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Superhero Body References

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Along with some other examples for comparison.

I did this for anatomy practice, but I feel like this is a good time to point out the relevance of this to the ongoing argument of superheroines and feminism. If you look at the superheroes, most of them resemble the bodybuilder, not the Barbie doll and the Victoria's secret model. They appear muscular and their breasts actually hang pretty naturally for the most part, despite being unusually large.

A lot of these arguments will point out that these body types are extremely difficult to achieve, but don't take into account that superheroes live a very athletic lifestyle and are super-fit. And also, they may be unrealistically sexy (but so are the male heroes) but these "feminist" arguments only focus on the looks and don't take into account that most female superheroes are intelligent, confident, always in control of the situation, physically and mentally strong, and independent.

Feminism should focus on the real issues, not this. Lady heroes are something that we should aspire to be, for the reasons listed above.

I will defend superheroes to the grave.
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Wait those are female body builders? I was thinking that they'd be huge like their male counterparts(depending on the artists, I'd prefer if there was a balance in terms of muscle for males, like somewhere between Part 4 JoJo and the later on really slim JoJo)