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greatkunglao:

Lois Lane, Clark Kent, Bruce Wayne and Selina Kyle on a double date in upcoming Batman #37!

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Clark is not dressed in any way to suggest he’s going to the same place as everyone else. Amaizng.

That’s part of his charm. Also, I may need to do a separate post in celebration of Clay Mann’s Lois Lane because she is a fucking revelation.

I want to love this picture but I hate that Lois is in one of those unrealistic, back breaking poses.

I’m sorry but I disagree with this so intensely that it needs to be addressed. I don’t agree that that art is a “back breaking pose.” At all. That looks like a dress that I would wear out if I was going out with my husband and it looks like how a 30 something Woman might stand when she was feeling herself. Context is important here. I see why you would say this but I just do not agree.

Lois Lane is not an inherently sexualized female character. In fact, it’s often the opposite. Misogyny often dictates that she’s actually de-sexualized because culture generally doesn’t like to allow business women/serious career women to also be sexy. Too often she’s stripped of her sexuality by men and male artists who can’t conceive of a woman like that turning Superman on. There is a shit ton of misogyny surrounding Lois distinctly because she’s not a male gaze fantasy. Men like to position her as the dowdy woman in a suit next to the goddess that is Wonder Woman in a bathing suit. It’s actually really disgusting.

So, tbh? I think it’s refreshing as FUCK that an artist and a writer is letting her be the young, sexy woman she is for once. Because it’s actually a pretty big problem that so many men try to paint her as “not hot.” And it’s gotten even worse now that she’s a mother. Because no one can conceive of a woman who complex in all these ways and serious and a mom and also sexual.

It’s the same reason why the bathtub scene in Batman v Superman was actually important and why the pearl clutching reaction to it by concerned fake ass” feminists” was frankly vile.. It’s actually vital that a woman like her gets the chance to be sexy sometimes and challenge the idea that career women are frigid. It’s turning the situation on it’s head bc there is nothing male gaze about her and her sexuality is on her terms.

I love the art. A lot. I think it’s the best art Lois had had in years. Clay Mann draws her like he knows she’s desirable and complex and smart all at once and not all artists do that. You can’t apply the same standards you would apply to Catwoman or even Wonder Woman to Lois because men sexualize Diana and Selina constantly whereas they strip Lois of her sexual power. It’s the same misogyny designed to control women but applied differently so the rules are different. You can’t treat sexy art of Lois the same way. Not without that context. Sexy isn’t always exploiting anymore than female nudity is always exploiting women. (see: Batman v Superman.). It’s all about context and who the woman is. And frankly all I see here is confidence.

Finally, I think it’s refreshing that Selina Kyle, a character constantly sexualized by men, is portrayed as more shy here while Lois is more confident. It shows that both women are more then they seem. Selina is in less conservative attire but she’s nervous and it shows. Lois is dressed a little more classically but she has nothing to hide. There is nothing exploitative about this art. It’s art that’s actually worthy of this character for once from an artist who recognizes that Lois is worthy of being desired and loved as opposed to cast off. But I think (?) part of the issue here is that we are so used to applying these rules to women who are hyper sexualized (a huge issue in comics media) that it’s hard to remember that the rules are different when it’s a woman like Lois who is actually impacted by misogyny in a different way. Does that make sense?