Welcome, TheDu! Great first post!

I'm still curious to see an expanded version of the sexualism-in-comics discussion, that TheDu started up. How do you guys feel about it?

For reference, that conversation starts at around 2:05:30 in the NTSC download.

The mistake in all this discussion is assuming that what works for men (in regards to viewing women as sexy) also applies to women (in viewing men as sexy). Sexiness to a man is primarily about looks (youth, slimness, symmetry, health, fitness). Men don't care as much about the woman's social status, income, job, brain, etc. Women, on the other hand, have physical appearance as only one of many attributes. Consider it on a points-system where different attributes are weighted. Let's say anything over 100 points is deemed 'sexy'. For men, almost all the points come from the woman's looks: 20 points for long legs, 20 points for large eyes & lips, 20 points for hair, 20 points for flawless skin, 20 points for perky breasts, etc. For women, it may only be 30% weighted to men's looks, the rest coming from social status, wit, intelligence, leadership, humour, extroversion/confidence, positive outlook, etc. That's why withered old men can still get hot chicks because they make up the points in other areas. It doesn't work the other way around.

So equating sexualization of characters based solely on poses or revealing costumes is not a fair comparison.

Whilst there is a problem with sexism in the comics media, they picked quite possibly the worst example of it with that Avengers art.

Exactly.  There are some shots of MAGNETO....holocaust survivor MAGNETO, and he has lats like Bruce Lee.  SO that's why I don't jump onto the whole "Comics are sexist!" bandwagon because its about absurd sexual images for both genders equally, in my opinion.

Great episode. In this conversation I see a lot of angry opinion, but none from women.