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eumeliaHey, 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![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-syndicated.gif)
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!
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!
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Date: 2008-01-20 03:10 am (UTC)... who was into bondage ^_^. William Marston (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Moulton_Marston) was also a psychologist (he was instrumental in the development of the polygraph) with some interesting theories about the rehabilitation of criminals, and dominance and "loving submission."
Diana was intended to be a strong, powerful woman right from the get go, but there's also been a sexual component to the character all along. There's a reason she features so strongly in a lot of male comics readers' fantasies -- she was supposed to be "an alluring woman stronger than themselves" for men to "submit to."
DC, needless to say, has not always lived up to that (ex: Wonder Woman getting depowered in the 70s).