumed competitors who performed a great skit for a panel of judges.
Letting one’s imagination run free while being caught up in a whimsical fantasy might sound nice, but for women it brings sexism and objectification — which many ladies mistake as having fun and expressing themselves.
“How so,” one might ask? Simple: Just look at the sexist stereotypes in the T.V. shows, movies, music, and video games that these lady cosplayers enjoy.
Recently, pop culture critic Anita Sarkeesian pointed out a handful of those stereotypes in a KickStarter plea requesting $6,000 to make a 12-part video series entitled “Tropes Vs. Women In Video Games,” which promises to analyze and criticize 10 female game character archetypes she defines and disapproves of.
Because they are well-educated, elite media consumers, Ms. Sarkeesian and her many fans are a major authority on whether the way video game women look and act are bad for all women.
And yet, the cosplay crowd continues to ignore the Sarkeesianites. Even as the crusaders of female equality explain to the ignorant the incorrect way for girls in media to behave, cosplayers unknowingly — or deliberately — play into the hands of patriarchal conditioning.
...The blogger also idenditifies some so-called bad female stereotypes...
The Fighting F#@k Toy
The Sexy Sidekick
The Sexy Villainess
Background Decoration
Voodoo Priestess/Tribal Sorceress
Women as Reward
Mrs. Male Character
Unattractive Equals Evil
Man with Boobs
I would post the whole thing, but it's really better if you read it yourself. I really don't know what to think. What do you guys and gals think?