Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCT: 7-11 June 2010 (1681-1685)
JackFaerie:
--- Quote from: CEOIII on 10 Jun 2010, 00:01 ---Seriously. How do you not KNOW you have a nice rack? She's pretty much an invalid, spending all her time on the 'net, even if she's not outright pornsurfing, she has to run into some pictures of what people consider "attractive" women, you're telling me Mari never got a look at one of these women, felt kinda inadequate at first, then caught her silouette on the wall, or a side glance of herself in the mirror, and said "Hey..........fuck, I'm HUGE. Where'd those come from?"
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Lol. You're a guy, right? That's REALLY not how women with insecurity issues see themselves.
1st: "Hot women" online look nothing like Marigold, and she would not be easily able to separate out the individual bodyparts from the whole.
2nd: internet/pornstar big boobs look nothing like real big boobs. When Marigold looks at her boobs, she's probably very aware that they aren't preternaturally perky, that they're not symmetrical, that they have stretchmarks, etc etc etc.
3rd: Looking at herself in the mirror, Marigold does think "fuck, I'm HUGE" but not in the way you meant it. She possibly sees her breasts as just part of her overall fatness. (Mari's not actually fat, but we've been told she thinks of herself that way.)
and that's just some of it.
Moxie:
--- Quote from: JackFaerie on 09 Jun 2010, 23:38 ---Well, Jeph's said he finds drawing Dora difficult. I would say that he's drawing her eyes too small, and her jaw/cheeks too round. A rounder face looks good on Faye and Marigold, who have different proportions and longer hair to frame their faces, but on Dora it just looks out of balance and like her lower face is swollen. And a round jaw in combination with the small eyes and short hair makes her look unnecessarily butch.
See?
Although also, man, that haircut is just not the most flattering.
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Dang, wow, you are right about the jaw/cheek area being too round. Slimming it down fits her face, and matches her body much, much more. World of difference, and now that I know what it is about her face that bothers me, I'll see it all the time. Woo...
Akima:
Kudos to Jeph for making a big-boob joke that's actually rather touching, and working in Dora's "up front" pun too. As someone said above, the Marigold-drawing is excellent.
--- Quote from: JackFaerie on 10 Jun 2010, 00:12 ---Lol. You're a guy, right? That's REALLY not how women with insecurity issues see themselves.
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I'm astounded to find myself agreeing with Jack :laugh:, but yeah. And actually we all have insecurity issues.
Neskah:
Yeah, About the boobs, I'm well endowed... and I don't see it as an asset, when you get that big i tend to think of it as cartoonishly disproportionate. I mean yeah, Boobs are sexy... when they're plump and pert. But, there's a thing as too much cleavage and skin, even when you're not trying. It's a drawback. I can see how Marmar would just write it into her general sense of Fatness. Thankfully there are ppl like Dora and Tai around, who can see that in the right clothes mutton can outshine lamb and applaud it. BTW I love Mar.... the nerdy social ineptness and obsession for games, the frumpy curves, even the pigtails, she reminds me of someone =D
stevelore:
Ok, so, maybe its just me, and if that's the case, I'll shut up, but:
FOR CRYING OUT LOUD, JEPH STOP OBSESSING ABOUT BREASTS.
I'm not a prude or a puritan, but I think the strip has crossed the line from depicting liberated people who are (more or less) comfortable talking about their bodies into the territory of objectifying women.
Occasional snarky exchanges between faye and dora is one thing, but look at this:
http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1672
http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1675
http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1678
http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1684
It's like 80% of the time marigold is in the comic, someone (jeph) is making sure we all know that part of her value as a person is based on her breasts.
Here's an idea, Jeph: rent some porn, get the breast-obsession out of your system, and go back to telling an actual story, instead of reinforcing the misogynistic values of the patriarchy (also, ditch the heteronormativity a smidge. and nobody bring up Tai, because that's pure tokenism).
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