With comics, it isn’t only too many men doing the sexualized depictions of women; some of the women artists do it too. That doesn’t make it any better: women have been raised in the same human society and have been socialized to see women as sex objects and the "sex class" too. And in my opinion too many women unfortunately collaborate with all kinds of things that harm them, especially that harm them as a group. Some women apparently are also worried that if they don't conform their art to even sexist standards, they won't find work, and not enough men will buy their comics or whatever books. More men should be offended by that because it effectively stereotypes them and calls most of them sleaze-balls.
But those women are actually correct to be worried, in my opinion and experience. I refuse to conform as a woman artist of whatever kinds of art, and my work remains on the bottom in society, in visibility and success. I and my work have been so far underground all these decades, I’m forever melting at the Earth’s core. (Or maybe compacting.) However, I think that if I ever weakened and sold out, my husband would never stop sneering at me. He has difficulty liking women (and men) who are stereotypes and wimps.
I’ve read a lot of comics over my lifetime, and unfortunately the women in them have been and still are frequently rendered in a sexualized way and like sex objects, like with their nipples and breast shapes visible through their clothing, including while they're superhero-ing. Apparently, none of them wear bras while doing all sorts of extreme fighting. And don't get me started on the bare l-a-bia and v-aginal skin visible in some comics with women in high-cut suits; I nearly canned my DCIU subscription because when I tried to write the word l-abia on a private folder called “no good because l-abia are visible,” so I'd know which comics to never try again and which artists to avoid, DC put asterisks for the word’s letters!
So showing women's g-enitals drawn in a comic is okay, but writing the biological term for them isn't? I only hyphenate in my posts online because sickos do internet searches, and I don't want that to lead to what I'm saying. DC probably has an adult-language filter on the DCIU site, but apparently no “standards filter” on partial n-udity for the women characters in comics.
In comparison, all the superhero-ing men in tights--the specific shapes of the separate parts of their genitals are never showing through their clothing; neither are their nipples. Apparently, they don't have nipples at all, and they must be wearing jock straps, because real men wearing skin-tight clothing without support underneath, everything is visible on them.
The females are typically rendered in a sexually-on-display way in comics and in society in general far more often than the males are. That's not controversial; it's widely been discussed and examined, by women. Of course lots of men don't care about that and say it isn't happening or it’s no big deal, etc., because it's to their benefit that it remains, that women remain as the default sex objects in society and that men never become the same. That largely keeps them in the boardroom, and women largely out of it, except maybe through forced programs that can do more harm than good.
I'd probably only rarely complain about the way females are too often rendered in comics and shown in movies if the males were given equal sexualized treatment. Show me all the male parts in full--I'm a straight woman; naked men are my favorite thing in the Universe. Why don't I get to see what I want too? Why's it almost always the straight men who get that?
How about NO ONE'S sexualized in general interest, non-p-rn movies and comics, which sexualization of women I've seen being done in comics rated ages 9 and up! Again, high-cut suits on women with their l-abia/v-aginal skin visible in comics rated children's age and up. Disgraceful. And sexist.
But those women are actually correct to be worried, in my opinion and experience. I refuse to conform as a woman artist of whatever kinds of art, and my work remains on the bottom in society, in visibility and success. I and my work have been so far underground all these decades, I’m forever melting at the Earth’s core. (Or maybe compacting.) However, I think that if I ever weakened and sold out, my husband would never stop sneering at me. He has difficulty liking women (and men) who are stereotypes and wimps.
I’ve read a lot of comics over my lifetime, and unfortunately the women in them have been and still are frequently rendered in a sexualized way and like sex objects, like with their nipples and breast shapes visible through their clothing, including while they're superhero-ing. Apparently, none of them wear bras while doing all sorts of extreme fighting. And don't get me started on the bare l-a-bia and v-aginal skin visible in some comics with women in high-cut suits; I nearly canned my DCIU subscription because when I tried to write the word l-abia on a private folder called “no good because l-abia are visible,” so I'd know which comics to never try again and which artists to avoid, DC put asterisks for the word’s letters!
So showing women's g-enitals drawn in a comic is okay, but writing the biological term for them isn't? I only hyphenate in my posts online because sickos do internet searches, and I don't want that to lead to what I'm saying. DC probably has an adult-language filter on the DCIU site, but apparently no “standards filter” on partial n-udity for the women characters in comics.
In comparison, all the superhero-ing men in tights--the specific shapes of the separate parts of their genitals are never showing through their clothing; neither are their nipples. Apparently, they don't have nipples at all, and they must be wearing jock straps, because real men wearing skin-tight clothing without support underneath, everything is visible on them.
The females are typically rendered in a sexually-on-display way in comics and in society in general far more often than the males are. That's not controversial; it's widely been discussed and examined, by women. Of course lots of men don't care about that and say it isn't happening or it’s no big deal, etc., because it's to their benefit that it remains, that women remain as the default sex objects in society and that men never become the same. That largely keeps them in the boardroom, and women largely out of it, except maybe through forced programs that can do more harm than good.
I'd probably only rarely complain about the way females are too often rendered in comics and shown in movies if the males were given equal sexualized treatment. Show me all the male parts in full--I'm a straight woman; naked men are my favorite thing in the Universe. Why don't I get to see what I want too? Why's it almost always the straight men who get that?
How about NO ONE'S sexualized in general interest, non-p-rn movies and comics, which sexualization of women I've seen being done in comics rated ages 9 and up! Again, high-cut suits on women with their l-abia/v-aginal skin visible in comics rated children's age and up. Disgraceful. And sexist.