'fat' superheroine contest and pictures of real women

[starlite_gone]

This is interesting.

So I was putzing around dreamsformortar's page and saw an entry about a 'Fat' Superheroine Contest which, if you follow that link, you'll see started when an artist was told that the following Batwoman drawing she submitted was too fat to be a superhero:

Comments

[lisa_thecat]

None of those fat superheroines impressed me. I've seen much better art with the same subject and some very cool fat Wonder Women, my fav being this one:

[starlite_gone]

lol that wonder woman is awesome. She looks so happy XD

I have to admit I was hoping for some more variations in designs of the superheroines, both in style/clothing and body shape. But at the same time it's nice that so many people wanted to participate. There are actually a lot of entries that have been going through rounds so if you go to that person's main DA page you can see the ones that can currently be voted on, and then I think there are more to come. The link I gave only had a small amount as does her main page. I didn't look around her page more but I think I understand that there is a folder somewhere with all the entries. That being said, I did see a number of people complain about how skimpy/sexualized the women were still, and I noticed that some of them weren't really all that fat at all. I think the idea was more for them to be normal body types of whatever version a person imagined, and not necessarily distinctly overweight although that would also be okay. Hopefully this contest continues and there are more and more refined entries as it goes :)

By the way, if you want to be disgusted by comic book art of women but also see how people respond to it by fixing the completely ridiculous poses and body styles, visit http://eschergirls.tumblr.com/

[lisa_thecat]

I like my Wonder Woman with pizza slice - the lines are awesome, nicely stylized and indeed she looks happy. It's not about being fat or slim, it's just a cool pic. I am not a fan of comics at all and it vaguely amuses me to see those ridiculously sexualized poses, but it's not something to raise the feminist in me. Mostly I confess I think of the people who masturbate to cartoons and it's one of those things that makes me giggle on the inside.

[starlite_gone]

Yeah I really like the lines and coloring on it. Also the pose is awesome XD

Comic books... I honestly mostly just completely disregard and occasionally am exasperated by the ridiculous poses and body shapes of the women. But since I rarely read comic books I hadn't thought too much about it-- or rather, I thought they worst they did was just make them always super busty and stupidly sexy-sexualized in dumb clothing for their jobs-- but then I saw Escher Girls and realized that they do some REALLY ridiculous things! Like, bodies and poses that couldn't physically exist in reality.

lol well better to be entertained than upset XD