#sexism in comics

[fixing-bad-comic-art]

Gave her thicker limbs and more realistic proportions; fixed up her costume so it doesn’t look painted on; gave her some actual shoes instead of whatever footie-pajama thing she had going on (campbell does that often); and tried to make her facial expression slightly more serious and not so cookie-cutter.

submitted by @the-beacons-of-minas-tirith

#submission #natasha romanov #natasha romanoff #black widow #marvel #marvel comics #j scott campbell #misogyny in comics #sexism in comics #bad comic art #fixing bad comic art #fixes #not my fix

[benbamboozled]

Wild to me that Jason Todd and Barbara Gordon both had their respective Joker-caused traumas happen IN THE SAME IRL YEAR, that in-universe both of them were canonically attacked to get at Batman specifically rather than attacked due to anything about themselves (okay well Babs was attacked to get at Gordon to get at Batman, but, you know), thag out-of-universe they were crippled/killed off as publicity stunts…

…and yet DC refused to let them interact once Jason was resurrected and STILL refuses to let them share page-time unless it’s in some way romantic…because there’s absolutely no way that a man and a woman could legitimately bond over shared experiences without it being in some way romantic, right?

#Jason Todd #Barbara Gordon #A Death in the Family #The Killing Joke #sexism in comics #it’s just sexism all the way down baybeeee. #this makes me feel angry! #ALSO DC IGNORING SUCH A WEALTH OF POTENTIAL CHARACTER INTERACTION INFURIATES ME!!! #you don’t have to tell ‘Batman beats up his kids for the 50th time’ like you could tell a different story!!!

[armed-with-a-waffle-iron]

When fan uproar (and Grant Morrison) returned Stephanie Brown's Robin memorial to the Bat Cave

Kick ass, take names, love purple and hate Dan Didio.

Batman #673, Batman #677

#stephanie brown #robin #batman and robin #the spoiler #batgirl #batcave #grant morrison #anti dan didio #batfam #sexism in comics

[fangirlingindefinitely]

Doodled this as a lazy contribution to the Hawkeye Initiative :) I may have created a monster and unleashed it on the internet but whatever

#star wars #star wars fanart #fanart #aayla secura #sexualization #comics #anakin skywalker #hawkeye initiative #sexualization in comics #doodle #star wars doodles #darth vader #the hawkeye initiative #sexism in comics #oversexualization #star wars comics #revenge of the sith #rots anakin

[cinegeek237]

Random Captain Marvel Rant

Note this is a positive rant because I love her.

Women usually are only allowed to have positions of power if it's in the shadow of men. Esp in comics. It's even under the male counterparts title which is evocative of the mysonist tradition of women' taking their male partners name in marriage thus erasing an aspect of their identity. The very identity of women superheroes are these shadows of men... supergirl, batgirl, lady thor, she-hulk, Kate Bishop becomes Hawkeye. Captain Marvel falls under this in the comics but is her own person in the MCU and that is extremely powerful. More than that she is one of the most powerful characters in the MCU and didn't get her powers at all from a man, and further doesn't fall into the crazy overpowered woman trope like the literal image on tvtropes.org  (Wanda which is a whole other sigh thing). It's important to see women can have power independent of men... esp when comic books have historically propagated this disgusting sexist trope. The Captain Marvel movie does this.

Further, Carol Danvers is told over and over that emotions get in the way; make her weak. This is something real women face every damn day and is hugely oppressive to them... esp in the workforce and in politics, which often bars them (and female voices) from legislation and policy making positions. Seeing Carol come to terms with her past and taking her power back from her literal oppressors and being her own emotional, human, independent, badass is very important for girls, women, (AND boys, men, and people in general) to see. Emotions are not a weakness.

I love that Carol doesn't fight Yon-Rogg. She doesn't have to. She's better than him. She doesn't have to prove herself, because he's a waste of her time. OH and unlike DC with Wonder Woman.... she isn't dating a dude either... YES women can exist without a love interest. F*cking this!

Lastly, Captain Marvel is a fun 90's buddy cop movie between Brie Larson and Samuel L Jackson. A woman and a black man. Do you know how rare it is to have a movie with no white male leads? Like the only thing I can compare it to is Rush Hour. Like all these buddy cop movies are white guy with X type of partner - X being a black man, younger white guy, a dog, ect. 

