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Originally Posted by xhavoc86

dun dun dun! People are officially disgusted with how Starfire and Catwoman are super trampy in the new comics! Article here.

I'm gonna be honest, I read both Catwoman and Red Hood, and I didn't think either of these comics were overly "sexy". Girls have always been half naked in comics and it feels like second nature. Sex in comics isn't that new either...so I don't see it. But I will say I felt the article was very one sided as there are plenty of female heroes that don't go the route of being overly sexy (Batwoman, Invisible Woman, etc).

There are some female heroes that don't...but they're rare, and depending on the artists even those get "Sexed up" from time to time.

But you almost NEVER see males presented in an equally sexualized fashion in mainstream comic books. Yeah, they might be shirtless or whatnot, but it isn't "sexy" it's "battle damage" or whatever.

The article is one-sided because it's a one-sided issue. Mainstream comics are TREMENDOUSLY skewed towards straight white males between the ages of 17-35. It's part of the reason they've been a dying industry for the past 20 years...they're turning off huge chunks of potential audience by either failing to cater to them at all, or doing an extremely poor job of it when they try (or worse yet, putting out a book supposedly designed to cater to a different/new audience and then canceling it after 6 issues because of low-sales, and using that as reinforcement to continue catering to their "main" audience rather than accepting that, hey...when you're trying to build an audience segment that's virtually at zero, it might actually take some TIME to accomplish that).