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lang_ea (lang_ea) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-11-13 18:43:00

Entry tags:

era: bronze age, genre: romance, publisher: marvel comics

Romance Comics, and FEMINISM
Just want to share and point to a link from a very nice blog; 'Lady That's My Skull'

And I really want to share, most especially as I stumbled on a posting of a certain romance comic of the 70s (my fave); but also a rare one that...erm, talks about 'feminism' and how it's been related with this media material.
Still, I really should not relate how I was rendered completely speechless by how WHACKED the characters and story idea is. Not really about how feminism is dismissed as 'a whatchamacallit that OTHER women are obsessed about'; but more on...well, seriously, you just HAVE to read it to get what I mean.

A Marvel Romance Comic 'My Love' , published in 1973. Read and gawp, people; read and gawp.

http://thatsmyskull.blogspot.com/2007/12/my-love-10-no-man-is-my-master.html

Also, rather meaningless question; but does this guy look familiar? Seriously, I keep seeing that same face and hair cut creeping up constantly? What was going on, some movie star of bygone days influencing that look? :S

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	halloweenjack 2009-11-13 07:16 pm UTC (link)
	I think that it's just Generic 70s Dude, also spotted in the pages of Playboy. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	lang_ea 2009-11-13 07:55 pm UTC (link)
	Oh okay. I wasn't so sure. For a moment there I thought it was taken off of Oliver Reed (DAMN, did he terrify me when I saw him as Bill Sykes as a kid). Still, he does look like he's trying to hold in something in the first page, I swear to god. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	mechanicaljewel 2009-11-13 07:18 pm UTC (link)
	I read the whole thing, and...oh dear. I think I'll just leave it at that. (Reply to this) (Thread)

lang_ea
2009-11-13 07:45 pm UTC (link)

Oh dear is a better reaction than the choking sounds I made when I found it.

I mean, not like it insults me or anything; just at that crazy heroine who can't seem to know how to interact and date someone properly (funny enough, that's what actually bothered me) XD.

God man, everything she thinks is going wrong on a date could easily be fixed by simple common sense. Don't like waiting in the cold? Go meet inside somewhere. Don't want to contribute any ideas to do on a date? Then don't go out! Jeez!

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	stig 2009-11-13 07:26 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, Stan. Always classy. (Reply to this)

	lang_ea 2009-11-13 07:39 pm UTC (link)
	I know, right? Especially Bev's quote: "Female freedom isn't about dates--or Romance! It's about job equality --and things like that." I totally lol'd at that last part. SURE, Bev; like you'd know what work is. Or...femme equality at that matter. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	geoffsebesta 2009-11-13 08:01 pm UTC (link)
	I bet she has a Ph D. in "Things Like That." (Reply to this) (Parent)

	midare 2009-11-13 08:45 pm UTC (link)
	has no words (Reply to this)

	strannik01 2009-11-13 09:25 pm UTC (link)
	And this, my friends, is why romance comics died a well-deserved death in the 1970s. (Reply to this)

	espanolbot 2009-11-13 09:49 pm UTC (link)
	Ah, these things were always fair in their depiction of women, (Reply to this) (Thread)

lang_ea
2009-11-13 09:55 pm UTC (link)

WHOA-HO-HO! MAN! Ba-ZING!

Either this comic is responsible for doing the 'slutty babysitter/married man' trope overdone, or it already was before this? I don't even know.

Still, reminds me of Scary Movie 2; "I'm positive my husband's having an affair with the baby-sitter. Especially since we don't have any children."

Ah, awesome. I wonder how this trainwreck interpreted the actual story? :3

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	espanolbot 2009-11-13 09:58 pm UTC (link)
	Probably with the subtly of the implict incest subplot of this one, (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	lang_ea 2009-11-13 10:13 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah, this pic expresses alot. Where'd you get this stuff anyway?! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	espanolbot 2009-11-13 10:37 pm UTC (link)
	Well the first I had saved on my computer from Aggggeeeessss ago and can't remember where I got it from, and the second I got from the Superdickery.com forum. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	kamino_neko 2009-11-14 04:10 am UTC (link)
	Eulice! Hello! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	volksjager 2009-11-13 11:16 pm UTC (link)
	That green dress is THE worst... (Reply to this) (Parent)

	strannik01 2009-11-13 10:54 pm UTC (link)
	Either this comic is responsible for doing the 'slutty babysitter/married man' trope overdone, or it already was before this? I don't even know. This trope has been around since at least Victorian era. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	tsunamiwombat 2009-11-14 12:31 am UTC (link)
	Mostly because of the tremendous amount of repression in the culture of that era (sex even between a married couple was frowned upon except strictly for procreation), wealthy men usually found 'relief' with their servants on the slide. See also, Thomas Jefferson and his you-know-whats. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	red_cyclone 2009-11-14 04:50 am UTC (link)
	Hence in The Crimson Petal and The White the man moving a prostitute in to be his daughter's governess. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	icon_uk 2009-11-14 04:01 pm UTC (link)
	More recently seen in "Doctor Who: The Next Doctor" Christmas special, where the faux-Doctor's companion is a Rosita, who was working as a prostitute. At the end of the episode, the Doctor recommends she stay with the family as a governess/companion, as she had shown initiative and courage when facing the Cybermen. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	petalsinthewind 2009-11-13 10:07 pm UTC (link)
	:\| (Reply to this)

	lady_mondegreen 2009-11-13 11:15 pm UTC (link)
	The waiter's a jerk, too. Why doesn't he just ask her directly, instead of speaking about her like she's not even in the room? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	fredneil.livejournal.com 2009-11-14 12:45 am UTC (link)
	Since he knows Mr. Howard by name, he was probably faced with the choice of being polite to someone he might never see again or staying on the good side of a regular customer. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	No matter how many times I see this, every time shocks me just the same. ccsharumun 2009-11-14 03:07 am UTC (link)
	... (Reply to this)

	superfan1 2009-11-14 08:55 am UTC (link)
	Ye Gods that was unbearable. (Reply to this)

	icon_uk 2009-11-14 04:09 pm UTC (link)
	Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.... (Reply to this)

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	It seems to me that everything she wants in a man, except he's an asshole? Frankly speaking, this comic book is less offensive for feminists than Power Girl's sexy costume, don't you think so? sex toy is the most fun you can have without laughing (Reply to this)

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