Let’s look at Grayson #13
Any excuse to get Dick naked, right? Yeah, nothing new.
“Privacy and integrity.” Things Dick doesn’t have, we know.
So what vibe did you guys just get from this panel? To me, it looks like this woman just touched Dick inappropriately, causing him to react. In the next panel, she has a smitten look on her face and now wants to be on a first name basis with him. Lovely. Reminds me of this guy who stalked me on my college campus 3 years ago.
Helena witnessed the whole thing and only says. “Doctor Netz, your… thoroughness is appreciated.” Nice implication here, right? Doesn’t it give you the vibe that this woman was pushing beyond her professional boundaries in order to invade Dick’s personal space? I imagine she was very thorough considering this is the same woman who sexually harassed Dick previously and keeps making creepy comments about his body, like that one time she flat out told Dick she was going to write gay smut fanfictions about him in Grayson #4.
“Clinging to young herr Grayson’s beautifully sculpted body.” - Grayson #7
Uh, yeah, have we gotten into the age gap here yet? Because her emphasizing that Dick is “young” is not making this any better to me.
“the muscle-strength locked into Agent 37′s lovely arms.” - Grayson #10
Every single time I’ve seen this woman talk to or about Dick, she’s obsessing over his body. She does this in front of Helena, the director of Spyral, multiple times. And yet Helena chooses this woman to do a full body search on Dick where he’s not only naked but can’t exactly say ‘no’ due to the power imbalance nature of the situation. Not that the Grayson writers would ever write Dick saying ‘no’ anyway, though, right? Because this is all so sex positive. It also looks like this woman is recording the entire session on her tablet, which suggests to me that she now has personal footage of Dick’s naked body. Somehow I doubt that would stay private and only get used professionally by her, but what do you guys think?
Have I mentioned that this is the cover?
Dick is not only in bondage but what looks like shibari (kink bondage) with his ass in the air and an expression that doesn’t reflect being in danger and needing to get out of the situation (kind of reminds me of tons of female objectification covers).
This. Is. Not. Sex Positivity.
Seeley and King do not know the difference between sex positivity and sexualization or sexual harassment.
Sex positivity is when a person promotes themselves as sexy and is happy with their own feelings about sex.
Here’s an example of sex positivity– Pre-52 Kory.
Is that the vibe any of you have been getting from this comic series? Because I sure the hell haven’t.
Sexualizing is when other characters dictate that person’s sexiness or how they should feel about sex.
This comic is fucking gross and I hate it. NONE OF THESE MOMENTS are on Dick’s terms. This “sex positivity” comes entirely from OTHER characters deciding that Dick is sexy to the point where he is flat out being sexually harassed multiple times without the story ever treating it as sexual harassment. His ass cheeks get named and he repeatedly gets referred to by his ass cheeks rather than his own name. Sex positivity? More like ‘sexual harassment positivity.’ In Grayson #13, it flat out looks like that creepy old woman touched Dick on his private parts and yet it’s all just funny and cute, right? Sure, whatever.