I don't intend to get involved much with this thread but
seriously?
I mean we have "Don't make me beg" Bayonetta in Smash and we can post whatever of her just fine, but official trailer shots and GIFs of Rosalina in a sports leotard doing some fancy acrobatics, from a 7+ game, are NSFW?
The fact one would even consider that outfit on it's own "sexualisation" is outright misogyny. Women actually wear what Rosalina is wearing in the Olympics, because it's practical for events where you're flexing you're body around like that.
Like if you can't look at this without attaching sexual thoughts to it then that is YOUR problem. This isn't SUPPOSED to be sexy. Sexualisation is when something is explicitly SUPPOSED to be sexy or the character explicitly acts sexual (like Bayonetta, who once again, is actually in Smash now). Rosalina may have TINY bits of it if you really reach for it, but for the most part, aside from her Mega Mushroom animation in Mario Tennis and maybe that LINE sticker, one or two things in Smash Bros, and a couple of voice clips (which are again, BARE MINIMUM and not really explicit, I really had to reach for those), I can't think of anything Nintendo have done for Rosalina that explicitly tries to paint her as sexy. She's supposed to be elegant and beautiful, and happens to have a really attractive body. However, Nintendo don't really exploit that body in an explicitly sexual way all that much. Simple trailer shots of her doing a gymnastics routine definitely don't fall under that.
I say this as someone who absolutely thinks Rosalina is a total hottie, but
at least I'm aware she's not explicitly designed to attract me in that way and that I'm largely attracted to Rosalina because of my own reasons and not ones Nintendo intentionally fed to me.
I can understand something like an upskirt screenshot from Ultra Smash or a close up of her chest not being allowed, since that's specifically getting nitty gritty, but an OFFICIAL image? That's outright ridiculous.
The most annoying part is that I posted those exact same GIFs in another Social thread and it was perfectly fine. The exact same thing happened the first time I was banned from this thread too.
This site seriously needs to stop having double standards with Social threads. Either have them all have the same rules, or I will just keep breaking the rules. Not out of spite, but because I legitimately don't know what is and isn't OK anymore and I shouldn't have to remember multiple different rules for different social threads. Social threads are supposed to be the most casual, chilled out threads, I shouldn't have to worry about infractions just because one Social suddenly has different (and unreasonable) restrictions on "age appropriate content".
