Ann Nocenti can sometimes be heavy-handed, but in her 80s/90s prime I thought she was one of the better superhero writers at working political/social issues into her comics, because she didn't make every character parrot her own view, and treated other views with respect. One example of this is a "Classic X-Men" story where a young Hellfire Club employee criticizes the skimpy, objectifying outfits, and Emma Frost makes this huge pages-long speech about why wearing skimpy outfits is actually an empowering act. You can tell it's not a point of view the writer agrees with, but it doesn't straw-man Emma, it allows her to make the best possible defense.

Many writers, when they deal with controversial issues, have a habit of straw-manning, for a lot of reasons: maybe they can't empathize with those who hold abhorrent views, maybe they're afraid they'll get in trouble if they make bad views seem too sympathetic, etc. But the alternative is just having one view be completely right and another be obviously wrong, and that's boring.