Blog 6: Decades of Poses

Have you ever notice about people telling you what to do, what to look like, especially how you should act? While I was in one of my friends Photo Shoot as one of the models I was asked to pose a bit sexy for her, and she gave me points and tips. While the men pose manly, I asked myself why should I pose sexy while men pose with a strong personality? So I went and asked her why, although she also doesn’t know I went online on strong poses for women and why women are always seen as a sexy icon.

While browsing on my small problem I stumbled upon an article in the website called KINJA titled “10 Stupid Arguments People Use To Defend Comic Book Sexism” written by Rob Bricken. In his article he had a problem on people that have been arguing on about sexism on comic books, and he wrote it to make readers see what non comic book reader’s views are.  Rob wrote down 10 things non-readers have a problem on the portrayal of women in comic books. The first view is on how they are drawn but heroines are sexier, their art style is also different. Rob cit

ed an example where a hero crouches down that looked manly and strong, on the other hand there’s this image also of a heroine using the same position as his counterpart but they view it as a more seductive. It said that heroes are never drawn exactly how they are posed because they see that as a more feminine attribute. There are still a lot that rob had cited. “We bring up problems with sexism in comics, and will continue to bring them up, because the comics industry has been treating fictional and non-fictional women with a double standard for decades.” Said Rob, comics have been around for decades, comics should at the very least fix this sexism in their comics.

On another article titled “These Male Superheroes Objectified Like Their FemaleCounterparts Is Absolutely Perfect” on the Buzzfeed written by Javier Moreno. I read also this article where the same heroine had a problem with his counterpart hero, this time it showed the same sexist treatment to their counterpart. He cited a picture of Thor but with revealing clothes on and with his hammer, and The Punisher with just a drape of a scull covering his testicles.  Javier also bluntly showed the underwear of the hero and with a big not so erected penis. Javier mentioned what his friend white said “Sexiness isn’t inherently a bad thing, it just needs to be an equal thing.” Where to as we should respect each other and give equality on what we see.

Going back to what I have been puzzling about people at my age read comics a lot and still increasing, comics have been here for the longest time and a lot of readers get their ideas and adapt to what they have read. If these kinds of comics show a lot of sexism, there are no excuses that people who have read it are a bit sexist. What we read sometimes affects us on what we see in our surrounding, just like what I have experienced on our Photo Shoot. I noticed that  my friends read comics too, maybe what they have read are classically conditioned in their brains and we don’t even notice it.