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trickykittyAgent Carter
"Still, today’s superheroines, like their female victim counterparts, are often unrealistic, sexualized representations of female figures, with large chests, curvaceous backsides and unattainable hourglass dimensions. Their skin-tight outfits accentuate their sexuality with plunging necklines and bare skin, and many of their names (e.g., Risque, Mystique, Ruby Summers) connote, shall we say, a slightly less respectable profession than superheroine."
I'm detecting some bias on the part of the author of that article, but the results of the scientific inquiry on which she's reporting aren't surprising.
This is why watching Agent Carter on television was very eye opening compared with other damsels in distress and superheroines alike. The show wasted no effort on putting up for naked display the prevailing attitudes of the time regarding women and their capabilities right from the beginning of the first episode. Another noticeable thing was how our heroine had to dress conservatively in a conservative society, while at the same time rocking an hour glass figure that ALL of the X-Men size two heroines should kill to have. Not to mention, her fighting garb is far from skin tight anything.
I would like to see these same tests run with stills of Agent Carter being the main focus, but the real one-two punch comes from watching the character in action. I think all girls and women should have a go at the show, because I actually think, even without scientific tests to back it up, that the show does a fine job of painting real-life heroism in a more correct light.
"Still, today’s superheroines, like their female victim counterparts, are often unrealistic, sexualized representations of female figures, with large chests, curvaceous backsides and unattainable hourglass dimensions. Their skin-tight outfits accentuate their sexuality with plunging necklines and bare skin, and many of their names (e.g., Risque, Mystique, Ruby Summers) connote, shall we say, a slightly less respectable profession than superheroine."
I'm detecting some bias on the part of the author of that article, but the results of the scientific inquiry on which she's reporting aren't surprising.
This is why watching Agent Carter on television was very eye opening compared with other damsels in distress and superheroines alike. The show wasted no effort on putting up for naked display the prevailing attitudes of the time regarding women and their capabilities right from the beginning of the first episode. Another noticeable thing was how our heroine had to dress conservatively in a conservative society, while at the same time rocking an hour glass figure that ALL of the X-Men size two heroines should kill to have. Not to mention, her fighting garb is far from skin tight anything.
I would like to see these same tests run with stills of Agent Carter being the main focus, but the real one-two punch comes from watching the character in action. I think all girls and women should have a go at the show, because I actually think, even without scientific tests to back it up, that the show does a fine job of painting real-life heroism in a more correct light.
