I'd have to agree with him.
You posit that there is a difference in the way male and female superhero by creating a nuance that fits your POV. For example; male characters don't have to be good looking?Yes, they usually are and their usually white (one could define that as a sexual standard).
Actually, I could do the same thing and say there is no difference.
The difference is in the presentation. If you watch a Michael Bay movie, the way he visually presents women is different from the way he presents men. I'm very influenced by film theory so ultimately my arguments are going to be expressed through that sort of lens and all the stuff written about the idea of a male gaze is what these people tend to talk about when talking about the ways women are presented in media. It's not a nuance I created, it's a nuance that has existed, at least in the film world, since the 1960s.
Yeah looking back at that with more hindsight, I got ahead of myself with the attractive male heroes part. I think there's still something to be said about how male heroes are drawn in a manner in which their physique reflects their superpowered status while female heroes swing wildly in the other direction. Are there many artists that draw muscular women? Jim Lee, I think (edit: Damn I'm pretty sure I'm confusing him with someone else I'll figure it out)? And I know people will be like "but that's just real life" but we're talking about superheroes so who cares.
Also if we're working from the assumption that movies, comic books, etc are made to appeal, visually, to a straight (white) male audience (an assumption that should be criticized, of course; I agree with Maddox here) then the guy doesn't want to fukk the male character, he wants to be him. You desire to be James Bond, you don't desire him sexually.
I don't even think the Spider-Woman cover itself is a big deal. I still think it's bad but that's because it's a lame cover by a good artist, not because of sexualization or whatever. shyt, it's not even the most ridiculous Marvel comic in terms of gender. And I guess this Spider-Woman comic is marketed towards female readers? The bigger deal is the very specific trends in media when it comes to the representation of women and very little of it has to do with "well women are afraid that people will look at them and also that people won't look at them."
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I'm not goin' let u slide on admitting that you're wrong but still send a parting shot.
A skrull replacing her was the best thing done for her in years.
But thats a comic book for a hardcore porn company though. 
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But for real, it also depends on who's drawing them of course. I really like the Bruce Timm animated universe stuff, even though his style is all about the large frame men/smaller frame women. I think when we're talking about escapism and fantasy, the proportions argument matters when these characters are presented as the pinnacle of (super)human physicality, as the idealized person. 
