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arbre_rieur (arbre_rieur) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-09-24 13:11:00

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publisher: bluewater, title: female force

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title: female force, publisher: bluewater

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box_in_the_box
2009-09-25 05:18 am UTC (link)

I love how soullessly mercenary this whole "Female Force" line is. It pays lip service (ha) to feminism, while at the same time offering no more insight on, or respect for, its subjects than any checkout line paperback. It's such a blatant fucking cash-grab, because if they had any sort of consistent ideology behind "what constitutes a positive female role model," then there's no way that the same people who published titles about Hillary Clinton and J.K. Rowling would do the same for Sarah Palin and Stephenie Meyer (or vice versa, depending on their politics).

If enough people lobbied them strongly enough, I seriously believe they'd publish a "Female Force: Nina Hartley" title.

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	timgueguen 2009-09-25 06:12 am UTC (link)
	Hartley turned up in The Economist of all places in an article about how the California porn industry is having sales problems. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	aaron_bourque 2009-09-25 06:27 am UTC (link)
	If enough people lobbied them strongly enough, I seriously believe they'd publish a "Female Force: Nina Hartley" title. . . . Hmm. Wonder Woman 600, or Female Force: Nina Hartley? Decisions, decisions. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	psychop_rex 2009-09-25 08:17 am UTC (link)
	I get the feeling I'm going to regret asking this, but - who's Nina Hartley? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	box_in_the_box 2009-09-25 08:25 am UTC (link)
	Nina Hartley. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	psychop_rex 2009-09-25 09:18 am UTC (link)
	Ah, OK. Actually, the whole, uh, sex thing aside, it sounds like her life would make for a pretty interesting comic - but you're right, it's not likely to happen. She sounds like an interesting character, though. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	pmagod 2009-09-25 09:48 am UTC (link)
	Wait.... Sarah Palin got one of these? Is there a panel where she shoots things? (Reply to this) (Parent)

	nezchan 2009-09-25 12:54 pm UTC (link)
	Mimi Miyagi always impressed me, she's quite the businesswoman. She's a libertarian, but we all have faults. (Reply to this) (Parent)

colonel_green
2009-09-27 12:09 am UTC (link)

because if they had any sort of consistent ideology behind "what constitutes a positive female role model," then there's no way that the same people who published titles about Hillary Clinton and J.K. Rowling would do the same for Sarah Palin and Stephenie Meyer (or vice versa, depending on their politics).

I don't know. All four of those people are extremely successful in their chosen field; that's non-ideologically a positive thing for girls.

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	box_in_the_box 2009-09-27 02:24 am UTC (link)
	Stephenie Meyer and Sarah Palin have succeeded by reinforcing an unholy shit-ton of negative tropes about women, though. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	colonel_green 2009-09-27 04:07 am UTC (link)
	That's opinion (I don't care for either, of course, but that's not the end-all, be-all). Obviously quite a few women like what they do. That women can be successful regardless of what political ideology (or whatever, since Meyer's works aren't political) they choose is a positive. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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