Quit Complaining
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Comics and toys are male areas. Don’t get your panties in a bunch about it. All comic characters have extreme bodies.
Gee, why is Batman tall? Why are his shoulders so broad? To visually denote strength. Why draw Wonder Woman’s breasts so large? For sexual reasons—period.
But don’t take my word for it. Let’s have a look at some work from the CS Moore Studios, shall we?
Of course, maybe this company’s main focus is sexualizing comic characters. Surely they would do it to every—wha?
Fine. I guess I should just except the way the world is and keep my mouth shut.
That’s never going to happen people. Just for suggesting it, I leave you with this image. Behold! This is what you will be confronted with when Armageddon arrives!
Misogyny: The World’s Oldest Prejudice
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-78), probably one of the most influential misogynists of all time, took the ideal of the pure woman who uses her virtue as a sexual allure and turned it into an inescapable fact of nature. Dissembling and manipulation were assigned to her as her defining characteristics. ‘Whether the woman shares the man’s passions or not,’ he wrote, in an account of the ideal woman and her education in what became an international bestseller, ‘whether she is willing or unwilling to satisfy it, she always repulses him and defends herself, though not always with the same vigour and therefore not always with the same success.’ This is merely a roundabout way of asserting that women say ‘no’ even when they mean ‘yes’, the same logic that has frequently been used as a defence in rape trials.
Oh, wait. It gets better. You know that little post I did a few days ago about a man’s choice in abortion? Many of the arguments for that choice can be directly linked to the next quote.
Not surprisingly, in Rousseau’s vision of primitive man, men and women lived separate lives, mating when they met, and then moving on, with the women raising the offspring by themselves without any help or concern from the fathers. It was an eighteenth-century version of the old myth of male autonomy.
The idea of male autonomy goes back to Plato and the Bible—the idea that men don’t really need women. Women exist merely as incubators for the young.
Not surprisingly, this argument has been used for feminism—a truly liberated woman shouldn’t even want to force a man to be a father. This argument not only dismisses men and their important role in child raising but it places feminists on the defensive. How can a woman argue for equality if she refuses to take up her equal share?
This, of course, is idiocy. Women have always carried more than their fair share of the child raising responsibility. The idea that a woman demanding control over her own body means that she must want men not to take responsibility for what their own bodies create is ludicrous. It twists the very idea of feminism into yet another argument for keeping women in a secondary position in society.
