Photo 19 Jun 981 notes gingerhaze:

today’s twitter topic was practical boob armor.


I need this. For science, or whatever.
-Satya

gingerhaze:

today’s twitter topic was practical boob armor.

I need this. For science, or whatever.

-Satya

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cathywhut asked: So I love your blog and I think it's great. It's fun reading the responses and seeing all these pictures of women and theyre strange breasts. But I want to know what your opinion is on drawings of women that are clearly unrealistic. Like the anatomy is cartoony and is supposed to be ridiculous (just look at some of my drawings/pinups) what do you think of those? In regular comics (like DC and Marvel) theyre going for realistic anatomy but what if it's just how that artist draws women?

That’s a great question! It’s actually something Satya and I have discussed before and something I’ve been trying to make a post about for a while now.

Often times we get submissions that I believe don’t really belong here because they are so stylized. Sometimes an artist who has a good handle on anatomy will purposefully play with it, exaggerating somethings to achieve an effect that they want. You can’t really criticize someone for not accurately depicting female anatomy when that’s not what they set out to do in the first place.

Satya however made a really great point. She mentioned that a lot of female body types are stylized for the sole purpose of sexualization, which over time becomes normalized and damaging.

What this means to me is this: Cheesecake for the sake of cheesecake is something I don’t have a problem with. You enjoy drawing and looking at pinup art? Cool! That’s all good (had a browse through your tumblr, and quite like your stuff actually). However if all the female characters in a story are drawn like pinup girls regardless of their character or function in a story, then the stylization becomes a real issue.

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satyabear:

eschergirls:

I’ve been putting off writing this for a while because my personality is such that I get really scared people think I’m egotistical or that it’s really unfair for me to ask for stuff. :\

But basically I don’t really have a job anymore, and I’m having money issues because of it, so I’m just pointing out if you want to, and can afford it, and you like Escher Girls, that there’s a paypal donate button on the sidebar of Escher Girls, and I would really appreciate anything people could donate. :)

I’ve always had the donate button on the sidebar as a tip jar, but I never pointed it out because I don’t want people to think I expect to be paid for running EG or anything (obviously, I don’t), but just right now with everything going on w/ my life, I wanted to point it out just in case some people didn’t know, and that it would really help me out.

Thank you so much :)

Ami

I absolutely love Escher Girls guys, and if there’s anything you could do to help Ami out I’m sure it would be much appreciated!

-Satya

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I would like it if you could explain the difference between the two of these things in detail (unless your original post did that, in which case never mind).
Oh yeah I can do that! The post I had responded to originally had gone into detail about it some so I didn’t think to fully explain myself over here. That was silly. My apologizes.
Basically, most women are sexual beings. They enjoy sex and maybe even enjoy dressing in sexy outfits and being awesome. That’s cool. That’s a perfectly cool way to be and a perfectly cool kind of character to write.
The first picture I posted is a page from Astonishing X-men. And this is a scene that takes place right before Kitty Pryde and Colossus have sex. She’s wearing what shes’ wearing and she’s standing the way shes standing because of very clear choices her character has made base on very clear motivations that are relevant to the story. Kitty isn’t posing here for anyone but Colossus. Basically Kitty is being depicted sexually here because it’s a story about her sexuality.
On the other hand you have Black Widow, who’s  body is all bent and contorted in a rather silly way, not because it was something her character would do, not because it was the most dynamic pose even, but because the artist wanted to get her tits and ass in the same shot for the enjoyment of the reader. The Black Widow is being depicted sexually for someone else enjoyment.
I hope I that helps.

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Anonymous asked: How is it slut-shaming to be pointing out that a female character is scantily-clad because her horny male creator drew her that way? Female characters are not real, they have no agency, and being dressed in a way to titillate guys removes the illusion that they can be real.

That’s a really good question, and to answer it I’m going to combine a couple things  I posted on my personal blog on response to that comic ( that I believe you are responding to.)

I  think there is a huge difference between a sexual woman. And a woman as a sexual object. 

Does this character enjoy expressing their own sexuality and makes their decisions based on their own desires? COOL!

Is this character more of a prop whose sexuality exists solely for the enjoyment of others (or the reader)? Icky.

For example:

This is a representation of a woman as a sexual being.

And this an example of a woman as a sexual object.

I do think that confusing the two could lead to slut shaming attitudes, but for the most part, you are right. Criticizing the way a creator chooses to a portray their female characters isn’t inhearntly slut shaming.

Text 5 Jun 13 notes Here’s a Gem

SUBMISSION: lilaxthegreat

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This is from Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic. Apparently based off of the Old World or something, but apparently it’s ridiculously fanservicey as shown.

WELL that’s a 

thing

-Satya

Video 5 Jun 66,306 notes

 

dabokitty:

feminspire:

alyssakorea:

Tumbling over the past year and a half has made me see the problems of gender roles that exist in media, but sometimes it gets to the point where I over analyze every single piece of television or film that I come across. (However this in no way means that I think feminist media criticism is wrong, or should be avoided!) Mostly I just over think everything.

This is awesome!

Oh god, my life.

Sort of relevant?

Sorry for the lack of posts everyone- I’ve started my summer job and studying for MCATS so I’m quite busy! I’ll try to queue up some posts today! 

-Satya

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albinwonderland:

kateordie:

Suffer for fashion, or whatever

how breasts actually work

via Sarlett.
Video 23 May 1,240 notes

Have I ever mentioned how much I loved Tamora Pierce’s books when I was younger? No? I’m mentioning it now. Thanks to the illustrators for making reasonable and gorgeous drawings of young women! Also thanks, Tamora Pierce, for literally making me the person I am today.

-Satya


PS: You apparently visited my college the year before I started there and I’m heartbroken. Ah, well. Mastiff was beautiful.

(Source: elbyx)

via welcome.
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Anonymous asked: I have to agree that women are often put into demeaning positions in the media - especially video games. However, in some situations, could the role of the female simply be the artist's vision? The main character (who is often the leader) can be male or female, and the side characters (often weaker, non-independent) can be male or female as well. I believe that 9/10 the artist doesn't have sexism in their mind while creating their art. Someone's gotta be the main - male or female.

I’m not quite sure what you mean about “the artist’s vision”? Of course it is, everything an artist produces is their “vision”… but maybe I’m misunderstanding you here.

I think people oftentimes forget that people, like… never have sexism “in their mind” when they’re producing a product. The whole point of sexism is that it’s subliminal. Similar conversations recently on FeministDisney about racism being subconscious: here and here. Issues like these are subconscious because they’re normalized- which is why we need to work extra hard to push back.

Also, just because a dude’s the main character doesn’t mean something’s sexist. Similarly, just because a woman is the main character doesn’t make something feminist. The issues are much greater than who’s the main character, as I hope this blog helps to point out.

Thanks for the ask!
-Satya 


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