Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Thor lady

 Clearly I am practicing on opinions that are easy, like the packaging rant, before I work my way up to the big opinions. Ranting over a comic book - a comic book I've never even seen in my life is certainly a simple place to start. Still I did see the drawing or the new female Thor that went with the major headline -because it is major news that Thor is now going to be a woman.
 A big hulking Thor like female. Naturally the flowing hair doesn't distinguish her from the guy Thor at all. In fact from the picture just like Thor except for the really large Teutonic breasts -very worthy of any Wagnerian opera star. In comic book world -from my very limited experience - those are what makes a woman. Otherwise, while even your average male (of Northern European descent at least) could in certainly lights look like a member of the same genus as Thor, "she" looks nothing like any human female I've ever seen even on professional wrestling (again I can claim only limited experience).
The Thor lady drawing had a kind of freak show need to look until I realized it was the combination of breasts and gigantic steroidal muscles that was the freakish part. Does that make me a sexist? Because I am bothered by a woman Thor? Well I suppose it would if I was bothered by a woman Thor. Then again maybe I am but that's a topic for another day because right now I am simply bothered by calling that breasted thing a female.
  And I'm confused. How is this some sort of step forward for women's rights? Or the perception of women? Or even Valkyries for that matter, given that this Thor makes them look like Barney Fife by comparison?  Barbie is a positively realistic representation of the female form compared to the new Thor, whose hammer worthiness could have only come about by some large doses of steroids... and breast implants. I thought when I was growing up (long long ago) I knew what the feminist movement was about. Women - the female of the species, the same species I belonged to and the same gender. I was wrong. I have no idea what it is about, at least not if anyone can claim this as progress.
 So to sum up I am wasting time complaining that a new comic strip character is unrealistic. Also that when the doll comes out ("figure") it will probably be sold in clam shell packaging which is hard on manicures.

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