Quick, someone write a crossover where Girl Genius gives Wonder Girl an anti-gravity demi-cup bra just before the events of this issue of Teen Titans.
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Despite Alan Moore, Art Spiegelman & Neil Gaimanâs best efforts, this kind of shit is why no one takes comic book man-child fanboys seriously.
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Which brings up a larger point: teenage characters in tv shows and movies are commonly played by actors who are in their mid twenties through early thirties. Children, teens, and even adults get their expectations of what a teen should be like from mass media. Perhaps this comic is a reflection of that. I can think of several reasons why there is a preference for using older actors but if we displayed a more realistic image of teens we wouldnât end up with so much blurring of the distinction between them and adults.
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Damn fine point.
Yeah, and I donât buy the whole âbut Girl Genius is a grown woman.â
Sheâs a grown woman
called Girl Genius
this is okay with a crowd that loses their shit when grown women are called girls.
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To give the character the benefit of the doubt, it does look like sheâs had cybernetics installed. Maybe they had a buy one augmentation get one free special?
You mean a comic book puts a hot female image on the cover, because theyâre selling to males who like looking at hot young female bodies?
Shocker!!
And the image is unrealistic - unlike magic lassos. Also wowzers.
I mean, most of the men are also unrealistically fit and hot. That must also be the oppressive patriarchy, right?
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The question that nobody appears interested enough to ask is what physical attributes on comic book covers are most likely to sell more comics? Seems to me thatâs the strongest influence on comic character art. So perhaps any well-meaning social criticism of this art should be more meaningfully directed at the consumers of such art, rather than the producers.
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The main problem is that this is not the natural chest of a large-breasted woman. Those are implants. On a teenaged superheroine. Natural breasts donât have that round shape (sorry, boys). If you donât believe me, check out this excellent tutorial from artist Meghan Hetrick.
Iâll leave it for the experts to hash out.
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Some of you are equivocating;
- a 16-year-old drawn-naked âsupermodelâ in skintight clothing and breast implants
to
- an adult-age fully-clothed character with a distinctly overweight body type
On the basis that they both have large breasts and the latter comic has the word âgirlâ in the title.
Meanwhile, we have someone angrily demanding to know why he canât post pictures of âon topic porn starsâ to the thread.
Itâs ⌠just a nightmare.
EDIT: And of course, no âcomic book guyâ thread is complete without the inane suggestion that muscly skintight superheroes are just as objectified as dysmorphically-rendered women.
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Again,
http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110112054331/batman/images/a/a3/NealAdamsBatman.jpg
This is not what normal human beings look like. To look like this, you have to be on a fairly specific exercise and diet regimen, and not everyone can do it without the aid of steroids. On top of that, you canât stay on that diet for very long.
EDIT: Someoneâs not tired of digging a hole yet.
And of course, no âcomic book guyâ thread is complete without the inane suggestion that muscly skintight superheroes are just as objectified as dysmorphically-rendered women.
http://deafness.answers.com/celebrities/lou-ferrigno-the-deaf-bodybuilder
Inspired by comic book characters.
If you donât think the comic book body type had any influence on this,
you need to do some research into the subject. What comic book reader wants to be a 90 lb. weakling, with the muscle-bound boys wooing their girl away from 'em? Get started on that time-consuming body-wrecking regimen today!
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Now, not only is it appropriate to refer to a grown woman as âgirl,â but now
this is âdistinctly overweight.â
FFS, Rob, really???!?
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Are we supposed to think that 16 year old girls donât have breasts? Or that objectification and exaggerated dymorphism is any more appropriate when itâs about a woman instead of a girl? Which is it? Are girls subjugated by sexuality and women liberated by it? Iâm confused.
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WTF? This is what I âangrily demandedâ:
Sorry, but could you give me some explicit reasoning why you deleted SFW, on-topic pics?
Itâs kind of tough to google up pics of women with head-sized breasts who arenât porn stars.
Now I am angry. Get stuffed, @beschizza.
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The term âdistinctly overweightâ is a sarcastic reference to the fact that Agatha is heavier than the 80 lbs standard normalized by the Teen Titans cover. Your outrage over this, like your suggestion that the title âGirl Geniusâ is an inappropriate description of its heroine, is an affectation to distract from the fact that youâre equivocating the sexualized depiction of a minor-age teen character with one who is presented and depicted as an adult.
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Sorry, Kimmo, you canât post pictures of porn stars, and weâll delete any more of them that you post.
Nuance indeed.
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What, theyâre entirely verboten, persona non grata with the BB community, clothed or not, eh?
I think Iâm getting the picture.
âŚBTW, how about you tone your straw-manning down a notch, huh?
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