A Bunch Of People Asked Me To Make This Rebloggable, So…Not trying to pick on the anon, but I...

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 personification of female objectification. How is a skimpy chain-mail bikini practical? Why didn’t you re-design her image? This is what we get from “the top female artists in the industry”?
 Anonymous

We told the ‘top female artists in the industry’ that they could draw Sonja in whatever outfit they wanted. Not one of them was given a mandate or even a SUGGESTION to draw her in the chain mail bikini.

Every single one chose the bikini, every single one, independent, mainstream, and cartoonist, they all chose that outfit. 

The idea that I can’t be a feminist and like a female warrior in a particular outfit is just downright obnoxious. I LIKE that the Marvel sword and sorcery heroes of that period, like Conan and Sonja, wore few encumbrances, it appeals to my sense of freedom for the characters.

She’s going to wear lots of outfits. But seriously, telling all these female artists they aren’t feminist because you disagree about Sonja’s outfit, that doesn’t seem a little arrogant to you?