it's not stupid it's correct for the demographic
Here's the cover of this month's Batwoman, courtesy DC Comics: X-men Legacy Wallpaper, courtesy Marvel: Artesia, the flagship of my friends over at Archaia: (to be fair, most of the time she's wearing the very armor criticised in this article) And, to round things out, my fine friends at Zenescope, who maintain they have a higher female readership than any other publisher because their stories are "female-centric": It'd be super-cool to pretend that comics have moved on and gotten more progressive and yeah - there are those. But there always have been. It's still Metal Hurlant's world. We just live in it. "Deal with it" - Hajime Sorayama
I don't know. In fantasy settings, women warriors are often portrayed as badasses. Sometimes, for example Red Sonja, this type of armor works with her image and also sells the product. Her "armor" is so skimpy as to be basically worthless, but that's ok because she's an insanely amazing fighter and the world she inhabits is cartoonish. In a more realistic fantasy setting, this might work against the character, particularly if the character is otherwise practically minded.
