Catwoman – an amorphous superhero?

“What’s wrong is when the person being sexualized is no longer being treated as a ‘person’ but as a collection of parts – in the case of Catwoman as a bust and a butt.” Even the male author of the post on Badass Digest find this portrayal of Catwoman “too much,” and calls it an “embarrassment.” He adds: “What they ended up with is a woman contorted in a position that is physically impossible for humans with bones, and a cover that must outrage any decent human being.” I am not a comic book reader, but it does outrage me.

Apparently this portrayal of Catwoman attracted a lot of attention and ridicule. Comics&Cola assembled a few of them, here is two:

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