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I’m pretty sure the most popular entry in this blog is the one from late April: Women Lacking Complexity-For SCIENCE! about blogger Jen McCreight’s initiative Boob Quake. Wow Giants Landon Collins Jersey , who would have thought it? The most popular blog was about tits.


Yes, there are two big issues looming when it comes to women and comics. Seriously, that’s not a rhetorical flourish, there are two. Let’s deal with the D-cups first, because there is a reason they go on the cover. Men like breasts. A couple months ago Giants Ereck Flowers Jersey , Warner Bros posted screencaps to Arkham City, the sequel to the Arkham Asylum computer game.


The gullible souls who bought into the BrubakerCooke scam and continue to think flat-chested and short hair are the hallmarks of a dynamic empowered woman started frothing at the mouth: Look at those breasts! How can it be! It is the goggle-whore costume we have all been trained to defend as practical no matter how nonsensical the word is as applied to any costume in any comic including the one this displaced. It is black and not purple, she has no long flowing hair cascading luxuriously out the back of her cowl, how can she have breasts that can be seen without special lenses?! It does not compute. The horror, the horror! How dare they defame the good name of Catwoman by giving her a figure men will enjoy looking at!


I really had hoped the Iranian cleric that started the whole Boob Quake thing would have woken those silly women up. Because if you buy into the idea that boobs are bad and there is something wrong with men who like them Giants Darian Thompson Jersey , then you’re standing with Fahas Ahardtime Acceptinghalfthehumanrace-majad. That doesn’t strike me as very enlightened or feminist, ladies, but hey, you don’t see the problem with the whore either, so I guess I shouldn’t be surprised.


For those who aren’t irrevocably committed to the doctrine of Men Suck Giants Sterling Shepard Jersey , let’s briefly revisit why the male of the species like the breasts. I’m sorry Notting Hill fans, there is a reason and it’s not “because they’re stupid.” It’s because we’re primates. For a long, long, long, long time Giants Eli Apple Jersey , the male approaching a female for mating purposes is looking at a rump. Now fast forward a few million years. We’re all walking upright. What in the general vicinity of the new eyelevel looks like that? There’s nothing perverse about it. Men notice cleavage. Put it on the cover, they’ll notice your cover. That’s not an automatic sale, but it gets their attention. What you do then is up to you.


Which brings us to the second issue when it comes to women in comics: who they are as opposed to how they look. Let’s start with a quote from a creative writing forum, which was sent to me after the recent blog on Fridging:


“As it was explained to me by a comics professional years ago at a convention panel on the topic, the vast majority of comic writers are men who simply don’t understand women. Since they don’t understand women (and earn more by churning out stories as quickly as possible) Giants Wayne Gallman Jersey , they save time by reducing women to cliched roles as eit