When The Avengers came out last year
there was a great political cartoon calling attention to Scarlett Johansson’s
role in the movie, or more appropriately the role that her posterior played in
the movie. Joss Whedon may be a feminist
99% of the time, but he sure did spend an extraordinary amount of camera time
of the Black Widow’s backside. It’s even
featured prominently on the poster. Artist Kevin Bolk speculated what the poster would look like if the gender roles were
reversed (see below).
Pretty funny, and as a comic reader I
am very familiar with super heroines bending into odd positions with less than
fully covered rear ends. I was not
familiar, however, with the same pose happening with ex-Confederates. Once upon a time Johnny Yuma, Rebel
was advertised in a similar pose.
Perhaps in the late ‘50s / early ’60 rebel ass was advertising gold.
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