• 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.