What if male superheroes

Marvel art by Minkyu Jung. There still aren't as many female superheroes as there are male ones, but there are writers and artists trying to change that so that the world of superheroes is more balanced. Male superheroes have outfits that are made really tough like armour, but many female superheroes still have outfits that look more like bathing suits.

You probably know the amazing Wonder Woman, with her invisible plane and lasso of truth. Marvel, also known as Kamala Khan, was just your everyday teen in Jersey City until one day she was transformed by mysterious Terrigen Mists. She can enlarge her hands into giant fists for a punch or make her foot massive for a kick. Marvel can also adjust her height and stature, shrink to the size of an action figure or grow as tall as a building. Those abilities, along with rapid healing, make her a really impressive hero.

Marvel has been a member of the Avengers and serves as leader of the teen supergroup the Champions. Marvel art by Adrian Alphona. Wave, whose identity is Pearl Pangan, grew up on the beaches of Cebu in the Philippines.

After being exposed to unknown energies while in the water, Pearl gained powers to control and manipulate water. Female superheros are presented in skimpy clothing with skin exposed in battle as objects for the sexual gratification of male viewers. Captain Marvel was covered up head to toe. Cat is a clinical sexologist, relationship psychotherapist, certified sex therapist, art therapist, transpersonal counsellor, sex and relationship educator and columnist and award winning, internationally published erotic photographer.

View all posts by Cat O Dowd. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email. So there are revealing male costumes and occasional male butt shots. But that's not what we're talking about here. The purpose of this list is to show you what deliberate male superhero sexiness actually looks like.

The Marvel movies certainly include more lingering shots of men's bodies than the comics do, but the real flipping the script moment happens when Jane Foster comes face-to-chest with the hero Thor. Time and again in movies, we've seen men go gaga over a woman's body just look at Iron Man 2 , but here the roles are reversed. Jane Foster is a brilliant scientist, but she's rendered positively moronic at the sight of those mighty abs. Thor has shown off quite a bit of skin during his MCU run, but that in that moment, the movie truly invites the female gaze.

There is actually a long and storied history of gaze-attracting chests in Marvel superhero movies. The most recent set of Captain America movies may have been a bit cheeky with the steam pouring off of Steve Rogers' newly buff chest, but the film Captain America 2: Death Too Soon already gave us Steve Rogers' strategically ripped shirt. This is a great example of how objectifying a superhero of any gender can sometimes be just plain weird.

Batman Forever gave us a batsuit with nipples, and Nicole Kidman was ready to appreciate those nipples. When she has a moment alone with Batman, she purrs about bad boys in rubber and rubs her hands all over his chest while attempting to seduce him. It's supposed to be sexy, I guess. And when Batman later comes to her bedroom to determine whether she is truly in love with Bruce Wayne or Batman, she lists off the physical attributes she finds attractive—those lips, those eyes.

Okay, so the parts of him you can see in that costume. Got it. The movie works so hard to have Meridian objectify Batman physically—forget his ingenuity, his fighting skills, his bravery—that it completely misses its mark.

Ah, the Marvel Swimsuit Issues , where superheroes would abandon their cares and worries and costumes and enjoy a little fun in the sun.