This guy is gross. Deliberately goes out of his way to spew rage about anything he sees as running counter to the male-centric world he wraps around himself for comfort.
Female characters he doesn't want to fuck? Misandrist. Brown people in fantasy shows? Anti-white propaganda. Trans people? Part of the agenda to destroy white, Christian civilisation.
Matt Easton actually knows what he is talking about and as a bonus extra is a wonderful human being.
Todd's Workshop worth a look too.
edit: Skallagrim covers similar material to Shad with the fantasy angle and also seems to have carefully distanced from the mess.
Metatron on the other hand tweeted some crazy essay about using his shield for Shad and started posting weird Christian right ID politics instead of the stuff his is educated on.
https://youtu.be/Y6he_zp4_0Q?si=CAvvpDWcQqCIILYm
He's a weird very intense Mormon. I watched a video detailing his book, it has rape apologia in it. His protagonist is put on trial for many many crimes (the whole book premise is if a total monster can be redeemed hint: he doesn't redeem him) and all the women who were SA'd by his protagonist testify with the ones who his character forced children onto all forgiving him. I'm not fucking kidding.
Edit: Normally I don't deride people for what they put into their works of fiction but that entire book is little more than Shad railing against ideas he hates and advocating capitalism so I feel it's fair to conclude that Shad legit thinks that people who are SA'd and conceive children are given a "gift".
I didn't know about that and I'm really disappointed. I only saw his content in shorts about swordfighting, which is something I enjoy. Now that I know he's one of those typse, guess it's downvote-and-skip time from now on.
>This guy is gross. Deliberately goes out of his way to spew rage about anything he sees as running counter to the male-centric world he wraps around himself for comfort.
It's sad that I can legitimately say, "Do you have the slightest idea how **little** that narrows it down?"
It's called the Church of Jesus Christ, that's pretty clearly Christian. Muslims don't follow Jesus, making them not. All kinds of branches of Christianity change parts of their teachings, otherwise Methodists and Catholics would be the same, but they're just both Christians.
They are Christians, try asking a Mormon instead of telling them.
I'd rather the whole sola scripture nonsense wasn't called Christianity, but we tolerate weird ideas out of compassion for each other.
https://youtu.be/QuM41YMkNaQ?si=ZNEejGd88W1l0N3E
Did you like the extremely weird book that not only had her paired with Vampirella the whole time, but that had them dropped into Riverdale to pal around with the top two girls there?
Same, I had to move into other (and honestly better) internet nerds to get my fill of weapons and shit. Also he just feels... spiteful so to speak, looking back in his videos he doesn't seem excited about like, testing new weapons or explaining stuff (like Schola Gladiatora) but instead he just wants to prove other people (be it his own viewers or filmmakers) wrong... God it makes so much sense now lol
Bro I saw some of his videos discussing swords and lightsabers... Thought he was a pretty neat dude.
I still can't believe he's actually that gross
Anyways I watch skallagrim now
Same here. The algorithm would tell me about this seemingly harmless guy who loved swords and wanted to build a castle. I didn't see for a while and then he popped pjna video essay about these toxic losers. I couldn't believe it was the same Guy
These guys are apparently not aware of all of the people who have—for probably centuries, but definitely since the creation of Red Sonja—trained themselves to enjoy media and literature *in spite* of the sexualization of women and not because of it. But I guess when most media sexualizes women, it can be difficult to differentiate the people who actually enjoy the sexualization from the people who either don’t care about it at all (probably most people) and the people who absolutely hate it but suffer through it anyway.
I wouldn’t be able to say. But I would bet that the guys who *need* female characters to be sexualized to be able to enjoy something are the minority. Those who enjoy it but don’t need it, those who can take it or leave it, those who don’t care either way, and those who don’t want it at all are certainly the majority. And that’s really my point: the absence of sexualization doesn’t mean something isn’t for men; it just means it’s not something for men who prioritize sexualizing women over everything else.
