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Wonder Woman Gets a Woman's Point-of-View
theodp writes "Traditionally, comics have been by, for and about men. But more and more women are breaking into the traditional boys' club. Beginning with Wonder Woman #14, the superhero's tale is being told by Gail Simone. It's a break from nearly 66 years of being written for the most part by men. '[Her work as a blogger] led to a writing job for the all-female comic 'Birds of Prey' for DC--which became a short-lived, live-action TV series--and in turn won her the "Wonder Woman" job. Simone says she sees a change since she wrote her refrigerator rant 10 years ago. 'At that time, the trend was towards grim stories where female characters were killed,' she says. 'We only had a handful of female characters to look up to. Today we're not seeing those stories so much.'"
Jack Nicholson was once asked in a movie, "How do you write about women so well?" to which he replied "I think of a man. Then I take away reason and accountability." Comics are boys club because boys don't want to read soap opera emo trash. Not that I'm a traitor to my gender, its just that its true. So maybe if this chick can bring those two little spices into the comic, she deserves to write it.
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Is this really such a big break when novelist Jodi Picoult wrote Wonder Woman last year, and is a woman herself?
William Marsden created Wonder Woman as a role model of what he considered feminine strengths. These are very much the traditional 'yin' feminine values and focused less on female empowerment and much more on beauty, demure behavior, and obedience. Women can be strong, Marsden reasoned, by focusing on their womanhood and need not waste time trying to fit into male roles.
Marsden was also a bit of a pervert. His wife and their live-in slave... er... maid, lived in more-or-less open polygamy. They were his bondage slaves, and were apparently quite happy to be so. This theme, of feminine happiness through obedience and subservience, is repeated frequently through Wonder Woman. Not only did Wonder Woman frequently get tied up with her own magic lasso, but pretty much all the Amazon girls loved being bound, spanked, or otherwise disciplined by their superiors.
While you may disagree with Marsden's symbolism, any retelling of Wonder Woman that leaves out the bondage isn't really doing the subject very much justice. Wonderwoman need not end up stuffed in a refrigerator, but she does need to be frequently paddled to keep the story moving.
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Her work as a blogger? Simone has been working in the comics industry for almost a decade now and got the job of writing Wonder Woman due to a solid history of writing well crafted, memorable, stories. She has worked for both the major comic companies and a few of the minor ones writing everything from established superhero books to quirky creator-owned stuff. To suggest that she got a high profile job because of her BLOG is kind of insulting to the hard work she has put in over the years.
Um...yeah...but no
Read the rant. Completely disagree. FYI I don't have hairy pits or legs.
Doesn't every character/hero of consequence go through some life-defining moment. She writes as is every female goes off to a grimson end or a tragic moment but uh hello...there's life....there's character building...there's a good friggin story.
Look at the list and it blatantly leaves out key figures in the comic universes. Examples:
Superman died
Batman was paralyzed only to come back and take out the sorry sack of shit who replaced him
Robin died
Spawn was a crusader who was reborn in hell...how more tragic is fighting for what you believe to be a noble cause and hello you go straight to hell
Wolverine was used, abused, lost his memory and then ended up working for the X-men
Sorry...but a personal pet peeve is a feminist fight without a true argument. Sorry to say but women were allowed the same fates as men. I personally love when the woman is a villain. At least we're acknowledged as a threat. A good story always involves a sad or grimsom moment for the lead character. Thankfully women have been subjected to same fates of men in the comic world.
If you'd turn away from your thrice daily dose of 'liberal outrage', and crawl out of your parent's basement, you'd realize that the 'Nazi Socialist PC ball buster' only really exists in the minds of men who are insecure about their own masculinity. Others who continue propagate such trash, do so as they believe that some reward could be gained (ratings, votes, book sales, and other forms of income in particular).
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Interestingly, Marston is also frequently credited as the inventor of the Polygraph. He discouraged its use as a law enforcement device.
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Seems to be more woman comic authors in Japan.
Naoko Takeuchi did a comic in 1992 that became not one, but TWO TV series...one ran for 200 eps, the other for 51...
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Oh, I guarantee that women like that exist. There is simply too much diversity in the world for them not to. It's the principle of "If you can think of something, it already exists on the Internet, and there's probably already fetish porn about it."
But while I wouldn't call you a "Nazi Socialist PC ball buster", look what you did here: "men who are insecure about their own masculinity."
I don't disagree that it's possible to be feminist without being a feminazi, and you may even be right that the feminazi is a myth. But I've seen women propagate and participate in that myth.
When attacking others for their intolerance or prejudice, it helps to not be showing your own prejudice in the same breath. (Not even going to start with the "crawl out of your parent's basement" comment.)
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Of course their masculinity is threatened. What psycho-sexual complex do you think something like this springs from if it weren't?
And if it's on the Internet, it must be true!
