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Wednesday Night Link Spam
Jun. 9th, 2010 11:59 pmI'm done with all my exams, yay! And I did better on the non-Shakespeare papers - my American Lit final was only five hours late, and my short story final was only late by about twenty minutes, mostly because my printer tried to eat it. So that's...sort of like progress. *sheepish* Whatever, I'm just happy I didn't have a total meltdown in the middle and not get half my exams written at all, and grade-wise I'm not terribly worried. Mostly I just want to sleep forever. Which I can't actually do, because I have EPIC PACKING.
I'm sure most of the people I know who do the comics thing have already heard about Ian Sattler's racefail (the erasure of legacy characters of color by rebooting back to the white Silver Age characters isn't racism! DC is diverse! We have blue and pink and green characters!), but here's another winner from the same convention: Bill Willingham says he "wanted to gun down those girls who kept asking about a memorial case [for Spoiler]."
You know, I love comics, I really do. But stuff like this keeps coming up and I can't help but think that so much of the time, I'm reading books written by men who really don't want to be reminded I exist. Because then they can keep pretending it's okay if girls in comic books are treated like they are less interesting/competent/important than the men, if they are treated like nothing but sex objects, if they're depowered, if they're raped, if they're murdered. I mean, it's not like they're interesting characters in their own right. It's not like anybody in the audience is identifying with them. It's not like girls read comics.
I don't really want to end on something that angry-making, so have another link instead: WHAT IS THIS I DON'T EVEN
Supernatural the anime? Who was on the executive board for this decision? And what were they smoking? OMG IT LOOKS SO AWESOME I WANT TO SEE IT RIGHT NOW
I'm sure most of the people I know who do the comics thing have already heard about Ian Sattler's racefail (the erasure of legacy characters of color by rebooting back to the white Silver Age characters isn't racism! DC is diverse! We have blue and pink and green characters!), but here's another winner from the same convention: Bill Willingham says he "wanted to gun down those girls who kept asking about a memorial case [for Spoiler]."
You know, I love comics, I really do. But stuff like this keeps coming up and I can't help but think that so much of the time, I'm reading books written by men who really don't want to be reminded I exist. Because then they can keep pretending it's okay if girls in comic books are treated like they are less interesting/competent/important than the men, if they are treated like nothing but sex objects, if they're depowered, if they're raped, if they're murdered. I mean, it's not like they're interesting characters in their own right. It's not like anybody in the audience is identifying with them. It's not like girls read comics.
I don't really want to end on something that angry-making, so have another link instead: WHAT IS THIS I DON'T EVEN
Supernatural the anime? Who was on the executive board for this decision? And what were they smoking? OMG IT LOOKS SO AWESOME I WANT TO SEE IT RIGHT NOW