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February 15, 2011

Things that bother me when I tell people I don’t like X-Force v3

emmahouxbois:

sistervenom:

Their response is almost always: “Oh, I just read it because X-23’s hot.”

Bask in the absurdity of that statement for a minute. Let it marinate…good? Okay, because it’s about to get worse.

WITHOUT FAIL the guys who tells me this after I go into detail about what I don’t like about it (let’s just say what I do like about it is that Mike Choi drew several issues and…that’s about it) and they reply with that—without fail: the guys in question are in their late twenties. Talking about how they want to have sex with a sixteen-year-old girl. Then again, one of those guys went on about how he was going to train me to be a “proper” comic fan (i.e. I read comics with my bare hands and not with gloves like he does)—and, yes, “train” was his exact wording. Furthermore, when constantly bitching for no valid reason about a character who’s important to me after I politely told him to stop calling him “Douchester Gold” at least while I’m around—but, uh, I’m getting off-topic.

Basically, I find it sexist and rude and disgusting that your only defense for a shoddily-written series is “Lolol this underage girl is hot and I want to have sex with her so I read this book.” Especially when the people saying it are pushing thirty.

I’m not sure that I’m ready to accept that this is reality. I mean yeah, I can count on one hand the number of straight cis male comic book fans that I respect and will give the time of day to but this is getting into Deliverance territory.

I have found the most disgusting things while looking for X-23 art on the internet. There are fanboys in their 20s and 30s all over the place talking about how totally hawt Laura is and how much they want to fuck her, and how sexy she was in X-Force (where, as Jamie pointed out, she was A SIXTEEN YEAR OLD GIRL, and where she spent a good chunk of time being tortured and psychologically abused). IT REALLY SUCKS BEING A (FEMALE, YOUNG, MENTALLY ILL) X-23 FAN SOMETIMES, IS ALL I CAN SAY.

One of the things I hate the most about mainstream superhero comics is the institutionalized ephebophilia. All those creepy older male fans are enabled by all the creepy older male creators. On Marvel’s side X-23 is the most notable subject of this, and over at DC it’s Supergirl and Mary Marvel, but most teenage superheroines have been subject to this at one point or another and it’s. So. Creepy.

Of course, in this respect comics are pretty much a reflection of American society as a whole. I kinda wonder whether there isn’t a link between our culture’s “the younger she is, the hotter” mentality and its foaming hysteria over the subject of sex offenders, but it’s way too late at night for me to mull this over right now.

(I hope this isn’t a derail and will delete my post if previous participants feel it is.)

(Source: reptiliannes)

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