Well, All-Star Batman and Robin is pretty much a train crash anyway. (see 'Are you retarded or something? I'm the goddamn Batman.')
By this point, I'd hardly be surprised if the latest issue cover was the head of a Nun on a spike next to Poison Ivy making out with Harlequin while the Joker wears a skintight PVC suit and whips them with a riding crop.
Yes, but its not just All-Star Batman and Robin. Most western culture is based around using women as sex objects, and a lot of men I know (not you as far as I know) don't believe it is as widespread as it is.
Anyway, I'm less crazily feminist this week (sorry about last Tuesday...) so I'll not get into a big rant about this.
Agreed, in the main. I have some quite specific and detailed opinions on the concept of sexual objectification which it isn't worth spewing about here.
Just wanted to point out that the cover in question is the result of a particularly bad combination of author and title. It's pretty damn rare* to see a cover that focusses in on sexual characteristics to the extent that the character as a whole isn't actually bloody visible!
*I mean within the mainstream of Batman/Supes/Spidey et al. I'm certain there are niche markets within comics for which this wouldn't be unusual.
I'm not going to argue with the fact that that's an exceptionally bad case. However when female are shown, it is generally in a way that shows off sexual characteristics in a way that generally isn't done for the male characters.
That's arguable, and a number of subtleties and additional factors come into making such a judgement, some of which might not be instantly obvious if (as I suspect) you are making the judgement from outside the comic-reading community. I don't collect much (Planetary and Sandman Mystery Theatre) but my ear is never far from the ground.
If you're interested in hearing more of my opinion, fire off an email my way (I'll take no offence if you don't!). For LJ purposes, suffice to say that I forgot to mention how hilarious the spoof comic covers in the original link are. :)
By this point, I'd hardly be surprised if the latest issue cover was the head of a Nun on a spike next to Poison Ivy making out with Harlequin while the Joker wears a skintight PVC suit and whips them with a riding crop.
-Dave
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Anyway, I'm less crazily feminist this week (sorry about last Tuesday...) so I'll not get into a big rant about this.
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Just wanted to point out that the cover in question is the result of a particularly bad combination of author and title. It's pretty damn rare* to see a cover that focusses in on sexual characteristics to the extent that the character as a whole isn't actually bloody visible!
*I mean within the mainstream of Batman/Supes/Spidey et al. I'm certain there are niche markets within comics for which this wouldn't be unusual.
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If you're interested in hearing more of my opinion, fire off an email my way (I'll take no offence if you don't!). For LJ purposes, suffice to say that I forgot to mention how hilarious the spoof comic covers in the original link are. :)
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