Sexy? So what?
[Warning: this is just me reposting & barely expanding on a comment on someone else's blog. again.]

Hence:

"Not like I want to deliberately hurt anyone's feelings by saying "you're fat, so I don't find you sexually attractive", but there it is, and maybe you're a wonderful, beautiful soul under that cellulite, but if you're overweight, that's just going to limit how deep our relationship goes. Whether that's fair or not, that's how it is. And you can't impose different standards for attractiveness on me just because we should all be all understanding and not judging people by their looks. Adding, what, fifty pounds to the physique of many a superheroine would make them that much less appealing to me.

"Tell me - would you want a 250-pound Nightwing running around? Or better yet, a 350-pound Guy Gardner? His ring's power comes from his mind, so he doesn't have to actually keep fit, he could scarf Cheetos down constantly inbetween buying buckets at the KFC..."

Huh?

I think your argument went off the rails when you seemed to decide that of course all superheroes are supposed to be sexy, & for that matter, sexy to you.

(And speaking of rails, Twiggy was rail-thin. Scary.) See here.

I don't find Batman sexy. Just don't. He looks like a guy I'd want to punch in the face. I find the Ray sympathetic, but sexy might be pushing it. I'm not so much into guys. If I were, maybe I'd be into Nightwing; even as a straight guy, I can see the sexy there.

Now, female characters, some of them are sexy. Donna Troy is sexy. Jessica Drew is sexy. Lia "Looker" Briggs is sexy, & a good thing; that's her schtick.

But there are plenty of female characters that are sympathetic & interesting to me, that aren't exactly sexy to me. I like Wolfsbane, from New Mutants & X-Factor, but not necessarily in that way. Someone else might find her sexy, & I can see it, but it's not the sexy that makes her interesting, or even that makes her likable. Same deal with Storm, whom I love as a character. Is she sexy? Sure. Is that what's important about her, what makes her attractive to me as a character? Not so much. I started on X-Men as a kid, where I identified with Kitty & Illyana as the kid characters, so I like Storm as this cool "older sister" character, like she was to Kitty. Her sexuality is just a small part of her.

And then there are characters like Amanda Waller from Suicide Squad, who's not built for spandex & knows it. She's not a super-type in tights; she gives characters like that their orders. Not sexy to me, maybe to somebody; but I love the Wall like you wouldn't believe.

Good characters != sexy characters.