""I find it hilarious people keep comparing comics to the porn industry as a *defense*. It makes me feel all possible points have already been made in my favour.""
I was'nt refering to porn I was refering to gay porn, the point I was trying to make is, I don't control it, I'm not the target audience for it, and I am not a fan of it. Therefore it makes perfect sense for me to go onto a message board about it and rant till I'm blue in the face right?
If you as a female reader hate female exploitation in comics, as bad as you seem to, and it's as bad as you make it out to be, why get into a media that had it before you got there, has it currently and will still have it when your gone? Suddenly your going to find reasons to justify your interests right! "Their not ALL like that ", "The books I read don't have it as prevalant as others". So it's not the epidemic your making it out to be really is it, because you accept it, and still get entertainment value from it.
When pro body builders, male and female, compete in tournaments, standing on a stage nearly naked, and oiled up, which sex is being exploited? If I go by the mentality demonstrated on this board the answer would be a unanimous "female", when in fact they BOTH are. When you view superhero comics and see idealistic versions of males and females, BOTH are being exploited, or is it the norm for the men in your neck of the woods to all have six pack abes, 15 inch biceps, can bench press 200 pounds, and wear skin tight body suits?
Yeah, your going to see more cheesecake than beefcake, as women simpily have more erogenous zones to exploit and as I stated many times now, comics....are...a...male....dominated.....field. DC and Marvel don't mind getting your money too, but they aren't targeting you to get it necessarily (at least in their mainstream stuff).
For the record I don't object to (male or female) exploitation. Views and attitudes have varied, but it has been, is, and always will be, apart of our culture and entertainment. Provocative parts and all.
My beef here is the fact that I see a "ban exploitation" banner being waved in the air, but on the back of that banner is a chippendale calendar, making the argument bias and one sided. If your going to damn exploitation, you better be prepared to damn ALL exploitation, not just the stuff that bothers you personally. Your not going to do that though, nor will anyone else, people want what they want.
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Re: Yeah right....
Date: 2006-04-30 01:37 pm (UTC)""You may only be upset about ass shots if you are a fan of them!" That logic is just *beautiful*. Right up there with anything in Catch-22.""
This made up logic you fabricated here is your own, I have no idea what your talking about.
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""I find it hilarious people keep comparing comics to the porn industry as a *defense*. It makes me feel all possible points have already been made in my favour.""
I was'nt refering to porn I was refering to gay porn, the point I was trying to make is, I don't control it, I'm not the target audience for it, and I am not a fan of it. Therefore it makes perfect sense for me to go onto a message board about it and rant till I'm blue in the face right?
If you as a female reader hate female exploitation in comics, as bad as you seem to, and it's as bad as you make it out to be, why get into a media that had it before you got there, has it currently and will still have it when your gone? Suddenly your going to find reasons to justify your interests right! "Their not ALL like that ", "The books I read don't have it as prevalant as others". So it's not the epidemic your making it out to be really is it, because you accept it, and still get entertainment value from it.
When pro body builders, male and female, compete in tournaments, standing on a stage nearly naked, and oiled up, which sex is being exploited? If I go by the mentality demonstrated on this board the answer would be a unanimous "female", when in fact they BOTH are. When you view superhero comics and see idealistic versions of males and females, BOTH are being exploited, or is it the norm for the men in your neck of the woods to all have six pack abes, 15 inch biceps, can bench press 200 pounds, and wear skin tight body suits?
Yeah, your going to see more cheesecake than beefcake, as women simpily have more erogenous zones to exploit and as I stated many times now, comics....are...a...male....dominated.....field. DC and Marvel don't mind getting your money too, but they aren't targeting you to get it necessarily (at least in their mainstream stuff).
For the record I don't object to (male or female) exploitation. Views and attitudes have varied, but it has been, is, and always will be, apart of our culture and entertainment. Provocative parts and all.
My beef here is the fact that I see a "ban exploitation" banner being waved in the air, but on the back of that banner is a chippendale calendar, making the argument bias and one sided. If your going to damn exploitation, you better be prepared to damn ALL exploitation, not just the stuff that bothers you personally. Your not going to do that though, nor will anyone else, people want what they want.