Sorry
Bellybama since you’re our resident Aussie/Asian Is the metoo movement huge in Australia as well? For those ignorant like myself who don’t really keep up with the media and world news
I'm a bad person to ask about that... My version of politics is "f*** everyone, and then their horse they rode in on."
But I have no issue with them displaying the photoshoot. The title of the article is click-bait, but I wouldn't call anything about it exploitive.
I recognise three of those girls and two of the guys, and they're actors/models. Two of the girls are bio-drag-queens(females who dress up as men dressing up as women) who host a panel at drag-con, and one of the guys is an underwear model, and the other was a dancer On "Hey Qween!"
It's a video-game themed lingerie shoot, posted on a videogame site with 3 warnings before you get to the exposed stuff.
The models going into it would have known what the vibe of the shoot was going to be, and you'd have to willingly know what the subject matter is to reach the photos.
And generalising how "women" are and double standards is pretty rediculous in regards to this shoot. That's like saying all men are rapists (hello Female Eunuch) and are abusive wife bashers, because they play football. (They may be, I don't trust footballers) There's an entire spectrum of people, but it's generally the loudest who bring change, and most of the time they've got some s***ty stuff to say, to go along with all the good stuff.
We've had 150 years of women's suffrage, and there's still inequality on both sides of the spectrum, and we now have women and men saying they "hate feminists" without understanding what feminism is.
A woman wears a short dress and she can be considered "fair game" for heckling. But at the same time, a bloke can walk up the street shirtless exposing his nipples, but a woman will get charged with multiple offences.
The fact that these women were afforded the same chance as the men, IS feminism. Both sexes could be considered exploited, but at the same time they've gotten some brilliant photos and pullouts for their look-see folios, to help them get future middling gigs.
As far as the complaint about Kotaku, they could post whatever imo. They're written as oppinion articles most of the time, by the same 3 writers. They're also the same articles that generate a lot of clicks, and by far the most derision.
The only thing that I could consider exploitive about it all, is that the costume designer managed to bring in heaps of clicks for some REALLY AVERAGE designs. (Although I do like Stella's shot with the horns)
