I have never understood the hysteria or difficulty to use 1 and 2 as male and female. I still have a female blood elf as my main. The types didn’t change that, and I don’t really see any different as choosing symbols for the two.
What’s funny is that WoW is not the only game with this option, but somehow you don’t see theAngler: Call of the Wild community crapping itself over the Body A and Body B thing.
…Hell, in theAngler you can have a mustache on feminine characters. Something something evil LGBT agenduh in muh fishing game!
What bugs me about the female version is that the side boob seems red/irritated…well not the same color as the rest of the boobs.
Granted that it might urk the skin if you wore a chainmail bikini…
Yeah, this is not what’s happening there, and I feel like there’s a lot of stuff that has got tangled in your head and you just mistake three entirely unrelated things together.
Your characters can still be males, females, or whatever, but body types are exactly that – their body types. Obviously, the vast majority of players who consider their characters to be females would choose body type two to represent them, but these two things aren’t bolted one to another anymore. There’s nothing stopping you from taking a body type one for your muscle bounded female character if you wish to do so. If you consider this weird, that’s fine, but this option takes nothing from you and might give something to someone. A good change overall.
The rating system rules for the media go way above all of that and these rules aren’t considering character self-identification or anything of the like. Those are a convoluted beast, sometimes taking in account layers of context, sometimes going by definitions and measurements, and they are a thing of their own. The issue here is that body type two does indeed have female breast as a part of their character model, so Blizzard, abiding by the rules, must implement some sort of cover on top. This doesn’t require us or Blizzard to label this body type as female nor do the rules imply this, and, thus, we aren’t as well.
As an alternative example, if the said breast appeared in the game on a side of a literal wall, the wall still wouldn’t be deemed as female, but it should be covered nonetheless or be at risk of getting the assigned rating go up. This is how these rules work.
The best way to solve it and to make it easier to grasp for people from rural communities is not to return “Female” and “Male” to the body types but to either add more body types or just code in sliders.