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[bluepard]

DC has decided on a pants for superheroines mandate, annoying the male fanbase while missing the point of the female fanbase's complaints. It occurred to me today that you can't make up for years of superheroines wearing their underwear to work just by giving them pants. If you truly want to balance it out, the male supers should be going around

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[originalkitsune]

If it was like the Magneto from Xmen first class...hell yeah i can do with pants-less. :3

[bluepard]

I still haven't seen that movie! And I'm not sure why I thought of Magneto first, I think it's the absurdity. Also, he probably could make it hot.

[originalkitsune]

You should see it for the eyecandy and LOLz...the script is so ham-fisted it's ridonkulous! Young proff X was like a cross between a nerd and Austin Powers. He actually spouted "groovy" several times. My ears hurt.

[bluepard]

Hahahawhat? No one told me that! Everyone seems to be taking it seriously.

[vejiicakes]

If it makes any difference... you should totally do a series of these.

I've long thought that the difference in coverage between the male and female costumes were so easy to bridge the gap--really the only difference most of the time was simple coloration--the linework on the costumes of Superman's and Wonder Woman's costumes look the same, just that they bother to color-fill Supes' legs and not WW's.

Still, even if DC's new mandate isn't exactly an equal match to what it's proposing to fix, there is some part of me that's just a little pleased that after years of male fans retorting to complaints of skimpy female costumes with "well the guys' costumes are still tight and show off their bodies too", their annoyance with superheroines' newfound pants can essentially be met with the same argument now.

[bluepard]

I could probably whip up some photoshops easily, which might make it better. Ohh, but I shouldn't. But I might.

I don't think I know any male comic book fans who even pretend they care. Most of them are being loudly annoyed at DC pretending that they care.

[vejiicakes]

You should. You really should. It'll be fun.

Sssso it's less about the costume redesigns themselves, and more about the paltry effort DC is putting forth? I mean, I totally have more than a few bones to pick with DC in instituting this reboot. But when DC putting up a token "heyyy no uh, we totally care about this" at least results in something being done about it, I'm not sure I can find it in me to be annoyed at them for putting that forth (at least when presumably, the alternative is inaction, just because fans find that more.. truthful?)

I'm not sure that sentence made sense.

[bluepard]

Well, we'll see if my attention span wins out?

From what I've seen, it's something like "Now you've made everything suck just to appease a bunch of girls." So they think DC shouldn't redesign or try to cater to women. That is the impression I get from mainstream comic guy forums, anyway.