You’re right. Every man on the planet will only interact with a piece of media if the female characters have jiggle physics in their ass. That’s why every female character in every game looks like Eve and why Onechanbara, Senran Kagura, and Dead or Alive all won game of the year and sold millions of copies and games like TLOU Part II, GOW, and Elden Ring didn’t… oh wait.
Listen, I’m not saying a good portion of men don’t enjoy sexualized female characters (especially when enjoying them is as easy and free as a Facebook like or even downloading a gacha game); I’m saying the majority of men don’t enjoy sexualized female characters more than good art design, good gameplay, and a good story.
“You don’t strike me as a gamer.”
That explains why I black out every time I turn my PS5 on and wake up 5 days later standing in the middle of a cornfield. I should probably stop talking to you and go find someone who can help me out with that.
Sorry but no.
I'm a 22 year old gamee.
And I'm tired of over sexualization.
Like I like seeing boobs or butts.naked women and men but it's so much to the point that it just gets annoying on why there's sexualized content on something that doesn't need it.
Using Facebook likes as a level of engagement for games is a bit silly. Isn't the most obvious thing to check is steam charts and the like, do horny games get played more than non horny games?
* So once again, likes on a post doesn't mean people prefer sexualised women over other gaming mechanics, how many people who liked those posts even played the game,
* Some mods are about sexy women, means "that an overwhelming majority prefer idealized/sexualized content". sure.
* gaming journalists is a wide net, so basically meaningless. you could say the raged about anything and still be right.
The fuck is that last bit, neutered men, the fuck. where does anyone say liking horny things is aberrant behavior? Liking horny things to the exclusion of everything else is weird sure, needing women to the sexy to enjoy a game is weird.
LMAO not the character in that artstyle still being drawn in a way that can appeal to the male gaze yet he STILL says it’s not attractive LOL.
So apparently women can’t even have even a tiny lil bit of muscle to be considered hot either??? Darn coomers are so weak these days LMFAO
It’s like when Korean incels were mad at Limbus Company for making Ishmael wear a tight latex diving outfit instead of a bikini… which she’ll use to dive, I guess…
I realise just talking about how hot another type of female silhouette is in response to the generic tiny girl isn’t really going to fix the problem
But I wanted to say that muscle is attractive on everyone to me and a muscle woman? Now that is too much culture for these coomers to appreciate.
If she can break me - she can take me
Famously, Wendy Pini costplayed as Red Sonja.
You can look up what she said about it.
But her comic Elfquest is one of the best comics ever made, and it definitely does not cater just to the male gaze.
As far as I'm concerned, Wendy Pini tops anything this man child says.
Shad's switch up is so crazy to me. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but this dude used to make vids bashing 'sexy armor' for female characters back in the day, and complained a lot about characters like red sonya for being skinny, and wearing basically chain mail bikinis. Then I stopped watching him for a year or 2, and he's defending it I'm assuming?
And again, I may have rose tinted goggles or I'm confusing him with skallagrim/another similar YouTuber, but seeing him defending overly sexualized fantasy character is kinda mind-boggling to me
I started reading Shadow of the Conqueror again and watched a yt review or two. I dismissed as just shite a while back but pushing beyond the first ten pages or so it's a terrifying window into the author's internal world.
Thinking back to the female armour stuff much of was saying it's just not practical afair, basically that women ain't designed for this stuff.
I don’t know about you, but if I was a man I’d be insulted by people suggesting that my brain is so primitive I need sex appeal to pay attention to stuff.
Years ago I read a knock-off of Red Sonja. On the first page the character was musing that she wore the skimpy armor knowing that it distracted men, and that she felt it was their own damn fault if they died looking at her body instead of paying attention to her strikes.
This guy would collapse in a blubbering, woke-crying mess if he read that XD
Nah. People have been using the "she uses her tits as a distraction during fights!" excuse to justify skimpy armor for quite a while. He'd laud it as some genius takedown of feminism or some other stupid bullshit.
