- my topic: misogyny in geek culture and how it's affected a female audience
- 40% of comic readers are female & there has been an increase in female led comics
- still a history of misogyny in the field
- a big problem is the hypersexualisation of female characters - these are my 'favourites'
- Top one done by Milo Manara, an erotic artist. There is a time & place for erotic art comic covers are not the time or place.
- Second one by Guillem March, parodied a lot. Parodied by himself in the style of Robert Crumb. - Awareness of misogyny.
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- Not viewing the character as a person or for their fighting skills, but for sexual purposes
- some horrifying drawings I have done in response to the 'main parts' of female characters
- Satirising the over-sexualisation of women.
- Panel from Saga "Welcome to Sextillion"
- Parodying the reduction of women to their sexy parts.
- Women in comics are shown to defeat their enemies using their sexuality - I have drawn Batman seducing the joker.
- Role reversal makes men uncomfortable and hopefully makes them realise how stupid it is to do this with female characters.
- A problem with the hypersexualisation of female characters is that readers learn to objectify them, and thus don't respect real women - particularly cosplayers
- 25% of women at conventions sexually harassed, 8% have been groped, assaulted or raped. This is not okay.
- Some may argue men are objectified because they are all portrayed as big buff men. This is a male power fantasy - and not done for female pleasure like female characters are written for male pleasure.
- Sexy batman, for some more making men uncomfortable.
- A lot of women have been able to get into geek culture via the internet, so this is where a lot of the feminist revolution is.
- Hawkeye initiative - where hawkeye is drawn in the over sexual poses women are usually put in. Its pretty funny.
- (this is mentioned in an earlier blog post) the sexual object vs sexual subject
- where is the line???
- A lot to do with the intent of the artist
- This comic suggests that a subject has power. Because comic characters cannot consent and can never have the power it's very hard to make them subjects
- The consent and power must be explicitly written in by the creator.
- sexy lamp
- A lot of female characters are two dimensional and are solely there to be sexy - thus if you can replace them with a sexy lamp, its not good.
- Babs Tarr aka My Queen
- Working on Batgirl
- Draws a lot of sexy ladies, but they are not hyper sexualised or portrayed as sexual objects. They're definitely not drawn with men in mind.
- Characters from the comic 'Rat Queens'
- They are all very diverse & you can see their character over any sexual appeal they have.
- How do I portray a sexy character who is not objectified? How can I show the difference bluntly since there's such a fine line?
- Aaaaaah
- Just started to draw some strong women, conquering dude-bros.
- My goal was to make something that would still be sexy but absolutely not intended for the male gaze. Something that would absolutely frighten men.
- Started drawing these over sexual, really stupid superheroes with lazer boobs and throwing star vaginas etc.
- I just thought I'd push it as far as I could go with it. I wanted to make it so over the top and horrific that it's just uncomfortable to look at.
- ideas for my visual diagram - a hero layout of these horrifying superheroes
- Object vs Subject but not sure where to go with it.
Feedback
- Very Knowlegdeable about Gender/Male Gaze
- Very good delivery style
- Sexual object vs sexual subject is an excellent central argument in many ways a model of synthesis between theory and practice
- The map of groteqsue female sexuality sounds intriguing
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