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In reply to the discussion: Marvel features spider woman's ass on cover of issue #1 [View all]PoutrageFatigue
(416 posts)179. If it's inappropriate for a male character it's.... wait....
... never mind.....
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After watching Massive Attack (she has a thing for bugs), I found this one ...
In_The_Wind
Aug 2014
#66
Not being an artistic type I am not sure of the essence of Nicki's latest video
underpants
Aug 2014
#26
"Explanation: Are you kidding? I want to see some Spider woman ass! Going to thread now" ROLF
Exultant Democracy
Aug 2014
#343
Yeah, but it's typical of decades of this kind of comic art depiction of women's anatomy.
ancianita
Aug 2014
#155
Not a position a human body- that has been given super powers to fight villains with names like
Warren DeMontague
Aug 2014
#200
I've lived next door to Wilson for 30 years. Before his head injury, we used to call him Ass Clay.
Luminous Animal
Aug 2014
#106
He gave me pork brains in a can that, after 20 years sitting on a shelf, burst open.
Luminous Animal
Aug 2014
#112
"that huge, muscular thing sticking out the back is more reminiscent of a spider's abdomen..."
alphafemale
Aug 2014
#85
Here's another one that I remember caused some hubbub like the Spiderwoman pic above
TlalocW
Aug 2014
#191
this is exactly why I'm laughing at all the fanboys expressing outrage at the new Wonder Woman
wyldwolf
Aug 2014
#10
Most of the fanboys I've come across aren't upset that she doesn't have large breasts etc.
PragmaticLiberal
Aug 2014
#83
Look at the last image of comment 31. With spiderman in pretty much the same pose.
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
Aug 2014
#33
It is pretty much the same pose and there are thousands like it in spiderman comics.
stevenleser
Aug 2014
#193
Indeed....I'm always fascinated when a poster goes immediately to teh buttseks.
msanthrope
Aug 2014
#48
Not much different than an extreme religious fundy seeing the perverse in the mundane.
alphafemale
Aug 2014
#229
It's hypersexualization - her pose is pornified. It is a problem that many others manage to grasp.
redqueen
Aug 2014
#88
you'd never have the nerve to say that to an African American or gay civil rights advocate
zazen
Aug 2014
#129
I've read lots of comics and it's not. It's an art style depicting body fantasy that's not sexual.
ancianita
Aug 2014
#164
Oh my. A slightly more arched back. The horror. Red lipstick, too. Long hair, too.
aikoaiko
Aug 2014
#39
Exactly. The pose being complained about seems completely in line with spiderman crawling poses.
stevenleser
Aug 2014
#120
No; that's what we call "disingenuousness." And Spiderman isn't clad in only body-paint.
WinkyDink
Aug 2014
#144
If you think that's disingenuous, you dont know what you are talking about. I provided
stevenleser
Aug 2014
#171
Just because we complain about a comic book cover isn't automatically a distraction from
alp227
Aug 2014
#234
And murder, dismemberment, cannibalism and eating grapes are all horrible, too.
Warren DeMontague
Aug 2014
#270
In my view the "popular culture" is an imaginary fiction, and the idea of "hypersexualization" is
Warren DeMontague
Aug 2014
#272
Imagine the uproar if more anime designs, artworks, body pillows and figures were talked about here
Blue_Adept
Aug 2014
#283
There's a difference between mere representation of sexuality and sexual objectification.
alp227
Aug 2014
#348
At least that link tries to offer a somewhat workable, qualitative set of standards for what,
Warren DeMontague
Aug 2014
#369
I'm sure some gay teenagers also read it for the superhero and superheroine titillation
lunatica
Aug 2014
#243
We need the equivalent of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, but for Spiderwoman's ass.
Nye Bevan
Aug 2014
#94
YES. "Klan-worthy" is the perfect description for those horrible Spiderwoman buttocks-defenders.
