@lucy @nepfag @kro

You illustrate perfectly the problem women have with idealized archetypes. You look at the old Lara and you feel nothing but discomfort and resentment at the fact that you'll never look that sexually appealing. So you try to deflect that fact by shaming men for finding said figure alluring. I have news for you, dear, most mean like thin and fit, athletic women with big breasts. Not just twelve year old perverts, not just lonely, sexually unappealing slobs or any other negative stereotype you might try to use to shame men simply for liking what they are evolutionary wired to to find attractive. And that is just a fact you're going to have to live with.

Men, on the other hand, don't do this. We don't look at the idealized forms of the powerful and god-like super heroes in comics or the muscular, handsome, and masculine men from other forms of fiction and become resentful about the fact that we'll never live up to them. We become inspired by them all the more in fact! I'll never be as great as the heroes I've read about (or as handsome in most cases), but I'll still be better for having added them to my memetic fabric.

So, you can take your homely, mentally unstable and dull "heroines", but never forget the fact that YOU are more comfortable with this Lara NOT because pubescent males no longer find her as sexually appealing as before, but because you'll never be as arousing to men in general as the original idealized Croft and you resent her for the fact. You simply find Nu Lara less threatening. That's why you prefer her.