I seem to be posting a lot about comics lately...

[telophase]

...so here's a link to a post by Noah Berlatsky over on comiXology about bad superheroine cheesecake, titled "Adding Incompetence to Insult."

But more often, you get images like those above, where Star Sapphire's costume makes her look vulnerable, not tough…or the Marvel Divas cover, where everybody but Hellcat is making with the bedroom eyes, and the only threat is that Black Cat's costume may pinch so tightly that she actually pops apart at the waist, causing everything from the torso up to go swooshing about like a deflating balloon.

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The fact that male comic readers are beginning to notice that these female characters do not look like female characters and finding them unattractive is one step in the right direction.

Maybe that's why I can't agree with the sexism. I look at the superheroines and I see absurd proportions that are ugly. I look at the superheroes and I see the same thing, absurd proportions that are ugly. To me they seem equivalently bad, and not a matter of one being sexualized more than the other.