I disagree to everyone who's said that it's to distract men. That might work if they were in a strip club, but the fact that a guy would be totally overwhelmed by his hormones in the middle of a firefight is a bit outlandish. Like that guy in the example. Is it really plausible that he "didn't notice" that she had a six-foot sword strapped to her ass? I mean, sure, it might make men a little more off-balance for the first twenty seconds, but do you really think that the people who are tasked wit defending the world are gonna lose a battle because they wanted to scope out some boobs? That's a little far-fetched.
To everyone who has said something to the effect that all men who draw comics are pigs, and they only give girls skimpy outfits because they want to have something to jack too. (I'm going to assume most of you are women.) Girls like seeing that stuff too! Why do you think the girls on the front of Seventeen and Glamor magazines have about twenty layers of airbrushes and are always shown in sexually provocative positions? Girls like to see what they "should" look like, and will do pretty much anything to obtain that.
Also, I know there are individual exceptions to this. Some girls feel sick every time they see one of those models. And I'm not trying to deny that guys like to see girls stripped down. Sexy girls have just become sort of a false benchmark for our culture. It's like the paparazzi. Sure, their methods are distasteful and they violate personal privacy, but if they don't get those pictures, then people will buy the magazine who did. For all the hate the public gives them, do we really go "Oh no! The paparazzi took that compromising picture of Brittney Spears! I won't buy that magazine now!" No, we don't. We buy it anyway. The same goes for these girls. It's a false assumption that every woman has a five-inch waist with a thousand-inch bust. However, those are the girls that are plastered everywhere. If those girls are in a comic, we might think it to be a little bit odd, but we'll still buy the comic. If a comic was filled with thousands of copies of Susan Boyle, would we really want ot read it?
I guess what I would really like would be if the females looked attractive without making it a point of it's own. (Like most guys, I think it's a little embarrassing when men are portrayed as hormone-driven idiots with no self control.) I wish that girls would look nice, but not fakey and plastic, and be able to be attractive without their super-uniforms being a g-string and a bra with some super-logo stamped on it.
Uh-oh. I think that my joke about all women being feminists just made all of my valid points disappear. Shit.
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