Yet despite bloggers raising the issue (or moaning, if that's how you want to term it) women in comics will still be there mostly to be fridged or for cheesecake (of the ouch-her-poor-spine variety) in the same culture that churns out narratives about how men only think with their dicks.
It's moaning. That's all there is to it now. They've got some sort of article quota to fill. Seriously, just talk about the story for a change, not what the female characters wear.
And what is wrong with cheesecake exactly ? Guess what, men like to look at pictures of hot women, even if they aren't realistic. Do I need to post the Xander Quote again ? It remains the one thing ever said in a Joss Whedon show about men that was actually true.
It's not a zero-sum game with one gender on each end of the see-saw, Hermiod. The people who create misogynistic narratives that see women as a selection of nagging orifices are, by and large, the same ones doling out neanderthal-manchild crap. Because when you see gender as an either/or binary, and a fight where you have to take sides, every character ends up screwed over. The female ones aren't allowed to be active, the male ones can't be 'pussies'.
There are very few male characters who aren't "pussies" these days. Men on TV today are either weak and pathetic or they're the villains.
On the other hand, every action orientated TV show is infested with Hollywood's very poor definition of a "strong woman" - in other words, they have no feelings and they can beat up guys twice their size. Do women feel so badly about themselves that every woman they see on TV has to be a Mary Sue ?
You seem to be under the impression that some mighty feminist inquisition is always on hand, ready to destroy your toys while insisting you aren't allowed to speak out against ugly misrepresentations of men. And yet here you are, using exactly the same medium that those speaking out against ugly misrepresentations of women use, and you've not been struck down or had your internet confiscated yet. (Comics and games are men's last refuge? Seriously? So there were no movies marketed at blokes this year?)
You're doing it right now. Attacking the poster instead of the post.
There are movies and TV shows targeted towards women and movies targeted towards "everyone". The last movie genuinely targeted towards men (one that had a message that women just aren't supposed to understand) specifically was Fight Club and that just got a 10 year anniversary DVD release.
Everything since has had the butt-kicking girl character, who some guys might like, sure, but they're put in there to pander to the female audience to make them feel "empowered" in an age when it's the generation of abandoned teenage boys who lack strong male role models that need that more than anyone.
All boys have are boozy professional footballers and misogynistic rappers to look up to.
They can't even make a show about
Superman without turning it in to a romantic comedy and writing the lead character as a conflicted emo kid. (On the other hand, Smallville did have TV's last strong father character - Jonathan Kent, shame they killed him off.)
On the topic at hand, I disagree with your assessment of Twilight as straight-up pornography. It's definitely gratuitous wish-fulfilment, but part of the built in appeal of Edward's character is that he won't sleep with Bella. So he's protective and broody and swoonsome and sexy while still being entirely sexually non-threatening.
Gratuitous wish-fulfilment porn. It's presenting the kind of a ridiculously artificial male that the teenage girl audience thinks is "dreamy", exactly who they want to have sex with, creating a ridiculous ideal that a generation of teenage girls who think teenage boys, who have a hard enough time as it is, should measure up to.