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I think you're missing the point that in other parts of the world people (kids, adults, men, women) do read comic books. In those other parts of the world, wher
by kiiski 12y ago
I think you're missing the point that in other parts of the world people (kids, adults, men, women) do read comic books. In those other parts of the world, where comic books are read by all sorts of people, they are not so overtly sexualized as those in the USA.
Maybe you're right that non-young-male-Americans are genetically incapable of liking comic books as a medium, but it seems more likely that Americans are no different from Europeans, and would like comics if they just made comics for them.
- xienze 12y ago> but it seems more likely that Americans are no different from Europeans Huh? There's tons of ways in which Americans are culturally different from Europeans. Is it so crazy to think comic book tastes might be one of those differences?
- dragonwriter 12y ago> Maybe you're right that non-young-male-Americans are genetically incapable of liking comic books as a medium It doesn't have to be genetics. It could just be that the opportunity for a cultural development that would favor broader popularity of comic books in the US was missed -- the development of that culture is not independent of things like the currently existing set of other media options, pre-existing cultural perceptions of pictorial media, etc. The cultural popularity and associations of particular art forms are path dependent.