re: San Diego Comic-Con Mega-Thread: Updates and Discussion

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But we are talking about an industry whose target market is teenage boys, which leads to a lot of stupid over-sexualization of characters

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There definitely is a lot of oversexualization, but it isn't as if that just happened and it pushed all the female fans out of the market. The reason it happened is because there were no female fans.

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Psylocke is actually one of the more egregious historical examples - she went from a conservative and modest British lady to a sleek Asian-ish killer who wear next to nothing.

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Hey! She has always been Asian. You trying to say that a Brit can't be Asian as well? fricking racist.

I will admit her costume has gotten skimpier over the years though.

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It's progress, but the list of legitimately interesting, well-rounded female characters in the superhero universe is still rather small.

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The real problem is, how do you approach this? Should we make fat female superheroes to avoid over-sexualizing the characters? Should the character be a hardcore feminist?

I can damn near guarantee that those comics wouldn't sell.

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And it was funny that Comic Con made a bunch of Marvel fanboys sit through the lecture. Probably the people who most needed to hear it, and were least likely to listen.

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You know no one payed any attention to that lecture.