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dewdroponaleaf:

aw rats guyz he figured us out :(

Damn, he makes feminism sound so badass.

…*hides her eye of newt and gets back into the closet* 

Well I was only planning to destroy capitalism a little…

Yes, Pat.   We, women, wanting not to be raped and to actually get paid according to our actual skills makes us all lesbians.  * yes sarcasm *  I’m suprised he didn’t come out and claim we hate america.

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This comic accurately sums up my feelings towards those who complain about The Hawkeye Initiative.

look, I am a huge David Willis fan. He is funny, brilliant, and bang on the mark.

But this? This is the single best and most important comic he has ever done and I am going to keep reblogging it until people stop making the argument in the first panel.

This comic makes me mad because it misses the point so ridiculously bad. HEAR ME OUT! She implies that men in comics aren’t sexualized because they don’t look like what SHE likes a man to look like. Yet female characters ARE sexualized because “all men are pigs who just like tits and ass”. Thats hardly fair OR logical. There are men who don’t like huge breasts and skimpy outfits. Males CAN be and ARE sexualized too (many characters have some pretty tight tights (I mean they have big dicks)). And women CAN look like they do in comic books, even if its not as common. Would you say that a woman with large breasts in real life is “sexualized” just for HAVING large breasts? Yes their outfits in comics at times can be a little excessive, and obviously designed by a horny male, but isn’t a major feminist point that women shouldn’t be judged on how they dress but how they act? The problem isn’t how the characters look, its how they are represented. Some women in comics (Mary Jane, Lois Lane etc) are nothing but damsels in distress that don’t do anything but fuck up and get caught, but often don’t get much hate because they aren’t very sexual looking, aside from being pretty maybe. Sometimes they’re put in exceedingly sexual positions and situations that are obviously for “male arousal”. Women need to be treated more competently and with respect. And sometimes they are; characters like raven, Ramona Flowers (she fights quite a few of her own battles in Scott pilgrim), and especially wonder woman (who is from a civilization of strong women where men parent even allowed) prove women can be attractive and strong if writer well. So basically, yes, women AND men are pushed to extremes in comics in terms of looks. Its definitely true that women are sexualized. But for the most part, its not by their design. Men don’t know how to write a woman’s perspective very well, female artists and writers need to take responsibility for writing strong, intelligent, and interesting characters.
Rant over.  It’s pretty late, I’m pretty tired. Hope this doesn’t sound stupid and bigoted.  I highly support gender equality, I don’t want to sound like I think otherwise.

You’re admitting that women are poorly represented in comics but hey it’s not because they generally have sexually idealized figures and their tits hanging out, it’s because they’re not treated with respect?

And your defense against this is to say the men are sexualized too, darn it.

So basically your argument is the same as the guy in the comic.

The fact of the matter is that female characters in comics — in general, not across the board — are largely treated like pin-ups and propss, used to drive a plot along to further develop or serve the male characters. The men in comics are treated with more respect by far and by large.

Women in comics are sexualized to a predominantly male fantasy-level standard. Long legs, itty waist, soft shoulders, doe eyes, pouty lips, heaving perky bosoms and so-tight-it-might-as-well-be-latex-paint clothing.

Men in comics are generally sexualized, again, to a predominantly male fantasy-level standard. Every major superhero is barrel-chested, strong-jawed, huge-wanged and basically looks like Arnold Schwarzenegger in his Conan the Barbarian prime.

Incidentally that’s not the same thing as what’s being done to women. It’s male power fantasy. Who didn’t want to be Rocky or Rambo or Conan or so on and so forth? (Well me, but that’s beside the point.)

DC and Marvel and many other comic houses have essentially staffed themselves with egoist guys who wish they were the Alphas in “Revenge of the Nerds”, rather than the Tri-Lambs. And that’s not entirely on the shoulders of the writers or the artists. Many push against the walls, only to be smacked back into place, told to write/draw “what sells”, or replaced by someone who will do as they’re told.

“Indie” comics are where the actual varieties in writing and art styles come out to play — and that even includes hyper-sexualized women and men, yes, because that’s frankly something that we can’t escape from. Even Mr. Willis draws his women to a standard he finds attractive — what with their curvy hips and glasses. He also draws more than that though, so characters aren’t so “cookie cutter” despite the inherit cartoonist’s style he’s developed.

You cannot sit there and say “women are poorly represented in comics and drawn in a sexual fashion” and then say “but so are men!” — No, I’m sorry, it’s not the same thing.

At all.

So stop pretending like it is.

I agree except for the assertion that comic book superheroes are “huge-wanged.” Comic book superheroes are NO-wanged.  They have no crotchbulge, barely, like ever.  Because most dudes don’t wanna see man-genitals, they wanna see big-muscled power fantasies they can see themselves as.

But if men were being sexualized the same way females were, you’d better fuckin’ believe they’d all be spillin’ dong out of their pants. 

It is actually kind of funny when you think about it like that.

They want the big, muscle-bound power fantasies… but with no wangs.

So basically dudes wish they had no wangs.

That is now how I am going to imagine these kind of people from now on: people who wish they didn’t have penises.

If men in comics were sexualized, their would be No Ugly male characters.  Ever.  They would be handsome all the time.  The fact is there aren’t ugly female super heroes but there are ugly male super heroes. 

Then there is the women in fridges syndrome.  How many times has a female super hero been giving an important role and that role be of a victum?    Has it ever been the opposite, where the female had to save a victumized male super hero? 

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