Those naked, painted Pict wartiors made a lasting impression tho…
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Are we… Are we allowed to say that? 
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Well, probably not.
But the only thing that comes to mind when i think of “Cracks”.
Is that very old family guy episode where chris becomes a famous artist, and when they have an art exhibit, they do a gag where his new celebrity girlfriend is so thin she literally slips through the cracks in the floor and disappears
I mean…they would…
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I’ll be honest, I don’t think I’ve ever heard people (or Hollywood) defend skimpier armors from the standpoint of practicality.
I recall hearing someone saying that the lore explanation to this was that the armor was cheap and rubbish, and was more meant to fulfill the role of soldiers losing their individuality in order to better instill blind obedience.
My space fantasy lore knowledge is pretty bad though so eh.
Myeah, banning skimpy is not exactly a “woke agenda”.
Like you said, at least in the West, it’s an American Christianity thing which is pretty much completely conservative, to the point where the Vatican comes across more progressive than they do… (ostensibly, at least)
Absolutely - can’t wait to parade around Stormwind in nothing but a pair of skimpy undercrackers or a mankini if its cold…
I prefer to give my chars a bad a… outfit. The males and the females. But everyone should decide for themselves.
Like this is my female holy paladin;
Yatsjiva - Character (worldofwarcraft.com)
I may be wrong, but in medieval times were they not called ‘chastity belts’??
Well…Y’see…This is another titillating myth.
Chastity belts were never a historical thing, or rather, they were, but not how you think, and very, very specific.
For a start, the idea of a Knight going off to Crusade and making his wife wear a chastity belt to which he had the key is utter horsetwaddle. Never happened. Any ‘Chastity belt’ you see in a museum was almost (As in 99% likely) sure to have been made in the late 1800’s in Germany, the same as all those ‘Medieval torture devices’.
Simply never existed. They were invented (and mass manufactured) to excite the Victorian market in Britain especially. There was a specific foundry and metalsmith town in Germany (The name escapes me, I want to say Meissen, but they were pottery I think) where these things were built as ‘medieval relics’. They have as much providence as the ancient folk who sold Saint’s Relics, usually bones. If all these were correct, your average Catholic Saint would have been two hundred feet tall, with about seventeen fingers on each hand, given how many were sold.
Medieval folk weren’t actually as barbaric as people think, and yet were. When it came to torture, they didn’t go in for all this faffy metal torture device rubbish (Which would have been a)expensive, and b) reliant upon mechanical technology not available at the time) but instead relied upon the old favourites, fire, and knives for lopping off bits. Sometimes combining both. Problem with a red hot poker is heat conductivity. If it hot enough to burn someone, it’s going to be hot enough to burn the torturer as well. What -was- a thing they used back then is a popular technique employed by the US of A. Waterboarding. It was invented by the Spanish Inquisition…
Now, Chastity belts, Never a thing, -Except- specifically in Florence, at the time a City State (Italy had not become one country yet at that point). Florence was at the time a pretty libidinous city, and young maidens of Florence when out of the house would indeed wear metal protective belts to ward off the unwanted attentions of lusty Florentine bucks as it were. The difference is…They held the key to them. Back home. So they were actually a device to protect against sexual molestation, that was entirely under the control of the woman wearing it.
People did as people did, and made up history about them, and so we have the enduring myth of crusading knights strapping their wives into chastity belts, which simply never happened…
Weird…
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I think this is important. It’s about personal choice. I don’t dress my characters in overly skimpy outfits. But I am all for diversity in taste. We have a game that allows me to transmog my outfit (within reasonable limitations). If a piece of gear drops and it’s a chain mail bikini I can simply transmog it to something that suits my style. But someone else might have just gained a piece of chain mail bikini they fancied.
Just because YOU (not literal you, just figuratively speaking!) do not like a certain style does not make you the arbiter of what everyone wants to wear. What you think is degrading might even be empowering to someone else. Let people have their slutmogs, as long as there are still pieces of badass full body armour available. More options are always good.
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Knew i could rely on you to set the record straight there. Again i have learnt something new today
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It was real, I saw it in a movie
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To be fair, Brigante is a walking, talking paradoxon…
Aye, some are just wnkng off…
This is another thing i don’t understand.
Just because i want skimpy outfits, does not mean i get arousal from an ingame character.
How did people even come to that conclusion.
I said “some”. Why you feel included if you’re not addressed?
Because you Quoted my post?
Kinda feels “Adressed” to me 
Well a quote doesn’t equal the pronoun “you” does it? See it as a side note to what you wrote. 
Still, we are trying to normalize skimpy outfits and bring more acceptance towards the concept, So saying that it makes some people start wnkng because of them can send the wrong message and have the opposite effect.
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