Posted on 02/26/2015 6:09:26 PM PST by grundle
Yes, comic book heroines are supposed to have powers that are out of this world, but the illustrations of their bodies could definitely be brought down to Earth.
A creative team working with Bulimia.com, a website dedicated to providing information and support systems to those struggling with eating disorders, decided to transform covers of comic books depicting popular female -- and male -- characters and give our favorite heroes more realistic bodies. Instead of figures with huge breasts, impossibly small waists and disproportioned thighs, they gave characters like DC Comics' Catwoman and Marvel's Black Widow more practical bodies.
The team was inspired by BuzzFeed's edited illustrations of Disney princesses with realistic waistlines.
"We didn't intend this project to be a commentary on whether or not comic books send the wrong message about body image," a representative with Bulimia.com told The Huffington Post in an email Tuesday. "Rather, our hope here is to show the extent to which superheroes' body types (as is the case with their super-human abilities) are fictional. Our hope is that when viewers see these superheroes visualized in such a manner that they can identify with, they may feel better about themselves and realize the futility of any comparison between themselves and the fictional universes of Marvel and DC Comics."
Check out some of the illustrations, below:
More images at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/26/comic-book-women-realistic-bodies_n_6761320.html?utm_hp_ref=women&ir=Women
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There are some people for whom spandex should be illegal. Behold, ‘Exhibit A’.
I remember the original Iron Man looked like a bunch of big stove pipes attached to a boiler. Who knew they had it right the first time.
Freegards
demands more realistic body image:
SJW's are NOT amused:
Didn’t think they had perfected carbon fiber to be that dang strong yet!
Both work good, LOL!
I may want to add a MOON to the Image just for the sake of Authenticity!
Thanks!
Yay for Power Girl!
(Is your s/n related to the super-heavy AI tanks in sci-fi books perchance?)
Could we just leave the originals alone and come up with new, more realistic superheroes? Say we could have ThunderWoman, who’s on the chubby side and when runs the jiggling of her thighs create thunder shock waves that stun her enemies?
How on earth did they keep her breasts from popping out?
MODOK wins the thread. Truly the most unrealistic body type of them all.
Freegards
Finalist: “No Hint of Irony” award.
That's right. When said subject looks in the mirror he thinks, "Eat your heart out, Captain America"
... and as the POMOs say, "... its a good thing, too!"
However, in my defense, I will say that he was originally named: Mental Organism Designed Only for Computing and he renamed himself MODOK after he took over AIM.
Unrealistic body type, check. But I've never been able to resist the un-PC mental image of MODOK that Peter Dinklage evokes, especially with the Tyrion Lannister haircut.
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