exjade
replied to your post “Women NEVER Get To Be Spider Jerusalem”

with all due respect: if anything, the problem with the depiction of women in the media is that they are overly sexualized and depicted as ‘hot and sexy’ physically even when realistically they are meant to look more like human beings… I hardly think the problem is that female characters are depicted as being ‘too unsexy.’ Men can be important regardless of their looks, but women always have to be young and look a certain way, with major emphasis on their naked bodies

What? WHAT?

Did you even READ the original post?

The point was that women in media are “sexy but have no sexual agency” also “women are never allowed to be sexual but unsexy” and a bunch of other stuff.

Like Spider Jerusalem is NOT a sexy character.  He’s a pent up weird looking chronic masturbator who saves the day with a ray gun that makes people poop themselves.  Where in this post did I ever suggest that female characters are depicted as too unsexy?

I mean have you seen Spider Jerusalem?

I also talk about how women never get to be naked but unsexy, like so:

That is not a sexy naked person (to most people) he’s not sexualized, he’s just naked, and weird looking.  I want women to be able to be naked and weird looking and unsexy.

How come a woman depicted in the same way is always arching her damned back and has magic boobs and no stomach creases.  Show me a scrawny aging heavy smoker with leathery skin like that, and make her the fucking coolest.  I want women to be able to be ugly naked in media and not be a joke.

The point is that he’s haggard looking and weird looking and YOU STILL FUCKING WANT TO BE HIM BECAUSE HE IS SO COOL but also he can be naked and it’s not sexy because nothing about him is sexy.

Also the REAL point of that post was that women have to be “nice” and “likable” and absurdly pure of heart to be heroines.  They can never be morally complex, difficult, unpleasant or anything but angelic, or well they can but it’s rare (though we’re seeing it more, also women getting to be ridiculous and over the top and funny in a way historically reserved for men).