Women can find characters sexy too. It's allowed

May 21, 2011

Women can find characters sexy too. It’s allowed

I’m really tired of guys getting mad if women find male fictional characters attractive. They somehow feel this either invalidates the character themself or that the women’s opinions of the characters are invalid. And to them, women should never expect the males to be drawn attractively, that’s shallow!

Like if I hear one more guy complain about Jason Todd or Gambit and their female fan base, I think I will punch something.

It’s such bull because look at the female characters in comics. JUST LOOK AT THEM. They are by and large created to be sexpots to appeal to men’s eyes. There are pinups and sexy-statues and whatnot. The first time I ever walked into a comic shop I was rather turned off by shelf after shelf of shiny huge boobs. If a female character isn’t drawn attractively enough, men DO complain! I’ve heard them at the comic shops, online, everywhere. The most annoying I heard was in a discussion of Wonder Woman on Toonzone, a moderated place, where one guy kept arguing with me that she wouldn’t be interesting unless she had a boyfriend, was drawn sexy enough and change her origin story not to be made of clay anymore otherwise he couldn’t “fap” to it, and not too many muscles because he was grossed out by strong women. Another person balked at my idea of showing more women of various faces and weights… no one would read that he said. Male characters can be “ugly” or different looking, but heaven forbid the women be anything but playboy worthy! BLARRRGGGH. And then there’s all the creeps they make fun of on “Our Valued Customers”. Or the official comics (Donna Troy’s ever plunging neckline, anyone? X-23 turned into a prostitute after she crossed over from cartoons to comics?)

Women are expected to have cold objective opinions of characters for some reason. Guess what dudes, women can have valid opinions AND be attracted to characters. Just like you. Women are people too, people with feelings. I know this is shocking to you.

This is a really good post. Just want to echo the important point Clint brought up as well about the fact that women or men finding (fictional) male characters attractive are often dismissed.

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