#captain marvel #sexism in movies #sexism in comics #women heroes #mcu

[fortressofserenity]

Uncomfortable

While I do think that Frank Cho is a talented artist, whenever he draws beautiful women in such situations it's like he simultaneously ogles their bodies whilst mocking them. It's as if his opinion of women is rather low in some regards, like they exist to be both sexualised and mocked at the same time. They have great bodies but at the same time get mocked for it, it's quite a sick attitude to have.

He alternates between objectifying hot women and mocking them, especially in some pictures where women find themselves in compromising situations and get made fun at the same time. I also wonder if the way he portrays women sits well with a number of male superhero readers, who likely have the same attitude to women as he does. I'm not lying that he's a talented artist but the way he mocks women's bodies doesn't sit well with them.

There are cartoonists who are fond of portraying buxom women, yet don't share his habit of mocking them for it at the same time. Like you get the impression that they actually respect them, at least from what I've seen with people like Francis Manapul and possibly other cartoonists. Frank Cho isn't one of them, so there's something about his art that strikes me as oddly misogynistic in a way Manapul rarely is even if they depict the same body types for women.

#misogyny #sexism in comics #comic books #frank cho #francis manapul #sexism

[fantastic-nonsense]

Oracle isn't just a name. It's an identity that is inextricably intertwined with Barbara Gordon reclaiming herself and her sense of agency over her body and life after becoming disabled.

The last 13 years of dedicated activism have gotten us back to a point where Oracle is acknowledged and Babs is portrayed as a competent adult woman, and I'm grateful she finally has her team back. But DC still refuses to acknowledge and uplift her as disabled, undermining the core thesis of Barbara's character in the modern era. And as long as she's not visibly disabled…she's still not Oracle.

Oracle was created because two people (Kim Yale and John Ostrander) saw a horribly misogynistic story and went "no. We can do better. We SHOULD do better." Oracle was a rebirth, a revitalization, a refusal to allow women to be relegated to the sidelines and margins of superhero comics regardless of physical ability.

To refuse to portray her as visibly disabled undermines everything that Babs as Oracle stood for, both in-universe and in real life. It betrays the identity's foundations as a reclamation of agency and heroism. It betrays her creators' intent as an avenue for disability representation and a revitalization of a character summarily discarded because the company saw no further use for her. It betrays the millions of readers who read her stories for nearly 25 years and enjoyed stories brimming with strength, independence, and heroism that depicted a disabled character at their center.

It's doubly frustrating because it's clear that DC is slowly moving Cass back into the "primary Batgirl" role, allowing us to have a semblance of Oracle back, but they seem to think of Oracle as an interchangable identity with Batgirl that Babs would have had even if TKJ had never happened. And outside of Batgirls (which ended last year), they won't even meet people halfway and make Barbara an ambulatory wheelchair user who uses forearm crutches and/or a cane when she's mobile.

Again: I'm grateful that Oracle is being acknowledged again. I'm grateful Babs is back to being a competent adult and team leader who has friends outside of Gotham. But I continue to be frustrated at the company-wide sexism keeping her from fully moving on from Batgirl and the ableism prohibiting her from being shown as visibly disabled.

#barbara gordon #batgirl #oracle #dc comics #sexism #ableism #batman #birds of prey #cassandra cain

[rubydubydoo122]

Why isn’t Stephanie Brown considered as good as the rest of the Batfam when it comes to detective work?

She’s really good at solving riddles and puzzles and stuff like that, right? And basically detective work is just real life puzzles. So… why isn’t Steph considered a good detective?

#stephanie brown #tim drake #batman #batfam #dc comics #dick grayson #bruce wayne #damian wayne #duke thomas #jason todd #stage whispers: ITS THE SEXISM!!!

[cer-rata]

An incomplete but very angry diatribe about the missed potential of the Star Sapphires

So back in the day Geoff Johns and co decided to open up the Green Lantern mythos and add some more flavor and expand the concept of sci-fi tech powered by elemental emotion to more than just willpower. Which yes, is not an emotion, we ignore it and move on.

