APE IN A CAPE: A Bunch Of People Asked Me To Make This Rebloggable, So… Not trying to...

APE IN A CAPE: A Bunch Of People Asked Me To Make This Rebloggable, So… Not trying to...:

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A Bunch Of People Asked Me To Make This Rebloggable, So…


Not trying to pick on the anon, but I disagree with this so much.






Umm, okay, I get that as a writer you have to please the people you work for, but how can a feminist justify writing Red Sonja? Just look at her! She’s the…




Feminist complants about how characters dress is not about the outfits being too skimpy. It’s about the fact that everyone and their grandma is in a skimpy costume. PG has a boob window, great just great. Sue Storm with a boob window, WTF? Huntress showing off her belly is just wrong bullet proof, Supergirl, I can buy it. Starfire wearing hardley a thing good for her. Harley Quinn, a character who’s said she doesn’t have a great figure, probably doesn’t have the confidence to wear the revealing outfits she’s drawn in now. Taken alone Red Sonja is fine, real “barbarians” didn’t wear loincloths either. As part of the big picture she’s just another barely dressed lady in a sea of them. The solution isn’t covering everyone up, but adding diversity in clothing choices and body shapes. Give Wonder Woman a Greek battle skirt. Give us tall women and short women, thin, fat, in between, couch potatoes in sweatsuits, athleates in leotards. Normal humans in normal clothes because while some people will wear a belly shirt and a mini skirt, or a chainmail bikini, not everyone will.



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