The Beguiling notes, "caused quite a bit of disdain
and laughter in the audience familiar with the source material in indian sex comics,"
since the series isn't erotic. But women tend to come up short in comics
usually short skirted or skimpy topped. As Birkemoe says, "If people don't
think of sex when they think of comics, sadly they do think of sexism the
ridiculous super-heroine costumes, fighting crime in high-heels and spilling
out. More often than not, these criticisms are sadly justified easily in indian sex comics.
And sex in superhero books often seems to involve dehumanization of women.
There is a website listing the victims of "Women in Refrigerator
Syndrome" all the females in male superhero books who've been brutalized
or killed as a plot device.
So there's this great indian sex comics limited series
for everyone. It dressed up with a plot about super heroes saving world but
includes mixed media and stories-within- indian sex comics stories, takes on
Cold War politics, metaphysics, even nature of time itself and its ticking
along, until sex comes into the picture. There is something just too crude and
reductive, as nastily fascist as the world the series is criticizing, about a
woman falling in love with her rapist in indian sex comics.
Maybe that is because Watchmen focus on men. Even the love making scene between
Nite Owl and Silk Specter in the film version, as Peter Birkemoe, owner of
Toronto comic store.
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