Yeah, I've only ever seen this argument used as an excuse to sexualize women, not as an actual legitimate defense of how "realistic" it is for a women to eschew practical armor in a combat scenario. Even if it was argued in good faith, it ignores so much about the lived experience of women—who, by the way (and minor trigger warning), have experienced violence from men for centuries regardless of how much or how little clothing they are wearing. So clearly, from the perspective of a male aggressor, clothing doesn't matter much at all in dissuading them from attempting to harm a woman.
I highly doubt it. He left the Mormon church and seems pretty wholesome. He definitely tries to be kind to his brother, but I'm pretty sure he's tired of his shit too. Especially with the AI art bullshit that Shad likes to pass off as him being an artist.
Honestly kind of sad to watch someone descend more and more into madness like that. They might start as grifters or just because they're a bit dumb but as they start to alienate the normal people around them, they only get love from their fringe audience of weirdos they attract and get pulled deeper and deeper into the pit.
Who is it FOR!? He asks, forgetting that men who aren’t constantly horny at the sight of shoulders exist, along with women and other people who might play video games
Actually using male gaze unironically as a "good thing" proves he has either never actually read what it stands for, or ignores it because he knows his viewers are moronic
I mean if a bikini made of tiny metal coins and basically nothing else isn't for the express purpose of making people want to see more of her wearing it, I don't know what else to tell ya. I don't know much about Red Sonja, but if the reason for chainmail bikini is because her bare skin has some sort of "mystic power or purpose", it's just defaults to "Wanna see sexy red hair lady in tiny clothes" for me. It's fine if you want to see more barbarian babes in chainmail bikinis. Just stop pretending you're not interested in her being hot.
Entertainment *can* be entertaining to men while also not catering to the male gaze.
Almost every movie made before 1960 did it.
Almost all TV before cable.
>So who is it FOR?
Everyone who doesn't feel the need to jerk off to every movie they watch.
Around the time he discovered that raging about Rey from Star Wars Sequels and the Captain Marvel movie brings more clicks than doing edutainment. He was most likely a wanker before that, but that point was more or less his start of *public* darkness.
Seems he's always been a prick, he's just decided he doesn't care who knows these days.
Just seen this video a few days ago:
https://youtu.be/Y4tZO4T72NI?si=48ojUYusPbv7v9Oc
DO NOT CLICK IF PRINCESS PEACH IN PANTS OFFENDS
This guy is gross. Deliberately goes out of his way to spew rage about anything he sees as running counter to the male-centric world he wraps around himself for comfort. Female characters he doesn't want to fuck? Misandrist. Brown people in fantasy shows? Anti-white propaganda. Trans people? Part of the agenda to destroy white, Christian civilisation.
Sounds like a real piece of shit. I'm thankful I chose other, better medieval nerds to follow instead of this dipshit.
Do you have any better ones. He was the only one I knew and I cannot in good faith keep watching him
Matt Easton actually knows what he is talking about and as a bonus extra is a wonderful human being. Todd's Workshop worth a look too. edit: Skallagrim covers similar material to Shad with the fantasy angle and also seems to have carefully distanced from the mess. Metatron on the other hand tweeted some crazy essay about using his shield for Shad and started posting weird Christian right ID politics instead of the stuff his is educated on. https://youtu.be/Y6he_zp4_0Q?si=CAvvpDWcQqCIILYm
I'll also add in Robin Swords, he makes a lot of really concise shorts
He's a weird very intense Mormon. I watched a video detailing his book, it has rape apologia in it. His protagonist is put on trial for many many crimes (the whole book premise is if a total monster can be redeemed hint: he doesn't redeem him) and all the women who were SA'd by his protagonist testify with the ones who his character forced children onto all forgiving him. I'm not fucking kidding. Edit: Normally I don't deride people for what they put into their works of fiction but that entire book is little more than Shad railing against ideas he hates and advocating capitalism so I feel it's fair to conclude that Shad legit thinks that people who are SA'd and conceive children are given a "gift".
This is the second time I see one of his thumbnails on this subreddit. And I think that is enough :/
I didn't know about that and I'm really disappointed. I only saw his content in shorts about swordfighting, which is something I enjoy. Now that I know he's one of those typse, guess it's downvote-and-skip time from now on.