In 1993 I was a freshman at a large university. I saw a fellow student staggering under a double armload of textbooks, and I did precisely what I would do for any student in a fellow situation: I opened the door. The fact this student was female had no bearing on my decision. In return for this, I got a glare and then a shouted "You know, it's because of domineering, overbearing males like you that one in four college women is raped!" Then she stormed off and found another entrance to the building, just so she could avoid the door I opened for her.
But wait, she's not the caricature the far-right draws of the militant feminist. She was just a jerk. Women can be jerks as easily as men.
A few years ago I was talking to a Women's Studies professor at Florida State and I related this story. I also mentioned how angry I had been at the time, still was, to be lumped in with rapists just because I opened a door for someone who had a double armload of books. This professor listened, considered her words very carefully, and then said clearly I needed to take her introductory Women's Studies course so that I could understand the jerk's "context". I said I didn't really care about her context, it was a stupid comparison to make, and the hate directed at me was entirely undeserved and uncivilized. "Yes, but that's the point, you see," she explained to me patiently. "You've never opened your eyes and thought about what sort of life experiences could make her react in such a way, or the actions you did which provoked this response. You only care about your own male-oriented view and undercutting the validity of her life experience." (I am not quoting her exactly, but I am quoting her pretty darn close. It's been a few years, but the outrageousness of the dialog has made it stick in my memory very clearly.)
She went on for about another ten minutes before I had enough and stormed away.
The woman in 1993 was just a jerk. The Florida State Women's Studies prof who defended her and not once expressed a sentiment of "yes, she was a jerk"? She was the right-wing caricature of a feminazi.
Fortunately, people like her seem to be rare. At least, I've never found one outside of a Women's Studies department. (And I've met one Women's Studies prof since then who characterized the Florida State prof as "what a bitch!", which did my heart no end of good.)
funny you should mention this. I saw something on the history channel about Wonder Woman and way back in the day when it first came out, even the author admits it was practically kinky porn with clothes on. It was like some pervy bondage comic. They showed shots of some pages and I was like WHOA seriously wtf.
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It's a boy's club because it's a boy's club?
That is, there are more men writing comics because there are more boys reading comics?
I mean, not that I mind it -- I do feel that soap opera emo trash doesn't help anyone, and I am a guy, after all. But I wonder, is there something about the medium itself that would prevent soap opera emo trash from succeeding?
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"If you'd turn away from your thrice daily dose of 'liberal outrage', and crawl out of your parent's basement, you'd realize that the 'Nazi Socialist PC ball buster' only really exists in the minds of men who are insecure about their own masculinity."
Sorry, you are wrong. Some women take pride being just that, and they announce it loudly. You really should look around a little bit more.
Also, stop propagating the 'basement' stereo type, it only make you look stupid and petty.
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come on, doesn't anybody here read comics? CBR? Wizard? Wow.
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Not one of the three posts I've responded to even indicated that the OP was an ass. Instead you'all seem to insist that they do exist, and actually you are right, they do, it's a big world and not enough people are on lithium. Claiming that some random loser on the internet lives in his parent's basement is far more likely on target, and nowhere near the insult that was given. One is far more likely to find a right wing nut job than a militant feminist, and I believe that I've done angered a whole nest of them, again.
BTW, for the record, I'm a dude, and I'd hardly call myself a feminist, but I really hate it when women of are subject to these sorts of bulling. Congratulations on your post, I'm sure that some idiot will take it as further proof that women deserve this kind of treatment.
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Scared people react badly sometimes. I suspect that's what the academic was talking about with "context". It sounds like quite a harmless act intending to be helpful caused a bit of association there and got the reaction. Misunderstandings often for incedibly stupid reasons happen sometimes just due to eye contact - don't worry about it and don't assume you can define somebodies personality from one bad reaction.
Really? Perhaps feminist BB are just more common in Australia.
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Next time you find yourself wondering why no woman will sleep with you, refer back to this comment.
Perhaps, but you will never meet one (feminist BB that is), and one is extremely more likely to run across a man who is a rapist, murder, a liar, 'insecure about their own masculinity' or living in their parents basement.
Oh, please.. quit this crap.
Feminists always come with arguments on how women are the default victims and stuff, and assume that women have no issues whatsoever.
When feminists speak, there's always a logical explanation for a woman's actions. But a man's actions always fit in the rape-murder-domination-masculine_insecurity category.
And this 'masculinity insecurity' argument is so tired is not even an argument. Nowadays it's simply a way women, ones with issues, found to offend men.
Still, no compassion for this girl you scared, and it's fairly clear that you scared her. Yes, it's likely she might have acted different if some girl ran up. However, just imagine a shy girl, first semester (maybe) in a large University , away from home, maybe just out of the 'date rape discussion' they force on every freshmen, walking back to her dorm, minding her own business. Random guy comes up and without any introduction get into her personal space. Then she gives a quick not even half though explanation, about why she got jumpy, but that proves she is a militant feminist.
What you should have done was announce yourself, saying perhaps 'let me get that for you'. I do it all the time, and a couple of times I've had them size me up for a second, in particular when I've blindsided them. I sincerely hope that someone doesn't judge you as harshly. Dude, you really need to take a fresh look at both of those conversations, I'll be that you see them differently, if you step back from yourself.
