Monday, December 22, 2008

F You Creators of Rapeman...



This is so sad for me on several levels. Of course sexual assault is never funny, and women never "deserve it" and particularly not for "wronging men". But also because I love Comic Books, and I argue that they have come along way from objectifying women so far even to present strong female heroes which is particularly important while competing against patronizing trash like Twilight. Anyway, I saw this on Feministing, and thought I would be at loss for words, but luckily enough.

2 comments:

Tim said...

if you look into this, it was a bit of a satire and it ended about 15 years ago. also, it was written by a woman.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rapeman

i only know this much because of the band who took their name from the comic.

Kari said...

See the article I read attributed it to a Japanese comic book. Though this may have been created by a women, I don't think the comic book is, but I shall look into it.