But don't worry; if skin-tight over-sexed revealing 'armour' is what you're after, you can absolutely guarantee that the mod community will have you covered, likely in a half dozen different ways.
Why does skin tight, or showing some skin all of a sudden translate to over sexualized? Seriously, have we become a society of puritans? There is a major difference between form fitting, with some skin showing, and over sexualized. Its ironic if you think about it, the original women's movement was to allow women to dress as they want, and NOT be hidden in layers of clothing, only to be replaced with "anything that doesn't hide everything, look frumpy or show the minimum amount of cleavage is oversexualized.
When the outfits are designed to appeal to the male gaze, then yes, it is very much objectification. It's not ironic at all. Women are still be viewed as objects by the vast majority of gamers and game developers. I don't buy for a second that the vast majority of revealing female outfits in video games are designed with the idea of "Hey, what would a badass woman want to wear in this situation?", more likely "so the girl needs to look sexy, how do we do that?"
take a look at some "empowering" clothing mods for women
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https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/categories/60/?BH=2All the while, lusting over shirtless men like Henry Cavil and Jason Mamoa. But I guess that is ok, isn't it? I am sorry, but that is just hypocritical. Also, political catchphrases belong on twitter and 1st year college sociology classes. No where did the OP say anything about oversexualized armor. Classically, Drow armor is pretty much portrayed as he stated except for images from the maybe past 5 years. You might also want to keep in mind, if it wasn't for talented artists like Boris Vallejo, Frank Frazetta, oh yeah you might also want to associate yourself with Julie Bell's work as well, there would be no D&D games, or a Baldurs Gate to play.
Oh yeah, and also, the majority of those "sexy" driven armor mods, made for the "male gaze" in your words, are made by women. Food for thought
