Today in Bookmark This: Sexism in Comics

io9 | 10 Stupid Arguments People Use To Defend Comic Book Sexism

Naturally the io9 piece references The HawkEye Initiative to illustrate its points. The comments thread is full of links to relevant commentary too, although sometimes that’s happening in response to the inevitable naynaysayers.

3 thoughts on Today in Bookmark This: Sexism in Comics

I never actually read comics so I never knew how bad women are drawn.

tigtog says:

September 20, 2014 at 6:32 am

Well, it’s #NotAllComicArtists, but there’s a strong cadre of impossible anatomy artists whose fanbois keep on saying how much better they understand female anatomy than those critics pointing out that there’s no room for organs inside that teeny tiny corkscrewed waist so is that why their female characters need such huge breasts (to contain the missing organs)?

But there are more and more artists drawing their comic superheroines with more realistically athletic bodies and more practical costumes. The editors at some comics publishing houses are still greenlighting some of the impossible anatomy art because they’re convinced that’s what they need to do, but there have been some positive changes in recent years.

For more examples, check out Boobs Don’t Work That Way.

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