Boob Windows

Strong female characters that wear no clothes are not strong role models and they perpetuate a horrible example for young men. This statement seems clearly made and logical for anyone who thinks about it for a second, yet in video games, comic books, basic media, women are still portrayed by their appearance first and their personality/skills second. Click onto the new line up and just watch any show. Chuck NBC’s new, admittedly funny, show has a normal looking guy as the main character. His friend is normal and not fantastically attractive.

His sister is modelesque attractive. The secret agent he’s assigned to (a woman) is skinny, attractive, and uses her feminine wiles on him to start with.

It’s not hard to tell that looks come first with female characters and then whatever personality happens to be required gets filled in. Watching a movie you’ll see a wide variety of male shapes and forms. You’ll see two of women. There will either be the skinny, very unrealistically attractive woman. And then there’s the fattie. There’s no middle ground. No ‘real’ looking woman who has maybe arms or a little bit of a stomach. And usually when this character is the main of the movie the entire focus is centered around her weight.

It’s not hard to flip on the news and see models getting skinnier, more anorexic actresses yet flip over to the entertainment network and all there is – is showing who’s wearing what and what looks bad.

It’s image appeal. And it’s killing our society.

Little girls are growing up with serious image issues from what they are bombarded with every day and no one is doing anything about it. There are no normal looking actresses or newscasters. There’s no one telling clothing companies to stop shrinking their sizes. There is just a constantly flow of hot women as the first and only ideal.

And what about our boys? It is not their fault that by the time they’ve hit their teens that they’re hormonal driven on the road to find the hottest girl. Women are trying to appeal to this idea and all that boys are bombarded with is scantily clad women.

Take comic books for example. Power Girl still has, what can only be described as a ‘boob window.’ New female heroes get short skirts to fly in. I don’t know about you, but if I was flying up in the air, I would not be wearing a skirt.

Even when a female character is not drawn in a revealing costume, her breasts are enlarged, her outfit is skin tight. She is gorgeous. She is woman.

And this is just the stuff the kids are reading.

What do we expect of our men when this is what they get as boys?

What do we expect of our women when this is what they get as girls?

What do we expect of anyone when we keep ignoring it and saying ‘well that’s the way it is’?