{"id":13059,"date":"2013-01-31T11:16:09","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T11:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.badreputation.org.uk\/?p=13059"},"modified":"2013-02-01T00:32:20","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T00:32:20","slug":"guest-post-young-avengers-1-sex-and-the-female-gaze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/badreputation.org.uk\/2013\/01\/31\/guest-post-young-avengers-1-sex-and-the-female-gaze\/","title":{"rendered":"[Guest
Post] Young Avengers #1: Sex and the Female Gaze"},"content":{"rendered":"
<ul>
  \n
  <li>
    <em
      ><strong
        >Alyson Macdonald<\/strong>, who blogs for <a
        href=\"http:\/\/brightgreenscotland.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong
          >Bright Green<\/strong><\/a>, sent us this post. Do you have a guest
          post brewing in your brain? You know the drill: email us on <a
          href=\"mailto:badrepeditors@gmail.com\">badrepeditors@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
          <p>
            Last week&#8217;s long-awaited, big-release comic was Kieron Gillen
            and Jamie McKelvie&#8217;s
            <strong
              >Young Avengers #1<\/strong>, a classic coming-of-age story about
              a group of 18-year-olds who just happen to be superheroes.<\/p>\n
              <p>
                While many mainstream comics are still producing the kind of
                material that gets sent up on <a
                href=\"http:\/\/eschergirls.tumblr.com\/\"
                target=\"_blank\">Escher Girls<\/a> and <a
                href=\"http:\/\/thehawkeyeinitiative.com\/\"
                target=\"_blank\">The Hawkeye Initiative<\/a>, Gillen and
                McKelvie actively reject the kind of objectification that gives
                the genre such a bad reputation amongst feminists. In contrast
                to the stereotypical tits-and-ass fare, the opening sequence of
                <strong
                  >Young Avengers<\/strong> provides the reader with a
                  three-page essay on the (straight\/bi) female gaze. In a
                  medium that overwhelmingly caters for straight male desires,
                  this is a rare demonstration of how to do a sexy scene with
                  decent gender politics.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:
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                  <p>
                    On page one, Kate Bishop wakes up in an unfamiliar bed,
                    having just hooked up with a man whose name she can&#8217;t
                    quite remember. At this point anyone who&#8217;s familiar
                    with comics, or popular culture in general, would expect to
                    see some slut-shaming, or at least some titillating
                    semi-nudity, but we get neither. Kate is dressed in a
                    t-shirt which comes down to her mid-thigh, and it&#8217;s
                    clear that she has no regrets, thinking:
                    <em
                      >For a second, some part of me thinks, \u201cI should be
                      ashamed.\u201d I think that part of me is really stupid.
                      <\/em><\/p>\n
                      <p>
                        In the fourth panel we even see Kate smiling as she
                        thinks back to the earlier part of her evening, and
                        it&#8217;s the smile of someone who has just got laid
                        and is pretty damned pleased with herself.<br \ />\nThe
                        second page introduces us to Noh-Varr, whose bed Kate
                        has woken up in, and this is where we see another
                        convention subverted, because he&#8217;s the one in
                        nothing but his underwear. In an interview with <a
                        href=\"http:\/\/www.comicsalliance.com\/2013\/01\/23\/young-avengers-interview-kieron-gillen-jamie-mckelvie\/#ixzz2IodBaUVn\"
                        target=\"_blank\">Comics Alliance<\/a>, artist Jamie
                        McKelvie explains the idea behind this scene:<\/p>\n
                      </p>
                      <blockquote>
                        <p>
                          We&#8217;ve long had a problem in comics where the
                          women are &#8220;sexy&#8221; (in a sexist fashion) and
                          the men aren&#8217;t. Time to redress the balance. And
                          there&#8217;s a big difference between sexist and
                          sexy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:
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                        </p>
                        <p>
                          Although male superheroes are usually drawn with
                          extremely muscular physiques, it&#8217;s not normally
                          sexualised in this way \u2013 the reader is supposed
                          to want to
                          <em
                            >be<\/em> them, not have sex with them. This is a
                            rare acknowledgement that people who fancy men read
                            superhero comics too.<\/p>\n
                            <p>
                              But rather than providing equality of
                              objectification, the aim here is to have a sexy
                              scene which enhances the story and doesn&#8217;t
                              devalue either of the characters. If you&#8217;re
                              enjoying the view of Noh-Varr in his underwear,
                              it&#8217;s just a bonus, not the entire point of
                              the sequence; if you&#8217;re not into it, his
                              lack of clothes is incidental. As Gillen puts it
                              in <a
