Come saturday 16th april 2011 there is once more a panel on the subject matter too and it goes roughly translated as "Supergals and the guys who wanna get beaten by them"
As I know most of the guys on the panel it's going to be quite entertaining.
yeah. Guys.
And some of you might have noticed that I am also a straight man.
And as I know that Modesty Blaise was created by men,as was Wonderwoman, Power girl, Supergirl, Catwoman, Elektra, Maggie the mechanic, Tara Chace, Promethea, Tank girl and even the women in Strangers in Paradise.
Those lucky enough to manage getting to Tähtivaeltajapäivä will get some...well most likely interesting answers.
I don't think I need to point out my view. Again.
See I stumbled on this picture, copyright by allan.williams24 in flickr
see? that there con picture has already better elements then most that hollywood has to offer.
A hot, strong independent female and cool monsters known as Predators.
Yeah, sure I know :there's "slice of life" stories too.
Oddly I think the characters they portray in that pic there would have much more interesting slices of life.
(the picture in question is also proof that the physique of female heroes is not wishful thinking on their male creators side)
To my opinion there are three maingroups that have a problem with this kind of heroines are the following:
1) the boys in my sons agegroup 7-10 years old.
The girls are icky to most of them. Give them time and this will change
2)people who dont feel that women are as capable as men.
To these there is no help. It takes a special kind of stupidity not to see beyond the gender, to the individual.
Sadly this group is protected by the same laws that apply to sane people.
and 3)false feminists.
These are the people who see repression and male chauvinism when you have a strong woman and when the woman isn't strong.
Unlike those who realize feminism as equality they have as limited view of both real world and fiction then their counterparts male chauvinists and the aforementioned group 2.
To their defense: they can re-evaluate their views given chance and persistance.
there are few reasons for this rant of mine.
one was the cracked-article about the 5 creepiest sex scenes in comics
the opening line and I quote:
If there's anyone who knows how to handle sex in a mature and tasteful way, well, it's not comic book writers
that sort of got me.
To write, to create, I feel I need to know what I am doing and why. Do I have an ulterior motive? A subversive one?
You see the dieselpunk story is advancing but there are two and because I would really like to have a female protagonist.
I dont feel ashamed to be a man. Men have caused loads of problems and while I can help in fixing existing ones the mistakes other men do and have done are theirs. Not mine.
And as I know I am ok with my sexuality. So it's not that either. But the number of bondage one stumbles on a normal search about this is baffling.
Those knowing me and my charmingly blunt bullterrier kind mentality, it cant be trying to pander to the masses.
Never understood why people would like to do something creatively just to appeal to others instead of doing stuff one themselves enjoys but isn't available.
If anyone else gets fun out of it, learns something or so on that's grand.
All these answers seemingly didn't tell me why my brain has decided that now is the time to have women, girls, grrllls and femme fatales as heroes.
One answer is there are now artists capable enough to present the fairer sex too.
And one is that I simply prefer beauty.
If there is no reason to choose a modern car in a story I choose a classic instead, the 1950s 1930's kind.
If there is a flyig machine of any kind in a story and it can be bi-plane or single prop engine or a zeppelin.
I rather use Alphonse Mucha instead of that god awful Jeff Koons.
Remember I said there were reasons, plural, to this post?
It pics like one before and this:
from Brian C Carters Fanboys dream.
Not showing them to more people would be a crime of some sort. A travesty against being geek and proud of it.
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