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Check out the empowerment on that !  

40Deuce 46M
4634 posts
4/15/2012 8:30 am

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4/16/2012 11:53 am

Check out the empowerment on that !



Female superhero costumes are the comic industry's "No Cooties" signs : They prove that the people who designed them think about girls (a lot) but don't really know how they work and are making sure it stays that way . The only "strong" in many "strong female comic book characters" are the oblique muscles required to point their ass and boobs in the same direction .

Power Girl is one of my favorite characters (even though her super name is super lame) but come on ? Boob window ? Charged with making a female Superman , Power Girl's costume designer's only thoughts were "breasts" and "done." They'd already given Supergirl a miniskirt (and as a consequence, the entire population of Metropolis got a panty shot). With Power Girl , they upped the ante and opened a tit-window . Most<b> spandex </font></b>heroes have a symbol on their chest summarizing their character , and so does Power Girl: an empty hole full of cleavage .

There is no counterargument . Fans and writers have tried to explain Power Girl's breast-viewing port several times , and each theory is more ridiculously unsupported than the breasts they're attempting to justify . The most common (and ridiculous) explanation is "I am strong and empowered and therefore love being naked and stared at ." You know , the same reason Superman flies around in a thong . One writer claims it's to show that she's healthy , so we can only be grateful that Krypton never discovered gynecology . Another is the idea of distracting villains , because when you mainly fight robots and aliens and can punch through a tank , your best weapon is clearly nudity .

DC has made it very clear that they consider the rest of Power Girl a superpowered breast-delivery service (Faster than a speeding bullet ! Bigger than a human head !) They once changed her entire back story from solar superpowered alien to magical Atlantean and back again , and the only thing that stayed constant was the hole in the costume .

Now , I will admit that if I had superpowers I would never wear clothes again , but that's me . Back when I had a comic shop a friend and I had this argument all the time . His position was people want want that want and there's no harm in giving it to them . Disagree . People want a lot a things that are bad for both themselves and society . I realize that being concerned about the depiction of women in comics is pretty silly in the grand scheme of things but it bothers me , what can I say ?

And now the punchline ;

On day Superman is flying around Metroplis and he sees Wonder Woman laying out naked on the roof of a building . He circles around a couple times and thinks to himself "Man , I got to get me some of that Wonder pussy" . So he uses his superspeed , flies down and fucks her , and is gone again in a split second . Wonder Woman says "What was that ?" and the Invisible Woman says "I don't know but the back of my head is all sticky ."

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GimmeAThrill 55M  
24635 posts
4/15/2012 11:05 am

I remember miming out that joke with my fingers.
[br[So, in a nutshell, the comic industry, specifically the costume superheros products, are contributing to the body image issues that women face today, huh?

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40Deuce 46M
5725 posts
4/16/2012 11:53 am

    Quoting GimmeAThrill:
    I remember miming out that joke with my fingers.
    [br[So, in a nutshell, the comic industry, specifically the costume superheros products, are contributing to the body image issues that women face today, huh?
Of course , I mean what media (other than AM radio) has more influence than comic books ?

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