If that were just admitted freely, the whole debate about depictions of female characters would have to completely change.

Probably. I doubt most of the heaviest critics would care if we were honest about why the women in comics look like they do. It would make for a great chance to talk about our fantasies and about a healthy view of sex and relationships instead of broken backs, oversized tits and outrageous costumes.

If that were just admitted freely, the whole debate about depictions of female characters would have to completely change. But its not admitted openly, so in a sort of weird judo reversal, the operations of privilege can be used against the privileged by holding comic books to the standard that society pretends comic books uphold.

Ing, perhaps instead of labeling my post ‘fail’ yet again, you could enlighten the rest of us with your vast comic, Trek, and porn wisdom?

My not being a mouthbreathing toad hardly makes me an expert.

… Oh! I know what it needs! Robert Downey Jr. in that very same pose.

I DEMAND THIS BE DONE.

Perhaps you want a comment war?

Yes, that exactly what I want. Please start a comment salvo, investing at least a hour of composition time on each of your points, complete with detailed references to comic literature.

I need that on my desktop by tomorrow morning.

Your valuable warlike comments will be rebutted in detail.

They protect her from extreme heat dontchaknow!

I have the same problem… Did you manage to create a script that can parse the disqus xml file and places them to the WP database?

*hustles off to search engines & Wikipffft*