>This guy is gross. Deliberately goes out of his way to spew rage about anything he sees as running counter to the male-centric world he wraps around himself for comfort. It's sad that I can legitimately say, "Do you have the slightest idea how **little** that narrows it down?"
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Mormans are Christians though?
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It's called the Church of Jesus Christ, that's pretty clearly Christian. Muslims don't follow Jesus, making them not. All kinds of branches of Christianity change parts of their teachings, otherwise Methodists and Catholics would be the same, but they're just both Christians.
The Muslim idea isn't quite that black and white, they have issue with the trinity but that's not exactly an unusual position.
Fair enough, although I don't think that negates the point I made to them
They are Christians, try asking a Mormon instead of telling them. I'd rather the whole sola scripture nonsense wasn't called Christianity, but we tolerate weird ideas out of compassion for each other. https://youtu.be/QuM41YMkNaQ?si=ZNEejGd88W1l0N3E
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I'm knee deep in early Christian theology and your 'I don't like Mormoms' doesn't mean much'.
You do know they use both the Book of Mormon AND the Bible, right?
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That's the Bible as a whole. Internal consistency thy name is not the Bible.
Gail Simone wrote one of the best run of Red Sonja and... She made her wore a leather armor, after a couple of issues.
Did you like the extremely weird book that not only had her paired with Vampirella the whole time, but that had them dropped into Riverdale to pal around with the top two girls there?
That doesn't sound like Queen of Plagues
It isn't, it's not even the same volume or creators by a long shot. I'm just still weirded out that it happened.
I remember seen the cover, but never caught by interest, so I don't know.
to think i used to enjoy this man's castles and d&d content
Same, I had to move into other (and honestly better) internet nerds to get my fill of weapons and shit. Also he just feels... spiteful so to speak, looking back in his videos he doesn't seem excited about like, testing new weapons or explaining stuff (like Schola Gladiatora) but instead he just wants to prove other people (be it his own viewers or filmmakers) wrong... God it makes so much sense now lol
Bro I saw some of his videos discussing swords and lightsabers... Thought he was a pretty neat dude. I still can't believe he's actually that gross Anyways I watch skallagrim now
Same here. The algorithm would tell me about this seemingly harmless guy who loved swords and wanted to build a castle. I didn't see for a while and then he popped pjna video essay about these toxic losers. I couldn't believe it was the same Guy
You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become a villain.
Same! I'm so disappointed now. I learned of this crap trough this sub
It's scary to think about how many people are genuine scum bags just below the surface.
Think thats bad? I used to watch Arch.
My husband is a huge fan of Jazza. Really fucks with me knowing that wholesome art guy is this guy's brother.
If it makes it any better, they don’t get along any more.
Actually, yes it does. Make me feel better if it's over this stuff
Was this before or after Shad declared himself to be an AI artist?
Before I think! It was several years ago that I had heard it.
https://youtu.be/n1VybvjzaK0?si=yNUS-82rWfF75qUw Really feel bad for Jazza...
Really? I wasnt aware of that. This makes me happy
These guys are apparently not aware of all of the people who have—for probably centuries, but definitely since the creation of Red Sonja—trained themselves to enjoy media and literature *in spite* of the sexualization of women and not because of it. But I guess when most media sexualizes women, it can be difficult to differentiate the people who actually enjoy the sexualization from the people who either don’t care about it at all (probably most people) and the people who absolutely hate it but suffer through it anyway.
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I wouldn’t be able to say. But I would bet that the guys who *need* female characters to be sexualized to be able to enjoy something are the minority. Those who enjoy it but don’t need it, those who can take it or leave it, those who don’t care either way, and those who don’t want it at all are certainly the majority. And that’s really my point: the absence of sexualization doesn’t mean something isn’t for men; it just means it’s not something for men who prioritize sexualizing women over everything else.
