>>8211914The catch is, comics cater to a group of shut in nerds who are on their computers alone talking about superheroes on a friday night. That's not gender specific.
The argument you're making is that comics should be more accessible to all interests and have entry points into the hobby for every level, which they sort of do. The problem is, what sells, what's popular, is something a male audience gravitates towards more heavily than a female audience. That's the stuff that makes it to the center shelf at the front of the store.
The movie analogy is not a great one. I don't like excessive violence or cheap jump scares, so I don't watch horror movies. Does that mean all horror movies should try to produce content that caters to me? They can, but I'm not really the intended audience market to begin with, and there are other movie genres I can check out, so why bother with me? More specific to your point, the modern action movie rarely includes a bikini shot or a bolted-on sex scene as compared to the 80s and 90s action movie, because there HAS been that respect and willingness to compromise.
As a grown ass adult man who un-apologetically reads things like Archie and Calvin and Hobbes, the superhero genre is a specific subset of comics that happens to be the best money maker thanks to, honestly, batman movies, marvel movies, and the big bang theory.
Because it's cool to be a nerd now, the trend is to cater to a wide audience seems obvious. But outside of t-shirts and funko pops, most of the actual consumers buying weekly printed comic books are men, because of disparities in children's markets, not adult markets. Little girls are socialized to consume princess and not superhero media, and so it would be foolish to cater to an audience you know isn't spending money in your corner of the nerd market.
