More geek sexism

There is a nice takedown at tthis link:

Comic book fans really really want to believe that their favorite genre/medium is very inclusive, progressive and cutting edge. But the fact is that the genre itself–the superhero comic book–makes progressiveness impossible. The genre exists to portray men as hyper-masculinized, women as hyper-sexualized objects, evil as too smart and too corporate for the common good, and the real justice system as too corrupt and too weak to deal with these criminals, requiring ruthless extreme vigilantes who act swiftly, decisively, and uncompromisingly.

I remember punk rock fans I knew in the 1980s had about the same set of attitudes, coupled with the same vile exploitation of women.

In both cases, it comes from the same kinds of delusions borne of being small, weak, ineffectual men with narcissistic delusions.