




There's also a scene with Tenzin and his children, but I didn't really think that was worth capping.
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FTFYiorelsan wrote:Is it me or this whole show was a GiD-o-rama. I mean... it was like almost every episode someone got captured, or they got knocked out by someone lol.
agreed, I think most people here feel the same way too, though I think part of the reason why it's only guys like that is because of the people that are pretty anti-DID minded, whereas no one fusses like that when it's a GID instead. it's kind of silly though since they already got tied, though in this show guys seemed to get it a lot more, or the girl was with guys like that, making it a CID, (I personally like CIDs myself, so no complaint there for me) guessing that probably makes it better for the people that would complain about a girl being DID'ddisguiseartist1 wrote:I don't mind that guys get bound but it was a bit frustrating the only time someone gets gagged, it's dudes. I would have liked to see Korra gagged when she was put in the back of the van. And of course I was hoping Lin would be bound and gagged too after getting captured by Amon.
I would agree, not so much that modern writers are worried about fetishes and being accused of sexual content, but that the typical "female heroine gets bound and gagged" scenario is considered passe' and not empowering to women and girls. You can see a marked drop of in that old cliche since the 80s (compare how many scenes characters like Black Canary had before and after the epoch). Adam Warren's Empowered plays the stereotype for laughs. In that comic he makes the point that when male heroes get bound they rarely get gagged, where it is more common for female ones, and are more often left to a more helpless damsel in distress role. I don't think it is a worry about bondage, just a current sensitivity to de-empowering female heroes.disguiseartist1 wrote:Well I certainly don't think they care about what the bondage crowd thinks, but I would not be surprised at all if the writers were aware of some of the negative connotations some people tend to have for heroines in bondage. Like I have to imagine they'd at least be conscious of some of the fetish fuel accusations that might come up should they writer a lengthy scene of Korra bound and gagged and struggling, or whatnot.
At the very least I know they made a very frank joke about bondage in an episode of Adventure Time, which is another show aimed at kids.