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1 Quite Judgemental
2 Balanced it out
3 Sometimes...bad is bad
4 Restoring images
5 Jargon

[edit] Quite Judgemental

If one reads the "Bad Girls and Good Girls" Section, it does not seem to me to stick to the ideal that Wikipedia has of being neutral. I can't quite explain it, but it seems to me the author was wishing to express a very feminist point of view. Dessydes

[edit] Balanced it out

I went over the article, toneing down the bias where i could. I also updated with the current revitalization of the genre. I read over it and i think we can now take down the "questionable neutrality" warning.

Lagozzino

[edit] Sometimes...bad is bad

A bit more on the origins of this term would be illuminating. Who, for instance, coined the phrase "bad girl art" and how was it used in its earliest appearances? It's not insignificant that the term it is probably based on, "good girl art", originally meant "girl art" that was "good" and only later came to suggest something different. The ironic secondary meaning that this gives to "bad girl art" is worth pointing out, especially if anyone can show that this double-entendre was intentiional all along. I recall that there was quite a bit of commentary during the style's heyday, and much of it was disapproving. It would not at all surpise me to learn that the term has a "feminist" origin.

I very much agree with the above comments. The thing that really gets me is, who are these feminist types really? There are women who are fans of WitchBlade and Lara Croft who admire what these characters achieve. Anyway, anybody who worships or condemns these characters should get a life. Art should be admired in it's own time and place. Dessydes

[edit] Restoring images

I have reverted the mass removal of images from the page. All of these images illustrate the characters they depict, and as such fall within the fair use purposes for which they were uploaded. Smerdis of Tlön 22:30, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Do they? The fair use rationale given on each image says:

It is believed that the use of low-resolution images of covers of individual issues of comic books

to illustrate:

the issue of the comic book in question;
the periodical comic book series of which this issue is a part; or
the copyrighted comic book character(s) or group(s) on the cover of the issue in question;

where no free alternative exists or can be created...

It doesn't seem to me that this usage would fall into any of that. It's solely discussing the TYPE of comic it is, not the exact one, and so wouldn't fall into that fair use rationale. I suppose one could argue that there is a fair use rationale for using it here, but they're not on the image's pages. --Rory096 20:44, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

I see you put another fair use rationale on there, thanks. I do still think that free versions could be created, though; it won't actually show a character people may be familiar with, but it can still show the concept. --Rory096 20:45, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

No, a free image would just be a piece of fan art. This is about a trend and a visual style in published comics, from a particular period of their history. I really don't think there's any substitute for using the publishers' images of the characters in question. Smerdis of Tlön 21:41, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Jargon

The article uses "T&A" without explaining what it means. Is it meant to mean "tits 'n' ass"? Is this a comic industry term? Some explanation would be useful, rather than just throwing "T&A" randomly into the article.

What about Taarna?