Yes, it's happened again... colour me unsurprised

[eumelia]

Hey, remember the Mary-Jane Fiasco?

Well, it started a few days ago here (contains images which are NSFW) at Pink Raygun.

I've since read many, many commentaries on this thanks to fangirls_attack and I really didn't know what to add myself.
As often happens when living in a time-zone far away from the hub, I kinda missed the initial brouhaha of the Wonder Woman Body Paint Job.

Let me first state that I don't think porn is inherently bad, just like I don't think the sex industry is inherently bad.
Let me tell you what I do think is bad:
Exploitation and Objectification.
Yes, friends it's same old, same old once again and still, still it won't get into people thick heads that Women, especially Super Heroine Women are not sexual objects.
They can and usually are sexy, but they are not sexual.

Why do feminist and in this case the feminist fangrrls have to re-iterate this point time and time again!
Is it really a novelty?
Is it really so difficult to understand that women's bodies are not fucking separate from their brains and personality!.

Oh and yes, I take offense to the fact that Wonder Woman, the female Super Heroine, one of the Big DC Three, has been reduced, by Playboy, into a body paint.
It in fact, infuriates me!

Comments

[ariss-tenoh.livejournal.com]

Seeing as Wonder Woman as bullet/laser proof bracelets and faster-than-human instincts she doesn't need protective gear, like Batman.

If you're going to use that argument about her not needing protective gear, why does Superman wear an outfit that covers all his body then when he's pretty much indestructible? And please, it's not because he needs a disguise since that doesn't sound convincing. Now that you mention it, I can't recall offhand a comic super hero who shows as much skin as the female ones.

I'm sure there's a female readership, I used to read comics too, but we're not the main target being catered to.

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

No doubt females show more skin in comics, seeing as comic books are a mirror of real life, like almost every medium, but the medium here isn't the problem, it's the message.
In fact it isn't even the same medium we're talking about, like in many cases of traveling through one medium to another something is altered and lost, and in this case the power, strength and character of Diana is thrown out the window when she is reduced to body paint on a playboy model.

T&A isn't what Diana represents no matter how the pencilists draw and colour her.

Most comic book readers, me included, don't mind or even care about the way the costumes are designed, one could argue that female superheros wear revealing outfits in order to throw off their (usually) male enemies, that's interpretation, and that's part of the fun.

[ariss-tenoh.livejournal.com]

one could argue that female superheros wear revealing outfits in order to throw off their (usually) male enemies, that's interpretation, and that's part of the fun.

*blinks*
If you meant that seriously then I'm sorry for laughing, but that's the best "interpretation" I've heard to date for female costumes.

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

No, no, that's okay, you can laugh, it is amusing.

I've often thought Catwoman dressed like a Dominatrix merely to throw Batman off his guard, because clearly... the man has issues :)