Widening this debate from boobs to attractiveness generally...
Being sexually attractive is not a sniper rifle,in the war of the sexes, it's a frag grenade, sure you may well hit that gorgeous partner you've been wanting to notice you, but you're also going to hit every male in the surrounding area too.
It however doesn't mean that they're going to do anything but look. In the end also, you can choose to draw focus to your better areas or downplay them, but you can't choose who finds you alluring and pleasant to look at.
In the end also, if you're deciding that some people aren't nice enough to be allowed to look at you, you're already getting too much attention. Some of us weren't blessed with great physical gifts, should we be banned from art galleries too in case our hideous eyes somehow ruin the beautiful things inside?
I'm not rich, but if I was, I could wear a gold suit with £50 notes stuck to it and jig around in front of the local homeless shelter, but, if one of them comes over and tries to attack me to get them, it's wrong, and I shouldn't have to put up with it... at the same time, I did do something to encourage that situation.
I should say there's no excuse for sexual attacks, none, but there is a danger out there, and you can be safer by not being dressed too provocatively, and not getting drunk to the point of not being able to walk. Again, I'm not saying, it's EVER right to attack someone because they're dressed in a sexy way, or because they've got drunk, but it's in anyone's best interest not to make things more dangerous for themselves.
I realise I sound victorian here, but I am talking in extremes, there's a nightclub used to be near me, and the queues on a friday night, some of the girls were wearing a very little material, if they were queueing to get into a pool, never mind a nightclub.
In short, I'm absolutely not defending rape, but I AM defending the less visually blessed's right to look at attractive people. You can either have all the attention for having striking looks, or no attention. Again, if we're staring at the six inches of cleavage on display, we'll stare a lot less if you're large chested but haven't put them on display like a boobage buffet.
But seriouslly, I was actually just thinking about this subject (not specifically Elizabeth's "subjects"), but rather the simple matter of female sexuality in videogames. I had recently picked up a copy of Tenchu Z for $7 and made a female ninja because - as pointed out in an old pvponine comic - "If I'm going to be staring at something for hours on end, I'd rather it be a girl." Point is that I do think there is a balance between having good looking female characters in a game without just going overboard and overtly making them sexual in nature (i.e. every female in the Dead or Alive fighter series). A number of the female ninja outfits in Tenchu Z were tastefully revealing, but in all honesty when you're sneaking across a wall trying to find the perfect timing to roll out, dash across a yard, and kill the one guard you need to unravel the whole chain of patrols, checking out your ninja's side-boob is really the last thing on your mind.
