Complaining about her being exposition only (which is not completely accurate, since she's obviously scheming something and will probably be a threat or something akin down the line but okay) is fair enough. But when you target the only female character for being "eye candy" it leaves a bad taste in my mouth, especially given that the art doesn't use her in a very exploitative sexy way (no more than your average comics, that is). It's the sort of criticism you see again and again that pretends to use feminist skew to actually be against female characters which pisses me off. Particularly blatant here when it's THE all male characters title.
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Date: 2013-07-04 10:43 am (UTC)