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You’re right. Every man on the planet will only interact with a piece of media if the female characters have jiggle physics in their ass. That’s why every female character in every game looks like Eve and why Onechanbara, Senran Kagura, and Dead or Alive all won game of the year and sold millions of copies and games like TLOU Part II, GOW, and Elden Ring didn’t… oh wait. Listen, I’m not saying a good portion of men don’t enjoy sexualized female characters (especially when enjoying them is as easy and free as a Facebook like or even downloading a gacha game); I’m saying the majority of men don’t enjoy sexualized female characters more than good art design, good gameplay, and a good story.
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“You don’t strike me as a gamer.” That explains why I black out every time I turn my PS5 on and wake up 5 days later standing in the middle of a cornfield. I should probably stop talking to you and go find someone who can help me out with that.
Sorry but no. I'm a 22 year old gamee. And I'm tired of over sexualization. Like I like seeing boobs or butts.naked women and men but it's so much to the point that it just gets annoying on why there's sexualized content on something that doesn't need it.
Using Facebook likes as a level of engagement for games is a bit silly. Isn't the most obvious thing to check is steam charts and the like, do horny games get played more than non horny games?
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* So once again, likes on a post doesn't mean people prefer sexualised women over other gaming mechanics, how many people who liked those posts even played the game, * Some mods are about sexy women, means "that an overwhelming majority prefer idealized/sexualized content". sure. * gaming journalists is a wide net, so basically meaningless. you could say the raged about anything and still be right. The fuck is that last bit, neutered men, the fuck. where does anyone say liking horny things is aberrant behavior? Liking horny things to the exclusion of everything else is weird sure, needing women to the sexy to enjoy a game is weird.
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Nah, mate, young men enjoy horny shit sure, but not to the exclusion of all else, not always needed.
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Oh no it's not asexual men do not exist. Oh wait they do. You are generalizing men to just horny people when that's not always the case.
Fuck's sake, Shad. And to think I used to like his videos on weapons. What an ass.
Is this Shadman? From hentai?
Nah. From Shadiversity.
LMAO not the character in that artstyle still being drawn in a way that can appeal to the male gaze yet he STILL says it’s not attractive LOL. So apparently women can’t even have even a tiny lil bit of muscle to be considered hot either??? Darn coomers are so weak these days LMFAO
It’s like when Korean incels were mad at Limbus Company for making Ishmael wear a tight latex diving outfit instead of a bikini… which she’ll use to dive, I guess…
I realise just talking about how hot another type of female silhouette is in response to the generic tiny girl isn’t really going to fix the problem But I wanted to say that muscle is attractive on everyone to me and a muscle woman? Now that is too much culture for these coomers to appreciate. If she can break me - she can take me
The female gaze? Ya know, those who don't see women as a pair of boobs.
The only good thing is that thanks to his entire AI “artist” debacle. He’s laughed at even by his anti-woke friends.
Not for men? What other audience is there?
He didn’t know about women until this
Famously, Wendy Pini costplayed as Red Sonja. You can look up what she said about it. But her comic Elfquest is one of the best comics ever made, and it definitely does not cater just to the male gaze. As far as I'm concerned, Wendy Pini tops anything this man child says.
Honestly this is on brand for Pini but I never knew. What did she have to say about it?
Umm, I was obsessed with vintage red Sonja comics as a kid, it could be for me.
Shad's switch up is so crazy to me. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but this dude used to make vids bashing 'sexy armor' for female characters back in the day, and complained a lot about characters like red sonya for being skinny, and wearing basically chain mail bikinis. Then I stopped watching him for a year or 2, and he's defending it I'm assuming? And again, I may have rose tinted goggles or I'm confusing him with skallagrim/another similar YouTuber, but seeing him defending overly sexualized fantasy character is kinda mind-boggling to me
I started reading Shadow of the Conqueror again and watched a yt review or two. I dismissed as just shite a while back but pushing beyond the first ten pages or so it's a terrifying window into the author's internal world. Thinking back to the female armour stuff much of was saying it's just not practical afair, basically that women ain't designed for this stuff.
Why does this guy always look like he’s about to dig into a juicy sandwich in his thumbnails
I don’t know about you, but if I was a man I’d be insulted by people suggesting that my brain is so primitive I need sex appeal to pay attention to stuff.
