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Redrawing women: Tackling sexism in comics book (video, bbc.co.uk, link updated and quoted text no longer present on page but video is the same).

Indeed, and likely explaining those furtive, rather embarrassed looks on face of chaps reading MuscleMag & Awkward Fitness on said bus too, unless there is some double standard explaing why women looking at Wonder Woman’s booty must want it or hers there and then on said bus while chaps need not be so keen to grasp whatever is being double-pumped and bulging within those pages.

As the video explains, it’s about women wanting to do comics about what they wish to do comics about, and hear, hear to that. But at 1:00 it does raise the issue of is it less evolution and more censorship which, thankfully for me with what I sketch and paint here, Becky Cloonan, the first woman to draw Batman on a main title concludes “it’s not to say that it’s bad art and that that art shouldn’t be done because there is a place for it.”. Indeed, long knowing you can’t place all, all of the time if ever and that for some—or either or any gender—whatever it is you draw you may always want something else.

I think some—certainly not all—of the problem is summed up by that introduction though, being embarrassed to read in public because of what people may think, which is seemingly still—but lessening—why females are reluctant to admit watching erotica, as they may do, as equally some may not, often preferring a literary heroic and often bodice-ripping fantasy escapism instead. For sure, fantasy may rest upon cultural norms and attitudes but is a very subjective thing and norms and attitudes are there to be she-Hulk smashed, for “fan service” (tvtropes.org) or not, instead whatever your fantasy may be.

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