NathanLoiselle wrote:I don't like the argument that the perfect men drawn in the comics is okay because that's what we, as men, aspire to. I don't know about anyone else but I don't fucking aspire to look like what Wolverine or Namor or who ever look to be. It's the same stupid argument used before women's liberation came along and made us understand that women don't aspire to look like what's-her-name. It's disgusting. That women now use the same argument they once found insulting and still tell us the opposite side of that argument is in effect.
I don't believe the argument is that all men have that fantasy, just as not all women ever have aspired to look one like one singular purpose or ideal. But there are some men and some women who do, and in this case, it seems that the men who have this particular fantasy are being catered too. Just because this particular article didn't raise the appearance of men in comic books as an issue doesn't mean there are no people who have an issue with the way men are drawn in comic books, nor did the article argue that the way men are drawn is "okay".