Fantasy Armor and Lady Bits – Mad Art Lab<\/a>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFantasy Armor and Lady Bits. The brilliant tumbler feed Women Fighters in Reasonable Armor has inspired me to add my two cents to the discussion. Why does my opinion matter? I'm an armorer. I make…\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A very nice essay here by an actual armorer about the nature of women's armor in fantasy (book covers, computer games, comic books, posters), and what one might do about it. Nothing breathtakingly new here (it's a subject that's been thrashed about for decades), but still worth the read. #ddtb Embedded Link Fantasy Armor and … Continue reading “Cheesecake is for eating, not for armor”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,11,66],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-24599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-comics","category-media-art","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":130719,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/05\/21\/very-cool-samurai-armor-exhibit-at-the-denver-art-museum.html","url_meta":{"origin":24599,"position":0},"title":"Very cool samurai armor exhibit at the Denver Art Museum","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 21-May-16 2:13pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Very cool samurai armor exhibit at the Denver Art Museum View on Twitter","rel":"","context":"In "~Tweets"","block_context":{"text":"~Tweets","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/tweets"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/CjAZn1sUUAAKsKL.jpg%3Alarge.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/CjAZn1sUUAAKsKL.jpg%3Alarge.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/CjAZn1sUUAAKsKL.jpg%3Alarge.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/CjAZn1sUUAAKsKL.jpg%3Alarge.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":28541,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/11\/warrior-princesses-in-todays-army.html","url_meta":{"origin":24599,"position":1},"title":"Warrior Princesses in Today's Army","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 11-Jul-12 10:30pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The US Army is figuring out that men and women need different body armor. 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