Dungeons & Dragons' armpit hair is more important than you realise
) a tiefling druid — shapeshifter in laymen's terms; and Xenk Yendar , a paladin who narrowly escaped being turned totally evil.'s Holga, a barbarian exiled from her own community for falling in love with the wrong person.Holga is a brutal warrior and heavy drinker. She doesn't pussyfoot around and while she is deeply kind and loyal, she isn't someone who trifles with societal strictures . She also happens to wear chest-plate-style armour with no sleeves.
While we can debate the usefulness of fantasy armour on women for days, what's interesting about Holga's outfit is that it is mostly practical – yes her arms are bare but that gives her freedom of movement – and her hair is out of her face for almost all of her fights. Speaking of hair, she sports it in a natural but never featured spot: under her arms. It's a detail you'll miss if you're not paying very close attention to Rodriguez's arms, but it's there.It might not seem like a detail worth noting, but it is compelling.
It begs the broader question: for whom do we shave? Which in turn brings us to all sorts of questions about emancipation from the male gaze. In Holga's case, and in the case of almost all fantasy, our real, lived experiences of patriarchy only impact upon fantasy realms because the people who make them bring those values to their created world. (We're looking at you,
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