The past is prologue ([info]nemoren) wrote,
@ 2008-12-31 02:39:00
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Wait, show me sultry again
The Wizard Guide to drawing superhero anatomy.
Check it out!

I was several pages in before I realized something was up, but oh, I still wanted to believe.
Unfortunately the original is reproduced here.

Admittedly I am late to this party, and superheroes, game characters and the like aren't really my bailiwick. Admittedly, that itself has something to do with how nauseating these fantasy genres are. And no, by far, no part of me wants to see the objectification reversed, for the love of god, just as no part of me wants to go catch the Chippendales.
I link it merely because of the little bit of balance it restores to the psychic universe. Sort of like this.*




*Or rather, like that would, except the sexual spectacle here is still, as ever, intended for male viewers. Which is why models of female objectification** are so seldom coherent when hypothetically reversed.
**this.



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[info]mordicai
2008-12-31 03:31 pm UTC (link)
I mean-- there IS plenty of Beefcake in comics-- Nightwing, especially-- & there are plenty of avenues where crap like Ed Benes doesn't fly. Of course, I like mythology of most stripes, & capes ain't no different from Gilgamesh or Beowulf or whoever. That said, yeah, there are a bunch of fucked up assumptions in mainstream portrayals.

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