Current mood:	Grouchy
Current music:	The ninety-minutes-after-dawn chorus.

Women, oppressed? Surely not!
Some of you may have vague memories of some recent bother over a cute statue. No? Well, it hardly drew much attention.

Others, however, are not so quick to forget. So when, over on scans_daily, bloodsend makes a post featuring a somewhat objectified image of the male form, reactions are varied.

Some find it a turn-off. Some (presumably having noticed that, hey, this is exactly what a masculine version of Wonder Woman's costume would look like) are amused. Various people declare their undying love for Gail Simone, rumoured to be responsible (the picture is rapidly revealed to be fanart).

radiumhead decides to make a stand for the rights of his oppressed gender.

I dont wanna hear shit about that Mary Jane statue anymore.Women (and gay guys) got this thing.We're even.

(All punctuation his)

Shockingly, several women can't seem to accept that this charming picture makes up for not only the aforementioned statue, but also the fact that about 80%* of female comic-book characters wear, or have worn in the past, a similar costume (and had their bodies drawn in a similar way).

clayin fails to see how cool it is to put women in thongs or, indeed, how horrendous it is to do exactly the same thing to men.

sinyaa makes the basic point succintly. Luckily, radiumhead has a counterpoint: the world needs women to be objectified, in ways it doesn't need men.

... Yeah, that was pretty much my reaction too.

Anyway, the reactions to this are varied enough to require the mod to step in, politely and with admirable even-handedness (please don't ban me for taking this to fandom_wank, rabican!).

ceru_see explains to radiumhead that he is interrogating his fanboy lust (and fangirl lust) from the wrong perspective.

Meanwhile, radiumhead is explaining that he was just joking. Also, it doesn't matter because it's only fanart, and he doesn't have a problem with the gays. Look, some of his best friends favourite comics are gay!

mrinsane wins the thread.

It seems to have run its course fairly quickly (between midnight and six o'clock this morning), but it was amusing while it lasted.

And some good points were made.

*A conservative estimate, I know. But I'm pretty sure that quite a few have never exposed their midriffs in battle)