Nye Bevan
Aug 2014
#156
'They sound like men ridiculing women for public speaking in the late 1800s,' because they are.
freshwest
Aug 2014
#367
The true obscenity is imaging yourself oppressed because people disagree with you.
alphafemale
Aug 2014
#137
So what do you propose we do with people that express ideas you don't like?
alphafemale
Aug 2014
#146
Why are you focused on what I do or don't approve of? This is about *misogyny*.
redqueen
Aug 2014
#147
For decades I've read the exaggerated female anatomies in comic book art as symbolic to readers of
ancianita
Aug 2014
#161
Why are you focused on anatomy and ignoring the sexual objectification in the poses and costumes?
redqueen
Aug 2014
#163
I do. The difference is that these here are not "women." I've read much on the artists, and they
ancianita
Aug 2014
#167
All I can say is, the most feminist kids I know are both gay, straight, college level functional and
ancianita
Aug 2014
#172
Aeon Flux was sheer erotica !!! And a strong image for woman Everywhere .
orpupilofnature57
Aug 2014
#101
I read Spiderman comics as a kid. I recognize this pose as very similar to Spiderman poses
stevenleser
Aug 2014
#109
My problem with it, artistically, is that her face looks smooshed and 2 dimensional.
Warren DeMontague
Aug 2014
#203
Wow, ... a woman thrusting her ass out conveys athleticism? Now I've heard everything.
redqueen
Aug 2014
#136
I would have been done after the one post, if it wasn't for the alert.
Warren DeMontague
Aug 2014
#201
I think you need to study more about comic book art. It's not intended to prop sexism. It just isn't
ancianita
Aug 2014
#168
You can reply to every single post I make, but I'm not going to ignore reality.
redqueen
Aug 2014
#170
Apparently not objecting to the cartoon butt pose is a vicious attitude worthy of the klan.
Warren DeMontague
Aug 2014
#208
And therein lies the problem. No one who has read Spiderman comics would think this unusual.
stevenleser
Aug 2014
#227
There are several groups scanning the internet for inappropriate pictures/images of women
stevenleser
Aug 2014
#231
Don't believe those still busy trying to pretend the pose is no different than Spider Man's...
redqueen
Aug 2014
#180
A real superhero given crime-fighting powers after being bitten by a radioactive spider
Warren DeMontague
Aug 2014
#184
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hunter
Aug 2014
#190
It's like one of those spot the difference games. You've got to concentrate...
Violet_Crumble
Aug 2014
#224
What in the world are you talking about? What is supposed to be different in this side by side?
TheKentuckian
Aug 2014
#248
Are you saying then, That there is No Difference in the bodies because they
Tuesday Afternoon
Aug 2014
#269
OKay, Not sure But, I think the point she is trying to make with this side by side is how
Tuesday Afternoon
Aug 2014
#303
Read marvel and DC comics all my life, that is a standard 'pose' for spiderman to be in.
Rex
Aug 2014
#304
Keeping it all in perspective, I am not even minutely upset about 2000 collector edition copies
Tuesday Afternoon
Aug 2014
#316
Yeah I think that is what has some people upset, I saw someone use the term hypersexulization
Rex
Aug 2014
#328
yes, there appears to be a costume as opposed to body paint. Skin tight but, stretched across the
Tuesday Afternoon
Aug 2014
#326
I understand Mural on a Wall. My question was concerning how it was made.
Tuesday Afternoon
Aug 2014
#329
Plus we need to remind ourselves that at one time, comic books were considered deviant reading
Rex
Aug 2014
#330
"Kapow! Biff! SPLAT!" GD hasn't seen this sort of comic book excitetement since that time
Warren DeMontague
Aug 2014
#198
"The alternate cover by Italian erotica artist Milo Manara will be an option for customers
Warren DeMontague
Aug 2014
#217
I was led to believe I'd see a controversial ass picture and all I got was normal spider folk shit.
TheKentuckian
Aug 2014
#249
it is "contoversial ass pic" to me. guessi didnt realize comicbooks are so ass centered
Liberal_in_LA
Aug 2014
#257
She is using one of spider-mans most iconic poses, its called an homage.
Exultant Democracy
Aug 2014
#344
Did you know then that it's not the main cover for the comic, but instead a special alternate
Warren DeMontague
Aug 2014
#372