• JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialOPEnglish
    9·
    11 days ago

    For my part, I’ve seen her turned in to a ‘cheesecake’ character so often, totally minimizing her mental talents, that I’m enjoying this one.

    Or, “what’s good for the goose is good for the gander.”

    • SatyrSack@quokk.auEnglish
      6·
      11 days ago

      What is a “cheesecake character”? Looking up that term, I just find Cheesecake the Mouse from the Strawberry Shortcake franchise.

      • velma@sh.itjust.works
        91·
        11 days ago

        I’ve seen her turned in to a ‘cheesecake’ character

        From the Cambridge Dictionary - Cheesecake:

        cheesecake noun (WOMEN)

        [ U ] mainly US old-fashioned slang photographs of sexually attractive young women wearing very few clothes, or the women who appear in such photographs

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        beefcake informal

      • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialOPEnglish
        8·
        11 days ago

        I don’t know how much the term is used outside the States, but traditionally over here, it means a woman whose main quality is being sexually attractive in a showy way.

        So in the original cartoon Velma is the brains of the outfit, but in fan-made art and cartoons, she usually seems to be reimagined as little more than a sex object, pretty much the same as Daphne.