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Little girls school the comics industry with amazing cosplay

If there’s one overwhelming trend in comics, it’s the impossible anatomical shapes that artists use to display women, and the even more unlikely costume design that goes with them.

That’s partly what makes Little Girls Are Better At Designing Superheroes Than You such a brilliant one-two-three punch of a Tumblr and meme.

It’s not only combatting the myth that girls don’t read or care about comics, but it’s showing that girls, too, can play the male superheroes that so often overshadow their female counterparts. And it’s also proving just how easy it is to upend the sexist conventions that keep the women of comics in scantily clad, unrealistic uniforms for the purpose of sexually objectifying them.

Combine all this social commentary with a bunch of adorable little girls, throw in a mix of amazing fanart to rival the Hawkeye Initiative, and you have the recipe for a stellar takedown of gender issues in comics.

“This is a little mini art project I did over spring break,” the Tumblr’s creator, Alexandra Law, wrote last week. “Basically I take pictures of girls wearing superhero costumes and draw them as actual characters.”

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