It's still porn...

Okay, so... where to begin?

If you went to CBR's homepage at anytime today until around five minutes ago, you would have noticed a very ironic thing hanging in the background - a giant ad for Next Crisis, or whatever the hell it's called. If you don't know what I'm talking about, it's this website that does live-action videos of admittedly attractive women in skimpy superhero outfits getting tied-up and tortured by supervillains - it's essentially superhero S&M porn. There's no nudity (from what I've heard; you have to pay to watch and this guy doesn't pay for what he can get for free. Ohhhhh, yeah!), and I guess George Perez designed some of the costumes.

However... it's still porn. That's all it is. And porn that's very insulting to women (so at least it's a lot like the comics that inspired it...) I read an article in Wizard a couple of years ago, back when this thing was taking off, and they mentioned that the female heroes never win; because the men don't want to see that.

What makes this so ironic is that not too long ago you had Tony Harris shoot his idiot mouth off about female cosplayers, saying some very misogynistic things. this was followed up by a lot of bloggers pointing out how much of an idiot he was and how his sentiments are not representative of all the fans or creators of the medium. A lot of these posts were on CBR. So what does CBR do? They let a sexist porn site dominate their homepage with the main background ad. Classy.

Edit: So I guess it's called Next GLOBAL Crisis, and the ad is still up, depending on what you click on. Have a look, it's just bunch of shots of the girls in provocative poses and costumes. Yeah, totally not offensive to women. And they wonder why women say they feel like comics are a boys boys' club...