God Bless Frank Cho

To your last point, of course it is important to try and influence others to take your side. But the ones calling it sexist are the ones who are polarizing. No one wants to be sexist, it is an awful thing to be, and you can argue semantics, but that is how most normal people feel. When you suddenly accuse something of being sexist, it is a dogwhistle. It is saying "This thing is awful, distance yourself from it or you are also awful, come to me my minions."

And everyone feels like that about their own creations. The man made a character and someone made them look seductive, that's weird. If I created a character and someone did that I'd feel the same way. That doesn't put any more weight into my opinion, it in fact LESSENS my argument because I obviously come from a very biased standpoint in the issue.

Also, while Spider-Gwen is phenomenal, let us not try to plead to authority, and let us CERTAINLY not plead to poor authorities like Cameron Stewart and other johnny-come-lately fair-weather-allies.

Also, I take umbrage with your reference to my ham sandwich remark. Your relation to "Smacking Women's Asses" is again a dirty tactic. That is an implicitly aggressive action, there is no context where randomly slapping asses is not sexist. Comics are like Ham Sandwiches in this regard, because they are not inherently ANYTHING. They are only what is put into them, and some people do put sexist shit into comics, and I'm happy to rail on them. But this cover isn't sexist, it isn't an attack on anyone, it is just a teenage girl posed in a 'sultry-spider' pose, one that you can find Spider-Man (a sixteen year old in certain stories/universes, might I remind you) in often albeit slightly more masculine.

I'd love to bring up Nightwing as well, but I know the prevailing argument is then "Oh well when we women do it, it is great because ____, that makes it completely different even though it is the exact same thing."

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