To celebrate the release of the new Spiderman movie, Marvel Comics released limited edition statues of some of the characters, including this one of Mary-Jane in a thong suggestively washing Spidy's super-underpants. Boring.
Much more interesting, however, is the parody beside it.How does that part of the Spiderman song go? "In the CHILLof night! At the scene of a CRIME! Like a STREAK of light! He arrives just in TIME!!" Well, a streak of somethin', anyway...Looks pretty freaking ridiculous when it's a man, hmmmmm? We get so used to women being represented in highly sexualized images that we (often) don't think anything of it. The quick and dirty litmus test for sexism? If the same messages seem improbable and strange when applied to men, you might just be looking at a social construction of gender that needs to be examined more closely.
(Source: thefword.org.uk)
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