Lot of Comics response Week 6

A lot of the comics, which I assume are written by males, seem to portray a man’s sexual fantasy in a lot of how women and sexual encounters are portrayed. A lot of the women (however, not all) seem to have no problem with having sex when in these surreal situations, like the women who lands in an underground cavern of horny midgets. There is no preamble, they just ascend her and start to have sex with her. They fight over her different body parts, like she’s a piece of meat. At one point we can barely make out her face, or even her body because there are so many midgets. This completely ignores the concept of consent, and after they are done, its implied that she has died, and is promptly taken to Heaven by “jesus” and is then married off to “jesus”. She has no moment of regret, not a shred of anger, and barely even acknowledges what happens besides being tired. This kind of plays into this fantasy of women in general being willing and wanting for sex, with pretty much no objection to having sex with any man who pursues them. We as an audience are supposed to just assume that she was okay with what happened. The women portrayed like this seem to mainly exist for the pleasure and convenience of the men in the story. They not only are sex objects, but they don’t mind and often enjoy being treated like this. In Tijuana Bibles, many of the women in the stories are pretty much available for sex for the men in the story when they want it. One women becomes a hooker to earn some money, and is literally, at one point, surrounded by strangers with their penises hanging out of their pants, lining up to have sex with her. In the end, she seems to hold no issue with this, and is perfectly content. The comic seems to make light the fact that she is being used in such a way, and even the punchline at the end is at her expense, and solidifies her status as a sex object. Not only do we watch her go through this as if it’s just a regular occurrence on such an afternoon, but we are to find humor in it. We are to accept and then laugh at her situation as if there’s no problem with it.

If this was meant to blatantly remind us of how many in our culture still view women, that it’s effective. There are men who view women this way, as if they are constantly willing and wanting to have sex at his convenience, and many hide this view, justify it somehow, or make light of it in order to avoid criticism.  If meant to be a criticism of such worldviews, this effectively shoves these misogynistic world views in the face of a culture that wants to avoid talking about such issues.