Again, the issue is not that woman are always objectified/sexualized(because they aren’t always) and men never are(because like you said, sometimes they are drawn in compromising poses or attire), the issue is that it happens on an unequal scale. Sure, Nightwing’s butt gets plenty of shots, and maybe once in a blue moon Superman’s butt will be shown on the cover. But these occurances are few and far between. I would also like to point out that there are some really amazing artists who draw women in strong action poses, with not alot of revealed body parts. But that isn’t the norm. The norm for female characters is for them to have impractically revealing costumes and sexualized poses. Does that occasionally happen for male characters too? Yes, but it isn’t the norm.
I’m going to give you a little test to try out….Google search some images of the most popular male comic book characters and then the most popular female characters(it doesn’t have to be the most popular, it could be any male and female characters, really) and compare their costumes. Overall, how much skin do the female characters show? How much do the male? You’ll notice that almost all of the male characters are fully clothed…like literally head-to-to covered. The women? Guaranteed their stomach, butt, thighs, or cleavage is showing…or maybe even all of the above. Now examine the positions they are drawn in. How do they compare? Feel free to check out fanart while you’re at it, because this issue spills over into fandom as well.
And that’s just one symptom of the sexism that is displayed in comics.
