Female Superheroes
05/17/09 05:31:09 | 0
Good point, Joanna. Comic books have always done a fair amount of serving (or at least tickling) fetishy itches, and now that we're all agreed they are an
adult's medium as much as a children's one, there isn't anything really wrong with that. As long as the proper titles are directed at the proper
audience, it's fine.
I think they get into the most trouble when the hypocrisy kicks in: when they start pretending there ISN'T a bondage fetish, or that men DON'T like
looking at big bouncy breasts, or that degrading a woman's icon actually empowers them. That's where their credibility goes down the toilet with all
but the terminally gullible.
The fact is, comic books have not evolved past "Quiet or Papa spank" while the rest of the world HAS, and their attempts to appear enlightened about
women come off like the 70s sitcoms making a production of the black guy who was a lawyer and not a janitor. It's your father...