The blogosphere is railing against the above image as sexualizing a teenage girl through an upskirt image.
Have these people never been to a high school football game? This is as upskirt as watching the cheerleaders do all their somewhat-acrobatic moves.
But more directly to the superhero costume design: who really thinks of the super-heroine skirt as a true, functional skirt? It is just flair for the costume. What is under the skirt is just as much panties as what Wonder Woman wears or early Robin wore.
Sometimes, I feel like certain folks want to see an offense where there is none, just so they can fire off some righteous indignation.
(FYI: this is the blog that brought the whole thing to my attention)
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Much Ado About A Non-Upskirt
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Righteous, smiteous, I just spanked it. Short skirt + boots = HOT
ReplyDeleteYou must admit, however, that it is a rather... "framed" upskirt, with the lightning and all.
ReplyDeletePanty shot or not, it still screams "LOOK! VAGOO!"
I don't know about the vagoo part, but I still think the whole "she's a teenage girl!!!!!1!!" part of the outrage is just silly, as is the attempt to make it an honest-to-goodness skeevy upskirt. The blogosphere brouhaha is trying to amp up the potential degree of perversion to more than can actually be found in reality.
ReplyDeleteAm I the only one that went "Damn Alex Ross is still the man." Seriously I didn't notice the panty shot till after.
ReplyDeleteAnd Ross isn't one to ignore the panties, I mean look at the Gatchaman art he did for the dvd re-release they did a few years back. ( ex: http://www.amazingcomics.it/alex_ross_1.jpg>) Straight up skirt of Swan right there.
At least he gave her panties this time. Unlike that cover painting of Cyclone on Justice Society a while back. HEY! She was a teenager too! OMG, could Alex Ross be a pervert???
ReplyDeleteIt's creepy. If it were a 24 year old supergirl, it'd be creepy too.
ReplyDeleteThe fact that MM is a teenager, though, does make it creepier.
D'oh! How did I miss you commenting here, Asterios?
ReplyDeleteI think it is debatable, at this point, what MM's age is. But, IMO, it is just as creepy as seeing someone at the beach in a one piece that has trimming made to look like a skirt. YMMV, obviously.