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muffinator (muffinator) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-05-30 12:53:00

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char: marvel girl/phoenix/jean grey, char: polaris/lorna dane, char: scarlet witch/wanda maximoff, creator: joe ahearne, creator: serge lapointe, creator: steve kurth, publisher: marvel comics, title: fantastic force

Stay classy Marvel
I looked back a bit and I haven't seen this posted but I just joined so I might be mistaken in which case forgive the repeat.

So when I looked through Uncanny X-men on a recent bout of masochism my righteous feminism sense were all ready pinging and on the last page of Fantastic Force they went wild. (There's some alternate timelines involved before people go 'where did this come from' on me.)

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Edited because I don't want the focus to be on my comments on comics and on the panel itself.

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kitty_tc_69
2009-06-01 09:15 pm UTC (link)

Ok. You obviously are of the school that images exist without social context, and that no one ever has the right to see said context. You liked Heroes for Hire, didn't saw anything wrong with the covers, and are mad as hell that the book was canceled. But you know, as much as you have the right to be angry, we have the right to be angered by 'deathtrap' covers that depict heroines as damisels in distress.

Heroes end up in distress sometimes. I gave a nice list of male heroes in distress in one of my earlier posts.

And the "school" I'm of is the one that says that feminism needs to focus on real harm and real instances of misogyny, like this "Hysteries" garbage that's the topic of the post we're on, rather than stir up tempests in teapots about what something "looks" like. Like I said, as a likely result of this controversy, we lost a very rare female-majority book that displayed the kind of strong female character portrayals we have all too few of to begin with. It also had the very real potential of costing a female artist (again, a rare thing in western comics) the chance at gaining more work. It's damned sad when the male EIC of Marvel has to risk the ire of feminists to hire a female artist, but that's what it's come down to. Way to defend women, there!

The fact is, if the feminism in comics movement gets labeled as extremist and shrill, it's a surefire ticket to getting our voices ignored. Then, when there's real issues to combat, like female characters getting the fridge or actual instances of rape being used as cheap story fodder (Identity Crisis, anyone?), our power is dulled by the incessant cries of wolf.

There's a damned good reason I referenced the concept of a circular firing squad.

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