kaible:

robotlyra:

In terms of the gender divide in character design, I guess the question that’s forever been in my mind is, “If there was a character as gross as Murdoc Niccals, but a woman, would she ever be as well received and beloved by fandom?”

I legit had an experience during a character design class where I designed a grody punk girl character (I even toned her down from her initial design where she was even grosser) and when I presented her to class I was told she was “unappealing” and when I asked if they meant she we unappealing because she was gross and grody or because it was a bad design, I was never given a straight answer by ANYONE in class. I even specifically brought up Murdoc as proof it’s possible to make an appealing grody character, and I think it put my teacher into a bit of a tailspin.