Archive for September 18th, 2009

Now, I’m not trying to upset anyone here. Equal rights are an important thing, but so is femininity, and sometimes feminists and others can take an issue too far.

Women in comics has carried with it controversy since the first appearances of a female character on the page, and there will probably always be dissenters saying women are poorly or unfairly portrayed. In the past, those types of accusations may have even been true, but this is a new age of comics. For every finger pointing at exploitation of women, I can point a finger right back at how that same image or character is empowering, or has an empowering counterpart. Every fashion magazine on the rack has more negative effect on women than a single comic book character.

My examples, friends.
 
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