{"id":467,"date":"2006-05-10T14:35:38","date_gmt":"2006-05-10T13:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=467"},"modified":"2008-07-18T23:50:23","modified_gmt":"2008-07-18T22:50:23","slug":"super-objects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/05\/10\/super-objects\/","title":{"rendered":"Super-objects!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/odditycollector.livejournal.com\/97166.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/green_lantern.jpg\" id=\"image468\" alt=\"green_lantern.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s nothing new about the observation that American superhero comics are often stupidly sexist. The tendency to depict women in superhero comics as little more than super-powered fetish figures increased considerably during the 1990s, so much so that at one time <em>The Comics Journal<\/em> was making a regular note each issue of recent covers showing women with breasts larger than their heads. <a href=\"http:\/\/odditycollector.livejournal.com\/97166.html\" target=\"_blank\">This Livejournal page<\/a> does an amusing job of showing how the comic racks might look if there was at least a degree of equality at work.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/the-gay-artists-archive\/\">The gay artists archive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s nothing new about the observation that American superhero comics are often stupidly sexist. The tendency to depict women in superhero comics as little more than super-powered fetish figures increased considerably during the 1990s, so much so that at one time The Comics Journal was making a regular note each issue of recent covers showing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/05\/10\/super-objects\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Super-objects!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,9,5],"tags":[6247],"class_list":["post-467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-comics","category-gay","tag-the-comics-journal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-7x","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}