Why are females in comics seen as sex symbols?

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Superman and Batman are sex symbols to straight women.

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@arranvid said:

Superman and Batman are sex symbols to straight women.

what about men

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@arranvid said:

Superman and Batman are sex symbols to straight women.

what about men

Nobody talks about that

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Same reason they’re sex symbols in real life

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#205  Edited By dshipp17

It's all from the perspective of the commenter. While the heroine is sexy, she can still be viewed from other angles, as well, such as super strength. And this is where DC started to go from overboard to way too far with Wonder Woman, starting the the battle skirt; Messner-Loebs had brought back wonder Woman as intended from her creators, and away from that something else, where Wonder Woman has always been made into a chalkboard for a writer to express their social agendas on instead of having writers just write Wonder Woman for the sake of writing Wonder Woman which is then linked to why she attracted certain fans (e.g. you should be writing to and entertaining that fanbase); she was meant for certain fans, where DC should have just invented new female characters for trying to make a social point; this poster was from that DC mindset back then, at the start of the battle skirt, that then finally wrecked Wonder Woman. I hope the new owners or operators of DC would finally just take Wonder Woman back to what was intended from the 1940s and finally build her as her own character, as what's always been done with Batman and Superman and pretty much every other DC character.

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Probably because the vast majority of comic book readers are men