Women's breasts may be functional as well as sexual, but there's no denying that they're sexualized in a way men's breasts aren't. It's disingenuous to pretend otherwise when you're comparing male and female bodies in art.
Men's bodies in superhero comics generally aren't realistic either, but they're not treated the same way women's bodies are--they're they idealized image of what men want to look like, not what men want to fuck. The way women are treated in superhero comics is sexist because it's entirely one-sided.
Marvel and DC have little interest in selling comics to women; when they make an effort like this--in principle, this book is meant for women, and what little I've heard about the writer suggests that he's not a bad match for the material--they fall back on the same same tactics they use to sell books to men (images of women men want to fuck), because they don't know how to do anything else. Bad, sexist art in comics is nothing new; it's just particularly eye-roll-inducing when the entrenched sexism is highlighted so.
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Men's bodies in superhero comics generally aren't realistic either, but they're not treated the same way women's bodies are--they're they idealized image of what men want to look like, not what men want to fuck. The way women are treated in superhero comics is sexist because it's entirely one-sided.
Marvel and DC have little interest in selling comics to women; when they make an effort like this--in principle, this book is meant for women, and what little I've heard about the writer suggests that he's not a bad match for the material--they fall back on the same same tactics they use to sell books to men (images of women men want to fuck), because they don't know how to do anything else. Bad, sexist art in comics is nothing new; it's just particularly eye-roll-inducing when the entrenched sexism is highlighted so.