                              href=\"http:\/\/kierongillen.tumblr.com\/post\/40045596084\/meet-the-team-marvel-boy\"
                              target=\"_blank\">an introduction to the character
                              of Noh-Varr<\/a> on his Tumblr:<\/p>\n
                            </p>
                            <blockquote>
                              <p>
                                &#8230;characters being sexy is cool but
                                objectification in the process is bullshit. An
                                inability to see the difference is a fundamental
                                weakness. My wife\u2019s in the next room
                                watching Lord of the Rings, and I guarantee
                                she\u2019s thinking sexy thoughts about Aragorn.
                                But that works without anything which
                                annihilates him as a character,
                                y\u2019know?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
                              </p>
                              <p>
                                The reader is supposed to see this scene through
                                Kate&#8217;s eyes, and as she watches Noh-Varr
                                dancing around in his pants, it acknowledges the
                                existence of the female gaze, both through
                                Kate&#8217;s interest in watching him, and the
                                <a
                                href=\"http:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/Fanservice\"
                                target=\"_blank\">fanservice<\/a> of the
                                artwork.<\/p>\n
                              </p>
                              <p>
                                Noh-Varr has a masculine appearance, but \u2013
                                perhaps because he&#8217;s an alien from another
                                dimension \u2013 he doesn&#8217;t appear to be
                                burdened with ideas of conventional masculinity,
                                as we can see from his music choices. The
                                comic&#8217;s title page states that the record
                                he puts on is &#8216;Be My Baby&#8217; by the
                                Ronettes (incidentally, this is the track played
                                over the opening titles of the film
                                <strong
                                  >Dirty Dancing<\/strong>, which is also about
                                  <a
                                  href=\"http:\/\/www.badreputation.org.uk\/2013\/01\/09\/guest-post-found-feminism-rewatching-dirty-dancing\/\">female
                                  sexual awakening<\/a>), and he talks about his
                                  enthusiasm for \u201cclose harmony girl
                                  groups\u201d in a way that a heterosexual
                                  Earth man probably wouldn&#8217;t, because
                                  he&#8217;d be afraid of seeming effeminate.
                                  The play on gender roles is, of course,
                                  entirely deliberate, as one of the major
                                  influences in this version of the character is
                                  David Bowie during his androgynous,
                                  bisexual-identifying period in the early
                                  1970s.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:
                                  center;\"><a
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                                  <p>
                                    As Kate watches Noh-Varr, the scene is
                                    interrupted by a Skrull attack (Skrulls are
                                    a species of warrior aliens that
                                    occasionally pop up in the Marvel Universe
                                    to attack either Earth or Noh-Varr&#8217;s
                                    species of warrior aliens). If this was a
                                    horror movie, this would be the moment where
                                    Kate&#8217;s decision to go back to
                                    Noh-Varr&#8217;s place for sexytimes gets
                                    her killed in a disgustingly graphic way,
                                    but rather than being punished for her
                                    naughty behaviour, Kate is rewarded with
                                    another adventure, when she pilots the space
                                    ship.<\/p>\n
                                  </p>
                                  <p>
                                    As well as understanding what many female
                                    fans want to see, Gillen also accepts that
                                    sometimes our appreciation goes beyond
                                    what&#8217;s on the page:<\/p>\n
                                  </p>
                                  <blockquote>
                                    <p>
                                      Ever since our work on <a
                                      href=\"http:\/\/www.phonogramcomic.com\/\"
                                      target=\"_blank\"><strong
                                        >Phonogram<\/strong><\/a>, Jamie have
                                        [sic] strove to make our comics \u2013
                                        for want of a better phrase \u2013 <a
                                        href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Slash_fiction\"
                                        target=\"_blank\">slash-fic<\/a>-able.
