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[xoverau]

So, buddleia linked ratcreature's scan post about how to draw female comic characters. If you have been awake at some point since nineteen fifty-three, you will find it offensive.

Afterward, amandazillah and I had this sultry, cute discussion:

Comments

[normalhumanbein]

See, the reaction most guys I know have to the 'super women' is "Holy shit, that is not right."

Know what's even more annoying? When they do draw a realistic woman, only to have her turn into some kind of balloon-breasted gazelle as soon as she takes her clothes off (although this could be one of the strange powers that a Real Woman has over the common or garden variety. Seriously, since when was "average" such an insult?)

[xoverau]

I'm the same way about male superheroes, though. I look at them and I'm like, that's just...that--HE COULD NOT MOVE LIKE THAT!

And I could even dismiss the actual drawings of males and females as typical of an unrealistic medium that aims its books at adolescents--the guys pose flexed and half-clothed or with their fists upthrust, their manhoods carefully shadowed and outlined, and the women pose in C or S shapes with their nipples hard and their clothes clinging--without the commentary and instruction that accompanied them. The artist draws the male figures to be hyperexaggerated versions of the male ideal, and thus appealing to women and gay men--but to treat that as nonexistent and spend pages detailing how you need to draw women so everyone who sees them wants to nail them? Spork!

[normalhumanbein]

*proffers the cast iron Spork of Justice*

Your time has come.

[xoverau]

Nifty!

...but I can't spork anyone because my back is in this funny S shape.

[normalhumanbein]

Shit! Um...try a corset? They seem to have a wide range of the see-through, slashed-to-the-navel variety, which would obviously correct your posture in no time.

[xoverau]

How big is the spork? Um...because my arms are small and curvy and lack definition.

[normalhumanbein]

Ah. Clearly you are not worthy enough to bear the Spork of justice, feeble woman. Be gone with you! (and if you'd like to turn against us and begin working for the dark side, we won't hold it against you. We know how you girls are, with your estrogen and...stuff).

[xoverau]

I thought about it. I would get bigger tits and tighter clothes out of the gig. But then I decided I don't look good in scarlet lipstick.

[normalhumanbein]

No-one does. Luckily, with the huge tights and clingfilm corset, no-one's ever going to look at your face.

[xoverau]

Now, now. Amanda looks good in scarlet lipstick. And naked.

[normalhumanbein]

And therefore must be destroyed.

Hooray for Amanda. Give her a prize.

[xoverau]

She already has one! Naked!