Can you figure out what's wrong with this picture of a half-naked 16 year-old girl with breast implants the size of her head?

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Thank you - new aphorism for my armoury!

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Mama is common to many many languages including Chinese and Malay. I figure it’s the easiest thing for babies to pronounce.

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Thank you for pointing this stuff out. (It sure is weird that it’s still controversial.)

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[quote=“IpoNokaoi, post:248, topic:29080”]
Women, when initially meeting her, often were outright mean.I cannot mansplain why.[/quote]
I could give it a shot, but instead I’ll self-censor for fear of being automatically labelled a misogynist.

Men, do you really like fake tits?

Not me, they’re less like actual tits then.

Are surgeons just really, really bad sculptors?

AFAIK it’s a fairly inescapable phenomenon when the implant makes up most of the bulk; scar tissue forms around the implant and tends to tighten, exaggerating the boundary, possibly even forming creases.

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The universality of ‘mama’ and ‘dada’ or the like is a very interesting topic.

IIRC there’s quite an enlightening vid on the subject floating around; the likely search term I can’t remember, but someone will mention it when I say booboo and kiki.

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This is the way to draw boys attention…

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As the article’s author points out, just over half the fans of the TV show on Facebook are female, and she calls out DC for pandering to the 18-39 male demographic without a thought.

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Spoken like a man who has never read a woman’s magazine, or even opened one up. What “women’s magazines” do you speak of : Ms. ? Vogue ? Bust ?

WTF ?

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Especially when you take into account this kind of thing.

Look at the different way Hugh Jackman is portrayed for men versus women. Men in comics are “eye candy for women”? No. Just … no.

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This, just this, I mean I don’t read boing boing comments much, but seriously having a WTF moment and will not be doing so again

I am just really really glad I didn’t have a daughter and you can be sure my son is going to learn some manners

I am a man, I like women, I find this representation of girls unacceptable, I find the treatment of the articles author unacceptable. I end reading this thread fucking ashamed I am a man - what the actual fuck.

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You’re deliberately and disingenuously misinterpreting his statements and painting him as some kind of pervert because he’s providing an argument/opinion you don’t like. Funny because a similar tactic is used by those criticizing Jannelle Asselin.

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The ridiculousness of what’s going on behind this piece is astounding… in no particular order:

  1. That it seems to be the norm to threaten or belittle women who comment on comics. That this particular writer is erudite, restrained and very well versed in her topic only adds to my bafflement and disappointment of the community.
  2. That the artwork ever go past the “how about this, guys?” phase of production. It really does make it quite clear how non-progressive (or should that be un-progressive?) comic books as a medium have been. Seriously - you’d think that the 70s, 80s and 90s never happened.
  3. That it seems OK to apply this style of sexualisation to underage characters. In any other medium there would be outrage, supported by the media and public opinion. In this medium it just seems to be par for the course.
  4. That the mainstream audience actually find this ridiculous over-stylization and sexual objectification attractive. Sure, I can understand that it might appeal to smaller sections of a community and I’m very much a “whatever floats your boat” kind of guy (within certain bounds of reason). It just bemuses me that this is so mainstream.

I guess I’m just baffled about where the genre and its advocates are right now compared to pretty much every other genre.

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I figured that it was the best the artist could do, trying to draw breasts.
Legs don’t look as mishappen as hers either.
Maybe the artist should be a plastic surgeon instead. He has enough talent for that.

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Even if that were remotely true, it couldn’t be more than 51/49.

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Alan Moore you mean the guy who has teenage girls graphically raped in nearly everything he has ever written?

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That’s because they are constantly deleting them.
Which is also mentioned either somewhere in that article or in a followup article.

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Coming EXTREMELY late to the party, I just want to say that there’s a certain rhetorical cliche used in The Daily Beast article that gets under my skin:

After criticizing the new ‘Teen Titans’ cover, Janelle Asselin was name-called and threatened with rape. The worst part? No one is surprised.

Emphasis mine. The fact that no one is surprised is awful, and inexcusable, but I think the worst part must be the threats of rape themselves.

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I think they intended an implication that “no one is surprised” because it’s so common that when women challenge sexism, they’re threatened with rape.

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Oh, I remember you - you’re inclined to kneejerk harder than Rob.

Wow, what a well-balanced remark; a chip on both shoulders, and one balanced on your nose as well. Bravo! Bravissimo! I’d call for an encore, but I get the feeling that you’re going to keep going until the thread is closed, regardless.

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Actually, the anime-inspired Starfire is, to me, the definitive Starfire and she doesn’t look anything like that:

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