flannelanimal:

Amanda Waller, a full-figured character (one of the few in comics) in the DC Universe got a unnecessary makeover today in the DC reboot.  Photo courtesy of ComicAlliance.com

All I’m going to say is this:  If you’re a professional comics artist (i.e. someone is paying you money to draw pictures) and you’re not using that as an opportunity to include underrepresented people in comics today, you’re a complete waste of time.  In cases like this, all you’re doing is perpetuating a terrible, unhealthy image of what a woman is.  The saddest part is, it’s totally fixable.  All it would take is a handful of artists to stop being lazy and actually refuse to draw women the way a 12-year-old boy would.  It’s not like the fashion industry, where it would take years for normal-sized women or even plus-sized women to become the norm.  Mainstream comics publishers wonder why people aren’t reading comics anymore.  It’s because they’re full of juvenile storytelling like this.  

I’d like to add that I agree with a lot of you, too, that it’s really about over-sexualizing characters when that has nothing to do with the story.  The weight is one thing, but the root problem is a bunch of artists/editors wanting their own masturbation material over telling a good story.

As a writer I agree that over sexualizing a character is unnecessary. It would take me five seconds to make one of my characters into a sex symbol, but I don’t. You wanna know why? It’s not part of their character. As much as I would love all the girls to have giant boobs and wear all short skirts, most girls aren’t like that.