>>111348675>It's meant to be more of a child punishment, since it shouldn't inflict real damage. But the amount of times it's been done to grown women in comics is unnerving.On the surface it certainly appears to be sexist against women, but I think in a way it's a sign of female privilege (for lack of a better term. I'm so sorry I had to use it). By which I mean, no one wants to see a women subjected to the same kind of genuinly harsh punishment that male characters/villains were often subject to, so they are instead subjected to what amounts to momentary humiliation.
Of course, that's not going into the sexual aspect of it. Whole different can of worms.
