Recently, the Comics Alliance and other blogs have been having some great discussions about how the over-the-top sexism in comics art can kill stories for female readers.
If you didn’t get it already, check out <a href="http://fernacular.tumblr.com/post/17814450235/welcome-to-if-male-superhero-costumes-were
“>these awesome sketches of superhero costumes where artist Fernacular drew male superheroes in the same kind of outfits their female counterparts are usually shoved into. The point of the outfits is to:
1) Make it so the first thing you think of when you look at them is sex, whether you want to or not. 2) Make it so that any male human who looks at this feels really uncomfortable. 3) Make it funny, because, well, it’s kinda hilarious really.
via gammasquad with h/t to Matt Bors!
your link is broken
I FEEL LIKE ALL THESE DRAWINGS ARE MISSING HIGH HEELED BOOTS. BECAUSE, YOU KNOW.
“2) Make it so that any male human who looks at this feels really uncomfortable”
Isn’t that a tad insulting/homophobic/heterocentric? And thus killing any point she was trying to make?
I second the link being broken
http://fernacular.tumblr.com/post/17814450235/welcome-to-if-male-superhero-costumes-were
or just take html code off the end of the URL, since smirk’s to lazy to fix it, and it’ll work.
@blownspeakers. Shhhhh. you’re not supposed to think about it. just feel bad for being a man. kthxbai.
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“just feel bad for being a man.”
You know, so much media output results in a woman feeling bad for being who she is. And I don’t like the idea of fighting fire with fire, but if it helps address the issue, so be it.
Superman’s regular costume only looks about 5% less flamboyant and ridiculous than that.
And was that description a cowardly hedge for “effeminate”? Perhaps
And the link is still broken.