Beta's rejoice in feminist takeover of the classic comic book medium. Estrogen inside.

Clauderoughly · 2014-02-05T18:25:42+00:00

Yeah, this won't last very long.

For those of you that are too young to remember, they tried this crap back in the 90's and it failed miserablly.

Women don't buy comics. They love geek culture, and they love all the attention it gets them but they don't read comics in any signifigant numbers.

Once they start seeing that they aren't making money by ignoring their core audence, they'll go back to business as usual.

anotherthrowawaybiff · 2014-02-05T16:07:11+00:00

You can almost see the milk oozing from their man tits. Fucking beta nerds, thanks for taking yourselves completely out of contention for the world's available pussy.

The_smartest_man_evr · 2014-02-05T16:31:30+00:00

Is the introduction of less sexy female characters going to hook lots of new female readers? I don't know, I'm not a girl. But if there's one sure way to get new, young teenage male readers, it's with sexy female characters.

through_a_ways · 2014-02-05T19:39:13+00:00

Estrogen inside

dammit, I lol'd

mordanus · 2014-02-05T17:18:13+00:00

I love it when people do this kind of blatant stupidity. There is a reason people say "sex sells" and saying it shouldn't won't change profits. I love watching people invest tons of money in a failing business plan. It just proves our point even more.

MahlerNinth · 2014-02-05T16:08:19+00:00

Feminist comic books = comic books with zero humor.

Women, especially feminists, have little sense of humor and no ability to actually portray the world around them without putting themselves as the center of it all.

B_Campbell · 2014-02-05T19:32:49+00:00

Hey here's a thought. Let women draw comics if they want to how they want to and expand the market. If people want this they'll buy them. No need to wussify the current successful model.

rebuildingMyself · 2014-02-05T19:35:26+00:00

No medium is safe from the penis - envy of feminists.

Sufferix · 2014-02-05T19:49:23+00:00

I think we need to do some categorical analysis because we seem to often derail into a circlejerk like the rest of Reddit, even though we're generally not wrong.

In terms of business, the desexualization of female characters is stupid. Someone else dropped the (true) sex sells cliche, and I can never fault a company for making money in any legitimate way. I've heard, but not seen, of a study where they catered television to men and women. A large portion of men would not watch the women-oriented shows or purchase the women-oriented products, but the majority of women would still watch and purchase for men-oriented programming. If this is true across the board, why would any business ever cater to the female demographic? It's just a loss of profit.

However, let's limit ourselves to story content. Some of the outfits don't make any sense. Someone else brings up the inverse relationship between amount of clothing and power in anime, and it's relevant but we're more focusing on American comics. There's no functional reason for Psylocke to dress like she does, the only excuse I can make is that she's damaged from being raped (not sure if that's even canon) but I don't give the vast majority of comic book writers credit to even be considering that. Wonder Woman is in the same boat. She's not invincible or immortal or invulnerable and she's been a warrior all her life. You would think that she would wear something that actually protects... any part of her body during combat--oh, she got a head crown right?

These betas are crying over outward criticism of their hobby, mostly because some feminist twat probably ridiculed them for looking at too sexy cartoons that she could never compete with, however this doesn't make the assertion that some of the character designs are fucking dumpster retarded in terms of their role and styles within the story.

Let's just have Martin write everything ever before he dies. His portrayal of both sexes is accurate (for the era/genre he writes) and more compelling than any of the other equally mainstream stuff.

Yo, this shit is longer than I thought and doesn't accurately reflect my lack of care for the subject.

RedBigMan · 2014-02-05T16:27:32+00:00

Aren't super female protagonists and antagonists supposed to be over the top scantily clad and attractive?

So tell me again how they are going to sell comics when all the female characters look like Amy Farah Fowler? Are they all going to be sexually repressed, desperate, needy and have self esteem issues?

ohsweetword · 2014-02-05T16:24:56+00:00

"Agreed entirely.I've always loved the concept of psylocke, but i can't bring myself to read issues where she's a focus. Here whole design is just embarrassingly juvenile and needlessly sexualized. Same goes for wonder woman. Cool hero and i'd really like to read more about her but the 'sex appeal' of her character is powerfully embarrassing."

How can these losers handle the concept of a real woman's ass and tits if they can't even handle looking at fantasy women in comics?

And the idea that they are ashamed to be reading comics because of the portrayal.... apologizing for what they should see as a simple escapism, it's beyond pathetic. I guess they think some girl will appreciate them for their "moral" stance and gift them with attention.

MockingDead · 2014-02-05T20:25:56+00:00

Meh. I never read superhero comics. Let them take over. See how fast the money drains.

SigmaMu · 2014-02-05T20:57:45+00:00

Obviously the movies have completely outstripped paper comics in relevance and profitability. If Marvel wants to really put their money where there mouth is, let's see them drop a superheroine movie, you know, like Catwoman or Elektra.

BruceIsTheBatman · 2014-02-05T21:22:36+00:00

It's not so much that Feminists are taking over traditional comics, it's the ones who are trying to turn comics into more of a respectable story-telling art form.

DisNameInUseByMe · 2014-02-05T19:57:37+00:00

This may be downvoted, but I believe both sides are missing the point.

How a comic character is drawn shouldn't be about feminism and politics. It should be about telling the story.

Is the character a reserved, conservative woman? Then yes, it would be appropriate to portray her as modestly dressed and not overly sexy.

Is the character a bit of a seductress and/or does she use her sexuality to her advantage? Then obviously it makes sense to portray her as scantily clad with tight fitting clothes and good tits.

When you bring politics in to things like this is just fucks it up, and although the feminists may have somewhat of a point (provided that they're accurate in stating that female characters are drawn overly provocatively - I dunno, haven't read one in a while), inevitably they're just going to fuck it up by going too far and the most important part - the effectiveness of telling the story - will be totally forgotten in lieu of some politically correct BS.

santaincarnate · 2014-02-05T23:52:53+00:00

There's only one woman-centred comic you need to read

2014-02-06T01:16:24+00:00

Oh no 13 yr old boys wont be semen-gluing the pages of their comics together as much as before...so?

2014-02-06T06:12:50+00:00

TIL why Marvel started sucking.

Oh well. I mostly read horror comics anyway.

ohsweetword · 2014-02-05T17:07:08+00:00

Aren't comic books kind of a loser thing to begin with? Or am I brainwashed by media to think so..

life036 · 2014-02-05T20:53:26+00:00

Meh, to be fair, I'd probably agree with them if I cared about comics.

If I want tits and ass I'll watch a porno. I wouldn't want cheap, lame-ass side-boob teases that add nothing to the comic.

Title	Beta's rejoice in feminist takeover of the classic comic book medium. Estrogen inside.
Author	ohsweetword
Upvotes	31
Comments	57
Date	February 5, 2014 3:08 PM UTC (12 years ago)
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