{"id":2587,"date":"2007-06-16T20:14:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-17T04:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2587"},"modified":"2007-06-16T20:14:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-17T04:14:00","slug":"2587","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2587","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/douglas-wolk\/superhero-comics-girl-tr_b_50820.html\" title=\"The Huffington Post: Superhero Comics' Girl Trouble\">Douglas Wolk<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There&#8217;s a certain sexed-up visual atmosphere that&#8217;s endemic to superhero comics; the way their characters are drawn is supposed to be not just attractive but viscerally appealing, to provoke a kind of somatic response. That&#8217;s why Superman and Captain America are tall and ripplingly muscled, why Catwoman and Elektra are curvy and ripped, why all the heroes wear skintight outfits, and &#8212; ideally &#8212; part of why both men and women find them fun to look at. But stripping everything but quasipornographic lust-puppetry from superhero comics&#8217; women characters actually gets that principle wrong. It&#8217;s a deliberate attempt to repulse half of their potential audience, and to sell &#8220;collectibles&#8221; to people who like the idea of repulsing that half. And it&#8217;s embarrassing to anyone who loves what&#8217;s left of the superhero genre.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookslut.com\/blog\/\">Bookslut<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Douglas Wolk: There&#8217;s a certain sexed-up visual atmosphere that&#8217;s endemic to superhero comics; the way their characters are drawn is supposed to be not just attractive but viscerally appealing, to provoke a kind of somatic response. That&#8217;s why Superman and Captain America are tall and ripplingly muscled, why Catwoman and Elektra are curvy and ripped, &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2587\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-2587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}