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the ultimate in alien terror.: help! sexism vs. objectification

I think Ross has some really good points. The best way I can explain how I feel about the subject is using Poison Ivy as an example. Poison Ivy is supposed to be a sexy super hero villain. It’s her ability to kill people through kissing/sex that makes her a likable, interesting character. However, since all the other female super hero/ villainous characters are equally sexy, Poison Ivy she looses contrast. If Cat woman and Poison Ivy were standing next to each other, I would pick Cat woman any day.

Of course Poison Ivy has a essence about her that hypnotizes people. I know it’s more than looks, but if she really was the most beautiful character in the DC universe, she’d be most more convincing. And enchanting. It just kind of highlights the kind of writing comic creators use when making stories for DC. It shows that they aren’t thinking based off of facts within the fictional reality, but more so the fan service.

It’s not sexist to make Poison Ivy sexy. That’s her character. However if everyone else is, too, it’s going to make the audience feel that the women are objectified versus being constructed based on their personal stories.

mooncalfe:

a few friends and i were discussing sexism and cheesecake in Big Two superhero comics recently (what else is new!), and it was mostly us trying to convey the usual concepts of sexual objectification to somebody who was fighting us on it (the common “superhero comics are for men” defense and…

  1. queenofswordsinverted said: I feel like sexism is a system of oppression based on sex/gender which may or may not involve sexualization, and sexual objectification can sometimes fall outside of the scope of sexism and may have to do w/other factors (age/body type/race etc)
  2. cheamolar reblogged this from 8bitmaximo
  3. thebravecombo reblogged this from 8bitmaximo
  4. misspixnmix said: I think sexism is much broader than objectification. Someone may have an instance of objectifying their girlfriend in a particular outfit, in a fun and flirty way, but it’s not until that becomes a pattern of inequality/disrespect that it’s sexist.
  5. jadiejadie reblogged this from 8bitmaximo and added:
    Also like to add as a fan of Empowered, and a girl, I always thought Emp was a bit of a deconstruction of female...
  6. deemoncat reblogged this from mooncalfe
  7. deemoncat said: Can’t think of anything to say that isn’t redundant. XD I pretty much agree that it seems like objectification is something that happens because of sexism.
  8. 8bitmaximo reblogged this from mooncalfe and added:
    I pretty much agree, Let’s put it this way, If I masturbate to a picture of a lady or dude, that’s objectification, I’m...
  9. imaginetheending reblogged this from mooncalfe and added:
    I think Ross has some really good points. The best way I can explain how I feel about the subject is using Poison Ivy as...
  10. thestray said: Sexism and objectification. Objectification is a symptom of sexism so to speak. Kind of like discrimination is a symptom of racism.
  11. october-eightyeight said: “sexism is more of a system of patterns whereas sexual objectification is the act that is part of that system”. I agree with that. So drawing women to be sexual objects, quite disproportionately, is an effect of the larger system of sexism.
  12. rhymeswithnothing said: semantics perhaps? To me objectification is rooted in sexism but the dynamics change when it’s men vs women?
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