Whether we like it or not comics as an overall in comic history have been sexist. But as time has passed comics have been becoming alot less sexist. Women used to be portayed as the average housewife doing all the right things. When women have a powerful role in a comic book they are always portayed as a sex symbol. This is inherently sexist and offensive to alot of women. Some people may say comics are sexist because of the lack of female heroes. But in reality most of the comic book fans are male so it really takes the theory away. If most comic book fans are male than it gives the comic book writers and inscentive and reason to make most of the charecters male. We need to realize this is a business people are looking to make money in. Feelings are going to get hurt this is a busniess and people need to realize that.
Why blame comics for societal failure? Society blamed comics for the societal failures because it was a fairly new industry, and as things seemed to go “wrong” they figured it must be comic books. When a child grew up during the war, his father was probably killing people and the military and his mother was probably making things in factories to help kill the opposition. The only things kids had to “babysit” them was comic books, and they read many different kinds. So when kids starting acting differently in this new generation the figured it must be the comic books. Society didn’t want to believe it may have been the internal and external scars war causes on the soldiers and their families. Also the fact that young unattended children are reading these comics may not be able to differentiate between fantasy and reality. When society fails it always needs a scapegoat then it was comic books next it was rock and roll. Society naturally resist change.
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