And well done her and well done world and well done comics! :D
And I understand completely what you mean; I adore Amanda Connor's run on Power Girl - I think it hits a brilliant tone to include cheesecake aspects humorously and to write a character who would really wear that boob window while laughing at the fact that she has a boob window, but someone flipping through that with no context, just having a look at what's in it, is just gonna see yet another scantily clad woman semi-regularly ending up in situations where people are making jokes about her boobs. And given the number of times I've been told, "No, no, you don't get it, this is ironic, this is making fun of that stuff!" and I have checked it out and been like, "No, no it isn't, dude, it's just saying it is so you can feel better about it," I totally get why that's a...bad gateway into the medium?
And now I sound like I'm disagreeing with you or something, which I'm fairly sure I'm not - because I do know Empowered, though I haven't read most of it! - I'm just sort of...monologuing my thoughts!
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Date: 2012-03-01 11:46 am (UTC)And I understand completely what you mean; I adore Amanda Connor's run on Power Girl - I think it hits a brilliant tone to include cheesecake aspects humorously and to write a character who would really wear that boob window while laughing at the fact that she has a boob window, but someone flipping through that with no context, just having a look at what's in it, is just gonna see yet another scantily clad woman semi-regularly ending up in situations where people are making jokes about her boobs. And given the number of times I've been told, "No, no, you don't get it, this is ironic, this is making fun of that stuff!" and I have checked it out and been like, "No, no it isn't, dude, it's just saying it is so you can feel better about it," I totally get why that's a...bad gateway into the medium?
And now I sound like I'm disagreeing with you or something, which I'm fairly sure I'm not - because I do know Empowered, though I haven't read most of it! - I'm just sort of...monologuing my thoughts!