This And That...
Dec. 11th, 2008 10:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fangrrl_squeesFirst of all:
Happy birthday,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jigglykat!
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I really want to drag the soapbox out about this, but today is crazy at work and my computer at home is fried (hopefully not irretrievably so) so here's the short version.
As prompted by the topic coming up on![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
dw_cosplay - albeit indirectly - we see an awful lot of female folks 'crossplaying' as male characters, but hardly ever see folks dressing up as female characters. In fact, I can think of only one instance that I've encountered - discounting tongue-in-cheek pisstakes like some Sailor Moon costuming I've seen out there.
I know that there's a long-established tradition of crossplay in the anime community and I think it's finally creeping into the SF community at large. Combine that with the fact that female fashion has been co-opting male ditto for centuries (but not vice versa, else no-one would give a stuff about Eddie Izzard's wardrobe and "metrosexuals") and it shouldn't be much of a surprise, really.
But some folks seem uncomfortable with crossplay, for whatever reason.
Me? I think it's great. If you want to cosplay as a character, go for it and damn the torpedoes - but I know that practice is rarely as easy as theory.
What are your thoughts on crossplay, dear reader? I'm particularly interested to hear of any serious (well, as serious as it gets) male-player-to-female-character crossplay, as it's such a bloody rarity. But any and all thoughts are welcome.
I bet I'm going to have some interesting reading when I get done with my day from heck...
PS - I did not just think of creating a community called dw_crossplay. No. Really. I didn't.
PPS - Okay. I did. I might do it, if it wasn't for the fact that I think it would create a division that doesn't need to exist. I would prefer that the costumers/cosplayers be one big bunch o'fun-loving folks...
Happy birthday,
jigglykat!***
I really want to drag the soapbox out about this, but today is crazy at work and my computer at home is fried (hopefully not irretrievably so) so here's the short version.
As prompted by the topic coming up on
dw_cosplay - albeit indirectly - we see an awful lot of female folks 'crossplaying' as male characters, but hardly ever see folks dressing up as female characters. In fact, I can think of only one instance that I've encountered - discounting tongue-in-cheek pisstakes like some Sailor Moon costuming I've seen out there.I know that there's a long-established tradition of crossplay in the anime community and I think it's finally creeping into the SF community at large. Combine that with the fact that female fashion has been co-opting male ditto for centuries (but not vice versa, else no-one would give a stuff about Eddie Izzard's wardrobe and "metrosexuals") and it shouldn't be much of a surprise, really.
But some folks seem uncomfortable with crossplay, for whatever reason.
Me? I think it's great. If you want to cosplay as a character, go for it and damn the torpedoes - but I know that practice is rarely as easy as theory.
What are your thoughts on crossplay, dear reader? I'm particularly interested to hear of any serious (well, as serious as it gets) male-player-to-female-character crossplay, as it's such a bloody rarity. But any and all thoughts are welcome.
I bet I'm going to have some interesting reading when I get done with my day from heck...
PS - I did not just think of creating a community called dw_crossplay. No. Really. I didn't.
PPS - Okay. I did. I might do it, if it wasn't for the fact that I think it would create a division that doesn't need to exist. I would prefer that the costumers/cosplayers be one big bunch o'fun-loving folks...
