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eschergirls:

brokenlanguage submitted this link.

Technically (even if it’s by a professional) this is fan art, so this isn’t about mocking anatomy or anything, and the anatomy is quite good.  I just think it’s sad and telling that “turning XYZ into superheroines” has come to mean turning them into “voluptuous,  Art Nouveau-inspired pin-up girls” and putting them in Star Sapphire-esque costumes (with their butts turned at us.)

A girls’ tv show with heroes meant to inspire girls turned into human superheroes = pin-up girls for hetero adult men.  -_-  It’s not this particular set that is really an issue (since it’s meant to be sexy fan art), it’s just that this is sadly indicative of basically how hand in hand “meant for sexy first and hero second” goes with “superheroine.”  You see it in Chris Hart’s how-to-draw books, in the interviews with artists like Greg Land or Rob Liefeld, and even in the way Ed Benes constructs his panels, sacrificing story-telling for butt shots.

There’s a difference between nurses who happen to be sexy, and the sexy nurse fetish you find in porn, where the outfit hits some of the notes of a nurses outfit, but is really meant to be sexual and the nurse part is merely the flavour of the sexual fantasy.  If a sexy nurse in porn is checking the temperature of a patient, they’d be bending and moving in a way that is more about showing us her sexy bits and less about checking the temperature of a patient.

And that’s the same thing with complaints about women in superhero comics, that they’re not superheroes who happen to be sexy, and happen to look good in their outfits, it’s that quite often, they’re a sexual fantasy (for a specific subset of hetero men) first and foremost, who happen to have trappings of superhero stuff.

Edit: This isn’t a criticism of that particular art set (as I said, it’s meant to be sexy fan art, and the anatomy is decent), it’s a jumping off point to the way we see superheroines, and what that seems to mean in mainstream comic book culture, that when many of the creators of superhero comics think “superheroine” it’s not “heroic kick butt chick” first, but “ooh, I can draw boob windows, sexy armor, sexy poses.”

abaldwin360:

Freedom of Speech

Every time a public figure makes a statement (or several statements) filled with hateful bile and faces backlash, the first thing you hear from them and anyone who supports their hate is “Freedom of Speech”. It happened with Hank Williams Jr. and it’s…

This this this.

kileyrae:

Rick Santorum told a gay man in Fulton, Missouri Friday afternoon that he didn’t deserve the “privilege” of marriage because his same-sex relationship does not “benefit” society in the same way that opposite-sex marriage does. Marriage, Santorum explained is an “intrinsic good” in which gay and lesbian people should not be allowed to partake in.

Things that don’t benefit society:

• Rick Santorum running for president.
• Rick Santorum talking. 
• Rick Santorum.