I think this says way more about our lazy media than about gender issues. Considering it would only take a cursory search to find an identical Spider-Man pose, it shows that none of these publications think it necessary to do cursory fact checks before running holier than thou opinion pieces. We saw the same thing a couple weeks ago when Fox News reported about that police officer getting his orbital broken. What happened there, and I would bet a penny what happened here, is that some blogger wrote a shit piece that got popular, and every one else piled on to cash in on the clicks. Problem is you have to publish your piece while the coals are still hot, so there's no time for truth.
- I think this says way more about our lazy media than about gender issues.
Hopefully CNN can find the mysterious "Mr. 4chan" responsible for the celebrity nudes leaks and PUT HIM AWAY... for life.
That was fantastic, for so many reasons, but big ups for the Bill O'Reilly vagina moment.
Never seen this guys videos before, but I am immediately a fan.
My first experience with the dude too and yeah, I really like it. I feel like it's a smart access point for some very complex attitudes, issues and tropes that people often deal with while trying to negotiate the fe/male dichotomy. I will admit that I feel out of phase with some of the social justice type stuff that seems to be de rigueur on the internet, but I am prepared to be surprised by arguments against this guy's rhetoric.
Ever since I was young, I've had a thing for Spider-man. Why not? Just look at all those covers. Looks delicious.
As for the cover, I'm surprised it's such an outrage. I personally don't think the picture is all that attractive, but I'm not the best judge of that. I don't see the big deal. Don't want it? Don't buy it.
It's not a great cover, but it's something to bitch about. So, here we are.
A quote by a friend of mine (which I posted on the quotes thread) might be relevant here too -
- It's interesting that we live in a time where everything sexual towards women is offensive except 50 Shades of Grey which is celebrated as if it's god damn Shakespeare. A book where a man is abusive towards a woman and she develops into his slave. Or Titanic which had nudity for no reason.
My spin? So what? Spiderwoman is a PAWG ("phat ass white girl")? It's not like she's oppressing anybody, except maybe the baddies...
"a male hero would never be placed in the same physical condition"
Well, no shit? Men aren't "sexy" when in poses such as that. So far as I am aware, men are supposed to be very stoic/muscled/etc, not flexible and athletic.
If it were a male character in that position, everyone would be laughing their asses off and/or not consider it sexual at all.
Fact of the matter is, spiderman is an athletic and "flexible" superhero, he ends up in more "female suggestive" poses due to this.
- If it were a male character in that position, everyone would be laughing their asses off.
Look, I'm all for writing characters that express their sexuality in healthy and human ways. Spiderwoman being essentially a sexy pinup on a cover which is approximately 30% ass is not that. It doesn't tell us anything about her character, it is not respectful or meaningful in any way. It's just an ass. And I'm the one who is in the wrong "demonizing sexuality" because I don't want to see that? Give me a break.