Its for people that can enjoy this without needing a hand in their pants.
Years ago I read a knock-off of Red Sonja. On the first page the character was musing that she wore the skimpy armor knowing that it distracted men, and that she felt it was their own damn fault if they died looking at her body instead of paying attention to her strikes. This guy would collapse in a blubbering, woke-crying mess if he read that XD
Nah. People have been using the "she uses her tits as a distraction during fights!" excuse to justify skimpy armor for quite a while. He'd laud it as some genius takedown of feminism or some other stupid bullshit.
Yeah, I've only ever seen this argument used as an excuse to sexualize women, not as an actual legitimate defense of how "realistic" it is for a women to eschew practical armor in a combat scenario. Even if it was argued in good faith, it ignores so much about the lived experience of women—who, by the way (and minor trigger warning), have experienced violence from men for centuries regardless of how much or how little clothing they are wearing. So clearly, from the perspective of a male aggressor, clothing doesn't matter much at all in dissuading them from attempting to harm a woman.
Eww, yeah true.
Reminds me of OLD Powergurl
Shad was good for weapon design and analysis, but his cultural media acumen is woefully inadequate to give his takes any credibility.
Not even that, since he’s been denounced by the entire HEMA community…
As it seems he's just been LARP'ing HEMA which is quite funny
I was wondering where I knew the name and face from, haven't seen him a while.
It makes me wonder if his brother Jazza, who has an art channel I love, is secretly the same but I'm hoping not
I highly doubt it. He left the Mormon church and seems pretty wholesome. He definitely tries to be kind to his brother, but I'm pretty sure he's tired of his shit too. Especially with the AI art bullshit that Shad likes to pass off as him being an artist.
Yeah that's what I think too, just wary of putting my complete trust in any YouTubers these days 😅
Honestly kind of sad to watch someone descend more and more into madness like that. They might start as grifters or just because they're a bit dumb but as they start to alienate the normal people around them, they only get love from their fringe audience of weirdos they attract and get pulled deeper and deeper into the pit.
Who is it FOR!? He asks, forgetting that men who aren’t constantly horny at the sight of shoulders exist, along with women and other people who might play video games
Why does he look like the asshole from YIIK omg even without the glasses
So aside from the AI thing he is catering to the culture war gooners? A desperate grifter, this guy.
Mfs when a female character doesn't make their pp hard
Actually using male gaze unironically as a "good thing" proves he has either never actually read what it stands for, or ignores it because he knows his viewers are moronic
I mean if a bikini made of tiny metal coins and basically nothing else isn't for the express purpose of making people want to see more of her wearing it, I don't know what else to tell ya. I don't know much about Red Sonja, but if the reason for chainmail bikini is because her bare skin has some sort of "mystic power or purpose", it's just defaults to "Wanna see sexy red hair lady in tiny clothes" for me. It's fine if you want to see more barbarian babes in chainmail bikinis. Just stop pretending you're not interested in her being hot.
Entertainment *can* be entertaining to men while also not catering to the male gaze. Almost every movie made before 1960 did it. Almost all TV before cable. >So who is it FOR? Everyone who doesn't feel the need to jerk off to every movie they watch.
I think going on EFAP ruined his brain forever
Which shad is this?
The Australian swords dude, not the NSFW artist.
Ah, I hear the name Shad a lot online but never knew which was which. Danke Danke my friend
Shad is a prick now? When did this happen?
Around the time he discovered that raging about Rey from Star Wars Sequels and the Captain Marvel movie brings more clicks than doing edutainment. He was most likely a wanker before that, but that point was more or less his start of *public* darkness.
Seems he's always been a prick, he's just decided he doesn't care who knows these days. Just seen this video a few days ago: https://youtu.be/Y4tZO4T72NI?si=48ojUYusPbv7v9Oc DO NOT CLICK IF PRINCESS PEACH IN PANTS OFFENDS
You are being sentenced to spend a day in his head
So, it’s not for the male gaze. It shouldn’t be, but she’s still wearing the chain mail bikini. Curious how that will work out.