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Date: 2011-10-05 06:01 pm (UTC)For starters, she's completely right about the new characters. They're porn queens masquerading as superheroes. But I think she's completely wrong about what she thinks they used to be all about. Her example of what Starfire used to be like back in the day is unfortunately, little more than a reflection of what male fantasy was at the time: American boys dreamed of women who were "uninhibited" sexually, which they dressed up as being free of Puritan Constraints placed on them by a rigid patriarchy. Usually so long as said women wanted to do what said boys wanted to do. And said women usually came from Other Places, like Sweden or France or in Starfire's case, another planet.
So really, DC is completely surprised since they're just doing business as usual. They've just updated things to reflect modern society. Just as importantly, the new mores violate the mores that Laura Hudson grew up with, reading DC comics.
So really, it's all about perspective.