Anyway we got some really cool stuff! A rage tyrant fueled by experiencing incredible injustice on a personal and cosmic scale, whose vendetta twisted him into something terrible. An avatar of greed who was never allowed to have anything, not freedom, not family, not safety, who takes and takes and takes to fill a void that can never be satisfied. A priest who lost everything but presses on through his unshakable hope that the future can and will be better. It's a lot of fun stuff!

So in this great creative re-imagining, they had to do something clever and fun with the idea of an all female corps powered by love right? They took the opportunity to move past the purely romantic, sexual idea of love and the obsessed femme fatale archetype, because they had the chance to really explore different types of affection now that there were a bunch of different avatars with different stories to pull from right?

Right?

Nope! The only Sapphires we ever learn about are heartbroken over a cursed romance like Carol, grieving a dead fiance like Miri Riam, forcibly mind controlled to be one like Fatality, or just Miss Bloss who...kind of said she wanted to join up? No clue what her deal is, as far as I'm aware that's never really explained. And then we just never learn about anyone else, and still haven't. The hell is "The Lost Sapphire"? No idea, we'll likely never know.

It's frustrating because not only is this a glaring example of the depth of plotlines offered to women in comics compared to their male counterparts, but also a wild lack of imagination. Love is one of the most complicated emotions we experience. Fear, anger, hope, all pretty easy to quickly define. Love is multifaceted, cultural, incredibly contextual and a factor in so many different kinds of relationship. Just thinking logically it should be much easier to flesh out the motivations of a group pulling from such a nuanced source of power, versus something as clear-cut as rage. But no, the red lanterns got so many varied reasons for their rage, the male ones especially: Bleez being the woman was of course given the SA narrative, which I don't think is inappropriate on its own, that's an incredibly valid reason to be angry, but as the ONLY truly prominent female Red Lantern it's like...c'mon guys. But still, at least she and Atrocitus had different reasons for becoming what they are, and that variation was played for plot and drama.

But there's not a single Star Sapphire that personally champions something other than romantic love. And before you shoot me, it is explicitly mentioned that they DO protect other forms of love, so there's no reason for them to all be sexy and obsessed with kissing people. There are no Sapphires that are driven by:

The love of their children and families, even in a tragic sense, like Atrocitus and Saint Walker and Larfleez are...

Their love of their people, or their culture. It would have been interesting if Fatality was inducted BECAUSE of her pain at losing her world, but no, they just...replaced her anger with lovey vibes and called it a day.

Their love for nature. Not everyone is social, but social love isn't the only way to strongly experience the emotion.

Their love for themselves. Where is the fun narcissistic ass who loves their own self image to the point of getting powers? It would have been a fun twist and a cool way to get another villainous Sapphire if you wanted to.

Their platonic love of ANYTHING really. Are ace/aro people just...not capable of love then? It doesn't mean anything to be willing to drive cross country to help a friend move just because they needed it and you care? No? You need to be fucking for it to count?

It's like...fascinating if you really think about it. In this vast fantasy universe full of alien races with wildly different perceptions and life cycles, and where the other corps have plenty of non-human, truly alien looking members, that the women's only love corps is full of only hot hot scantily clad baddies. Most love that people experience in their lives isn't even romantic! You will have far more experiences with friends and family members and even loving strangers than you will have with romantic partners.

Like the reason is clearly sexism, duh, but we know sexism is bad, that's obvious, what I really want to make clear is how much this blatant, unexplored sexism just completely desecrated the potential of the worldbuilding here.

From another angle even: Let's say this this WAS the sex and romance all the time corps. Let's say that you wanted to keep it all women. I hate the idea that women are capable of love in a way that men aren't, that's such a bad take and just regressive and unhelpful, but let's just play ball for a moment. They're not even hot? Their designs are such ridiculously narrow versions of feminine attractiveness that they're not even successful at really being mass appeal sexy. I haven't even reached the point of complaining about the fatphobia and criminal lack of different body types yet, I'm still just saying that from the standpoint of fantasy sexy it's not even good at being stereotypical offensive fantasy sexy. It's just boring! They're all so visually boring! You can be scantily clad and still have an interesting and coherent character design! But that is not what they gave these women! They actually redesigned the classic Star Sapphire costume and made it MORE sexist and boring:

Yeah it was cheesy but it was also cute and fun? The design is playful classic sci-fi girl and this is when she was still a dangerous unhinged villain. Its fun to look at and feels tonally coherent next to Green Lantern.

