I'm not the only one out here doing this now - here's kkglinka's redo spoofing a recent Catwoman cover, and I've seen a couple takes on the Tigra Beatdown* and a couple others, which even in rough form have (along with a grisly/implausible real Red Sonja cover which still doesn't come near the usual objectification/eroticization of violence against ( Read more... )

So I'm thinking about all this justification of drawing/costuming superheroines and villainesses in high heels, and how it's oh-so-crucial to have them be first-and-foremost TEH SEXAYY to appeal to the Hypothetical Straight Male Viewer (who is the only one that matters) and I came up with one of those "if I ran the world" things that would ( Read more... )

Alternate ending to the previous scenario: the foot-presser steps off before you can give them a forceful shove in the lumbar region, and with an unctuous smile says fulsomely (even with overtones of baby-talk), "I'm soooo sorrrryyyyy! Please forgive me! I promise never, ever, EVER to do it again. Okayyy ( Read more... )

Let's say you're at a shindig of some sort - an office holiday party, a department function, the post-lecture refreshments, a gallery opening, a con, any place where there are a lot of other people, most of whom you don't know personally or well, and a lot of milling around ( Read more... )

( The Crossover Fic )

A Comedy in One Act by the Philosopher At Large
who is not Asian or Asian-American, and in addition having no theatre training or experience other than reading lots of plays and occasionally helping out making props and costumes for student productions, is closer culturally to the late 19th-c artists who were inspired by the Floating World ( Read more... )

or, "I am shocked, SHOCKED! to find inappropriate sexualization in comics - of male charas, that is"

Warning: post contains artistic nudity and links to sites containing bawdy humour - oh wait, that last's kind of par for the course, isn't it?

This is actually a post title/subject which I have been meaning to write for a very long time, and have ( Read more... )

(which doesn't, imo, make it any better)

Neil Gaiman: and there’s other stuff... books that I own completely, things like the Anansi Boys or American Gods, where I take enormous pleasure in saying no to people who (pursue the rights). When Anansi Boys first came out, we got a number of very big directors going after it and all of them basically ( Read more... )