{"id":25493,"date":"2012-01-16T21:26:10","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T04:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/16\/justice-league-gender-flipped.html"},"modified":"2015-05-08T11:29:04","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T17:29:04","slug":"justice-league-gender-flipped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/16\/justice-league-gender-flipped.html","title":{"rendered":"Justice League, gender-flipped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reaction 1: &quot;Wow, there&#39;s only two guys there.&quot;<br \/>Reaction 2: &quot;Look how much clothes they&#39;re wearing&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Dear DC. Really, look at this, and look at those two more or less sequential reactions from me, who reads several of your books each week.<\/p>\n<p>1. I&#39;d like more female superheroes, please.<br \/>2. I&#39;d like them to wear clothes.<\/p>\n<p>I like a bit of cheesecake as much as the next red-blooded heterosexual guy, but DC women, on a whole, show an excessive and unrealistic amount of skin.  compare Superman and Supergirl (or Power Girl for that matter).  Batgirl and Batwoman are fully clothed, but BatFamily Huntress often isn&#39;t (and Catwoman &#8230; see earlier comments).  Not a lot of female speedsters, but Jesse Quick was wearing full pants for a long time, until someone decided she should run in short-shorts instead.  There are plenty of fully clothed female Green Lanterns &#8212; and plenty of nigh-nekkid female ones (very few nigh-nekkid male ones, unless they&#39;re meant to be showing off their roid-rage hypermasculinity).  <\/p>\n<p>Of the ones below, the Martian Manhuntress is the most reasonable &#8212; because, until recently, Martian Manhunter was mostly barechested, too.<\/p>\n<p>Believe me, I&#39;ve designed a lot of pretty cool female superheroes in City of Heroes &#8212; and very few of them are bearing a lot of skin.<\/p>\n<p>(This applies to Marvel, too, but, oddly, not as much.) #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fcache.io9.com%2Fassets%2Fimages%2F8%2F2012%2F01%2F6122d8531031154fed92f1b5a69e5670.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/io9.com\/5876195\/gender+bent-justice-league-gets-a-comic-book-look'>Gender-bent Justice League gets a comic book look<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tInspired by the Gender Bent Justice League cosplayers at last year&#39;s San Diego Comic-Con, artist Yasmin Liang decided to create a comic book-style illustration of the gender-flipped superheroes.<br \/>\nLiang&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reaction 1: &quot;Wow, there&#39;s only two guys there.&quot;Reaction 2: &quot;Look how much clothes they&#39;re wearing&quot; Dear DC. Really, look at this, and look at those two more or less sequential reactions from me, who reads several of your books each week. 1. I&#39;d like more female superheroes, please.2. I&#39;d like them to wear clothes. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/16\/justice-league-gender-flipped.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Justice League, gender-flipped&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,11,348,8],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-25493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-comics","category-women","category-zt-pc","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25043,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/03\/comic-book-covers-from-2011.html","url_meta":{"origin":25493,"position":0},"title":"Comic Book Covers from 2011","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 3-Jan-12 6:53pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Some great choices here from one of my favorite comics blogs. #ddtb Embedded Link DC Women Kicking Ass - The 10 best DC Comics covers of 2011 with female characters The 10 best DC Comics covers of 2011 with female characters Researching this post was like riding a rollercoaster. 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