                                        If you\u2019re working in certain heroic
                                        fantasy genres, that\u2019s part of the
                                        emotional churn.<\/p>\n
                                        <p>
                                          (taken from Gillen&#8217;s <a
                                          href=\"http:\/\/kierongillen.tumblr.com\/post\/40045596084\/meet-the-team-marvel-boy\"
                                          target=\"_blank\">tumblr post on
                                          Noh-Varr<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
                                        </p>
                                        <p>
                                          Recent comic book adaptation movies
                                          like
                                          <strong
                                            >Avengers Assemble<\/strong> and
                                            <strong
                                              >X-Men:First Class<\/strong> have
                                              been gleefully adopted by
                                              fanfiction writers, who find that
                                              the gender imbalances and close
                                              friendships between male
                                              characters give them plenty of
                                              material to work with. While slash
                                              has sometimes been treated as
                                              fandom&#8217;s dirty secret,
                                              Gillen and McKelvie are obviously
                                              quite comfortable with it. The
                                              title page even provides a nod to
                                              fangirl culture by adopting their
                                              language: editors Jake Thomas and
                                              Lauren Sankovitch are credited
                                              with \u201cLOLs\u201d and
                                              \u201cfeels\u201d respectively
                                              \u2013 that&#8217;s
                                              \u201chumour\u201d and
                                              \u201cemotions\u201d to anyone who
                                              isn&#8217;t up-to-date on their
                                              internet memes.<\/p>\n
                                              <p>
                                                <strong
                                                  >Young Avengers<\/strong>
                                                  clearly demonstrates something
                                                  which I&#8217;ve long
                                                  suspected to be true: it
                                                  really is possible for male
                                                  writers to \u201cget\u201d
                                                  female fans. Although there
                                                  are female comics creators
                                                  producing work that
                                                  doesn&#8217;t make women
                                                  cringe \u2013 even with big
                                                  publishers like Marvel and DC
                                                  \u2013 it doesn&#8217;t mean
                                                  that their male colleagues
                                                  should have a free pass to be
                                                  obnoxiously sexist. We should
                                                  be holding more men to the
                                                  pro-feminist standard that
                                                  Gillen and McKelvie have set,
                                                  not just in comics, but in all
                                                  forms of pop culture.<\/p>\n
                                                  <ul>
                                                    \n
                                                    <ul>
                                                      \n
                                                      <li>
                                                        <em
                                                          >At night
                                                          <strong
                                                            >Alyson
                                                            Macdonald<\/strong>
                                                            dons a cape and
                                                            tights to fight
                                                            sexism and the Tory
                                                            government on the
                                                            internet. She mostly
                                                            blogs at <a
                                                            href=\"http:\/\/brightgreenscotland.org\/\"
                                                            target=\"_blank\"><strong
                                                              >Bright
                                                              Green<\/strong><\/a>
                                                              and tweets as <a
                                                              href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/textuallimits\"
                                                              target=\"_blank\"><strong
                                                                >@textuallimits<\/strong><\/a>.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n
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                                                                                      <p>
                                                                                        Guest
                                                                                        blogger
                                                                                        Alyson
                                                                                        Macdonald
                                                                                        on
                                                                                        why
                                                                                        Gillen
                                                                                        and
                                                                                        McKelvie&#8217;s
                                                                                        Young
                                                                                        Avengers
                                                                                        is
                                                                                        your
                                                                                        new
                                                                                        superhero
                                                                                        comic
                                                                                        to
                                                                                        watch.
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