It's a tacit "no girls allowed" sign on the front door. Not to mention it seems pretty indefensible because any argument would have to contend with how absolutely and completely immaterial it is to the subject of scale aircraft modelling. Just a juvenile wank for people who've never mastered relating to women in any real way.

Since I come to this site to "get away" from the stresses of real life I debated whether or not I really wanted to wade in and reply to this post--especially since I'm more of a lurker than poster and when Rowan, Drabslab and Jessica have summed up my POV.

Ultimately, I find myself more troubled by the justifications that these types of figures have been around, provide a challenge for the figure painter and are "nothing new to the hobby and is news related to the hobby."

To further justify them by asking if "male figures who are completely topless or just wearing shorts be offensive, I suspect not." misses the mark and is a poor comparison. I would submit that if they were posed in the same suggestive and provocative way these are they could be considered offensive.

Slightly off topic but somewhat related, I seem to recall some grumbling about the recent anatomically correct Bravo6 figure relieving himself.

For better or worse, people, ideas and standards, can and maybe, should evolve over time.

In the end, nothing bothers me more than the, that's the way we've always done it argument.