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[neadods]

Article recommendation: mtgat's Women Read Comics and Other Things You Never Knew

Why do we keep having to bring up, in front of guys who have been chatting with us about this show or book for years that why, yes, women are in the audience? Why do we keep having to point out from the front row that, wow, the content we squeed about last week is massively offensive towards women this week? Why do conventions still have trouble establishing and enforcing sexual harassment policies? Why do networks disregard us in the viewership numbers when we're half the audience? Why do we have to be the ones pointing out that, in fact, someone would catch a cold fighting crime on rooftops wearing that in the winter?

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[fabricdragon.livejournal.com]

well. the anime and manga crowd HAS caught on.
anime conventions have serious anti harassment policies (at least the two i have seen the rules for)

but no, american comic/western comic publishers and conventions seem to be lagging behind severely.

and its the publishers/editors not the writers alone. some writers are very good about this, some are terrible.... but the trend seems to be worse in the comics that swap out writers very fast, where you dont know from one comic to another who wil be writing..

and yes, many of the female comic book characters seem to have the obligatory two super powers:
keep the suit on
temperature control

[fourzoas.livejournal.com]

This made for a nice pairing with this video game industry story on the Today Show this morning: http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26184891/vp/31423954#31423954

[neadods.livejournal.com]

I confess I haven't watched it all the way through, but I always worry that the "girl games" are lame.

[ladyfox7oaks.livejournal.com]

Why do we have to be the ones pointing out that, in fact, someone would catch a cold fighting crime on rooftops wearing that in the winter?

Or at the very least, a NASTY case of hypothermia. (And the Chafing! AGH!)

[neadods.livejournal.com]

I have, or had, a Red Sonja issue where she specifically said she stopped wearing the chain mail bikini because it chafed.

[shawan-7.livejournal.com]

30 years ago when I worked at Marvel, I pointed out that Phoenix (Jean Gray) of the X-Men was going to trip in those 4 inch heels.

The artist's comment: she looks cool.

Things haven't changed.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

*eyeroll*