[ SECRET POST #2601 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2601 ⌋

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Comments

[truxillogical]

And that's a position I can understand; I just think it's kind of a shame. It's sort of the Emma Frost conundrum: Emma Frost absolutely would dress in a white corset and sexy clothes. It perfectly fits her character and the kind of person she is--a woman who is completely confident in her power and sexuality who enjoys playing mind games and keeping people off balance, and who has a dominating edge. Put her in a blue-and-yellow jumpsuit and she looks wrong. BUUUUUUUT...if you dress most ladies like Emma Frost, then you're not really setting her apart and making her special. Now it's just The Way You Draw Ladies, and apparently, The Way You Draw Ladies is kinda gross.

Peej and Dinah fit their boob window and fishnets respectively. There's just something about them that work for the sort of characters they are. Some women do dress like that, after all (and in Dinah's case, I feel like the fishnets add this sort of punky street brawler vibe. Couldn't say why). I get why people might "take them less seriously" but that's kind of a shame. No one takes Namor less seriously for running around in a speedo, because it makes sense for the kind of character he is (although, yes, more artists should take advantage of that swimmers build and all...)

[iceyred]

You nailed it on the why I find it skeevy. Too many women are drawn like that and it becomes less about the character and more about 'hurrdurr tits.'

Another reason is that were I a superhero, y'all would see me in a t-shirt and a pair of camo cargo pants. With boots. Y'know, practical crime-fighting stuff. I just can't suspend my disbelief enough to accept that someone wants to run around a city fighting crime while dressed in a thong and tube top.

[truxillogical]

Well, yes and no, then. I would opt for some loose-fitting-but-not-snagging combat clothes myself. Because I'm me. With characters like Emma, Peej, and Dinah, it is about the character, and their costume choices work for them. I can't suspend my disbelief that a character who is like me would wear a bathing suit or a boob window, so I see what Kate Bishop and Kitty Pride and Huntress (sans belly window) and Catwoman (in her Brubaker days) wear, and I think, "Yup, it's a character who's pragmatic and doesn't worry much about her interaction with/impression on others," because in certain aspects, I see myself in those characters. In Dinah and Peej and Emma, I see myself as well, but also in a sense of "If I were more like that person, what would I be wearing? That? ... Yeah, actually, I think so."

I mean, if we're talking t-shirt and cargo pants level, then pretty much no superheroes are wearing practical clothes. I've seen enough IRL dudes in spandex to know that much. It seems almost as bad, though not in a skeevy way, to want all the heroes to dress practically across the board. Design choices that work for the character, it's what it comes down to.