And then they just...

No actually, I will not explain this one, you have eyes.

And yeah they fixed her costume finally,

But! She's still stuck as Hal Jordan's romantic punching bag, and has not gotten to have any new adventures on her own.

So.

What I'm saying is it's a flop all around. 2/10, and only because despite everything Fatality STILL managed to serve. I actually think that all of the corps have been poorly used since blackest night, even the greens actually, but they never even gave the Sapphires a chance. They last showed up in...a WW annual I think? During the whole dark gods event, they needed Diana to help them fight the evil god of love, and there was a guy in the corp finally, and they talked about sisterhood and then we haven't heard a peep from them since. I think Carol might be due to get her ring back in the GL ongoing but she's not really been treated well so far, so I'm not hopeful for anything fresh and well reasoned.

So my lovely ladies (and that one unnamed guy), until they let you get it together it may be time to

#dc comics #comics meta #hal jordan #green lantern #star sapphire #carol ferris #fatality #atrocitus #larfleeze #saint walker #sexism #shut up cerata #dc editorial answer for your crimes

[slime-water-shrew]

A little comic I made of my dumbass self. I was a weird egg and would rather make strange conspiracy theories than actually question my gender.

I drew it by hand rather than pen so it’s baaad but the point remains the same

#tw sexism #I don’t know why I thought this but yeah… #transmasculine #trans male #trans guy #trans man #trans boy #transgender #trans #comic #my art #but it was done in five minutes so sorry about that #egg #trans egg #trans memes #queer memes

[bad-comic-art]

One word: the BlackSad series

All the male characters are humanoid animals but almost all the ladies (except for the "uglies") seems just woman with animal makeup (some times just the nose)

And I do love the series

But I can help but being bothered by this fact

What do you think?

submitted by @tama1313

stuff like this always makes me think of the crazy sexual dimorphism of world of warcraft lol I always think the mens designs have so much more character

#blacksad #darguard #comics #comic books #sexism

[3eanuts]

March 30, 1956 — see The Complete Peanuts 1955-1958

#peanuts #comics #humor #existentialism #charlie brown #linus van pelt #kids #children #bullying #gender norms #patriarchy #sexism #toxic masculinity

[benbamboozled]

I would love to hear the Tim and Babs rant!

Okay, it’s not so much Tim & Babs specific, more of a general issue, but—

IT JUST BUGS ME that women aren’t allowed to have boys/young men as sidekicks/subordinates in the DC universe.

(I think it’s because of the classic “men’s knowledge is general, women’s knowledge is MYSTERIIIIOUS and applicable Only To Women” brand of sexism. Like, a man could have a boy or a girl be his sidekick, he would obviously have Much To Teach Them. And obviously a woman could have a girl sidekick, since she would have Much To Teach Her. But a woman having enough applicable knowledge for a BOY to have Much To Teach Him? POPPYCOCK! *monocles pop off wildly* *several monopoly men hit the fainting couches at the mere suggestion.*)

#ask answered #sexism in comics #IS BAD! #it’s less of A Thing with MEN and WOMEN… #possibly because there’s less of that clearly defined power structure of Older Woman Mentor to potentially emasculate the reader.

[stanksmcgee]

I checked out some youtube videos on the current custodes drama and the comment sections are pretty vile.

I wasn't gonna make a post about the backlash but there are hordes of people reciting imperium quotes about damning their enemies as if women (in and out of the setting) are said enemy.

I'm very glad it seems to have a different reception overall here on Tumblr.

#also these quotes are usually intended to be a comical depiction of hatred and xenophobia. its just blatant sexism now. #why would you think quoting that is a good idea #interesting to see the propaganda machine that 40k proposes is entirely plausible #I'll be glad when this is behind us #warhammer 40k #female custodes

[evilhorse]

You’re the fastest man alive, remember? Or is that just a sexist myth?

(All-Star Comics #60)

#all-star comics #justice society of america #jsa #power girl #kara zor l #the flash #jay garrick #race #action #sexism #dat rack #gerry conway #keith giffen #wally wood #dc comics #comics #70s comics #bronze age comics

[fortressofserenity]

#comic books #comics #dc comics #sexism in comics #feminism #sexism #misogyny #marvel #marvel comics