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December 23, 2010 3:59 am @JumpingJupiter  Thanks for letting me know. I'd have been wondering otherwise.

December 22, 2010 10:55 am @JumpingJupiter Admit it - Power Girl turns you on. You love tits.

December 22, 2010 10:52 am @conor  The contradiction is that he says he doesn't want pornographic costumes, which he defines as those which stimulate sexual excitement, then he says the reason he likes one of his favorite characters is that she is sexually exciting.

The error in his logic is that not everything which is sexually exciting is pornography. A sexy woman walking fully clothed down the street is not pornography.

Therefore I agree with you that something being sexually exciting does not make it exploitative. That was my criticism of the article. She allows for female characters to be sexually desirable but she does not want them to be mainly or only sexually desirable, or too overtly sexually desirable. But Power Girl, Supergirl and Wonder Woman are not only sexually desirable nor are they too evertly so. I mean, just because PG has big boobs and shows cleavage, or SG has a short skirt as part of her costume? Come off it. It doesn't make them bimbos. The costumes are will within current standards of decency - as costumes.

December 22, 2010 2:04 am @JumpingJupiter  Yes

"...what I want are female characters with costume designs that aren't pornographiv=c."

"Kate is hot in that costume, aw yeah! Hotter than any other character in any costume that I know. Kate Spencer is a huge geek fantasy for me."

"pornography n. !. things, pictures, films etc. designed to stimulate sexual excitement"

The above is an example of the same kind of vague, self-contradictory logic the article is full of.

The double post is not my fault and I can't delete it.

December 21, 2010 3:41 am @Kirkerson  "...women don't have little ability to control how women are represented"

Women have more control than anybody else over how they are represented - they dress themselves. The industry isn't as "male-dominated" as you think. "Male dominated" is just the feminist word for amywhere from 49.9 % down.

December 21, 2010 3:38 am @CaseyJustice  Many superheroines with costumes which expose their legs don't even have skirts. They are effectively wearing only panties. Supergirl once didn't have a skirt, Superman doesn't have a skirt. Female rapeze artists, gymnasts, acrobats, skaters, athletes, dancers and swimmers don't have skirts. What's your point?

December 21, 2010 3:25 am @powerdad  Of courrse females pose differently to males. Females have innately different bodies to males. Women walk, run, talk, dance, and throw differently to males, What's your point?

December 21, 2010 3:06 am @CaseyJustice  So comic book characters have to be practical and make sense for you to read them? What about superman's cape then? Not the most practical thing for fighting and all the other stuff he does. The whole idea of super powers doesn't make sense. It's comics! Half the things you listed aren't impractical anyway. Power Girl's cleavage window doesn't get in the way of her doing anything. Nor does something necessarily have to "make sense" - not everything has a functional pr purposeful reason behind it, especially in entertainment.

December 21, 2010 3:06 am @CaseyJustice  So comic book characters have to be practical and make sense for you to read them? What about superman's cape then? Not the most practical thing for fighting and all the other stuff he does. The whole idea of super powers doesn't make sense. It's comics! Half the things you listed aren't impractical anyway. Power Girl's cleavage window doesn't get in the way of her doing anything. Nor does something necessarily have to "make sense" - not everything has a functional pr purposeful reason behind it, especially in entertainment.