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no, but I sure did... *shudder*
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Wonder Woman in a P.O.V.? That's hawt!
"the 'Nazi Socialist PC ball buster' only really exists in the minds of men who are insecure about their own masculinity."
You would be more convincing if you left out at least the most tired of Nazi-Socialist-PC-ball-busting clichés.
as a romance novel written from the point of view of the ridiculously sensitive male leads in the story:
"your tits are huge, let's shag"
yeah, that's going to sell romance novels
impossible proportioned female superheroes exist to satisfy the id of prepubescent boys. there is no female pov to these characters that has any meaning. they are stereotypical characters meant to satisfy male views about solving problems by fighting. women have their own fantasy fiction with impossible male characters meant to satisfy female views about the glory of courtship with a great guy
why mess with these shallow fantasies? nothing is improved, the value of the characters are just negated for their intended audiences
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Heh... so basically you're saying that it started as a pervert's and misogynist's substitute for porn. Even the sophistry about a female's role and strength being reduced to obedience and modesty isn't entirely a new philosophical concept, it's pretty much standard misogynistic stuff.
Well, gee, I guess you illustrate perfectly why women didn't really take her as a role model.
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I was referring, of course, to Sailor Moon.
BTW, Pokemon's run for I want to say 500-some-aught eps already and still running...
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She wrote another "answer" rant called "Dead Men Walking", which selectively listed male heroes who had died and came back.
Her rants could probably be used in a textbook as an extreme example of biased sampling. They are extremely annoying to anyone with a science background, or people otherwise inclined to rational thought.
However, given her background as a hairdresser, one can maybe excuse the poor reasoning, and praise the clear prose. Too much logic is probably a handicap when writing superhero comics, if there is anything the superhero genre does not lend itself to, it is logic.
Actually, you're onto something there, but IMHO that quote really just illustrates the fact that men are more likely to relate to another man's view of women. It's because both have the same stereotypes and wishful-thinking ideas, while reality often tends to not quite fit that.
So, yes, if Jack Nicholson describes women as the men's stereotype of women, including the illogical and unaccountable part, other men will find it a perfect portrayal of women.
It's not even something new. In medieval Japan the justification of why only men are allowed to play women roles in Kabuki theatre was... that supposedly women are too close to feminity to play it accurately. At first read it sounds like a major WTF. If they're closer to feminity, wouldn't that make them _more_ believable in a woman's role? Well not unless you also consider the audience: for men. A real woman wouldn't fit the male audience's stereotypes and prejudices as well as a man playing those stereotypes. Those guys came to see their stereotypical medieval woman image, all airhead, submissive and utterly unable to even exist without a Real Man lording over her. They want to see someone embodying that stereotype to the letter, and sometimes melodramatically, not someone showing the quirks of a real woman.
Or you can see the same phenomenon on MUDs and, to some extent, MMOs. Men pretending to be women are quite often more believed in that role, than the real women. Believed by other men, that is. Because they fit the audience's distorted notions better than the real thing does.
Yes, there are also the ones dancing naked in the Stormwind fountain. But just because _some_ people are unable to play a stereotype well, it doesn't mean that it doesn't work for more talented authors and actors.
Just to be entirely fair, though, I suppose the opposite should also be true. A man portrayed by a woman should probably also be more believable to other women, than the real thing.
I've actually had the mis-fortune of seeing a few romance movies, and the guys were portrayed as far from the real thing as you can get without adding tentacles and bug eyes. Whether it was Mr Perfect wooing the heroine or the henchman or whatever, those just fell somewhere in _my_ uncanny valley. They acted disturbingly not quite like real men. The actors may have been biologically male, but the role wasn't. But apparently the core demographic for that kind of thing doesn't have their suspension of disbelief tripped.
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Most cases of college rape are done by people the female knows. I do wish people would remember rape in any form requires you to have easy access to a person, so the chances of a stranger trying to sexually use you, is relativly slim (not to say one shouldn't be wary of course).
Incidentally, why do you assume I'm angry with women instead of this one female who for all we know doesn't exist? It's rather hard to be mad against a sex I consider equal to my own, but perhaps you think differently.
You are confusing "understandable" with "acceptable". In most cases, there is an understandable reason for unacceptable behaviour. For example, rapists have themselves frequently been molested as children. While that makes it possible to understand their behavior, it does not excuse it.
Now, in some extreme cases past experiences may be considered to be so extreme that the person in fact could not act in any other way than he/she did, and so is not responsible for his/her actions. That is also known as an insanity plea.
Since you were excusing the girl and laying all the blame on the guy, it does not seem likely you were just giving an explanation for her actions. You were in fact trying to shift blame. Exactly the same thing as first defending rapists by saying they had a bad childhood, and then going on to explain how it was the girl's fault anyway for wearing such revealing clothes.
Or perhaps you are arguing that the girl was crazy?
...didn't think so.
And yes, I am using rapists as an example exactly because this is a feminist discussion. Tends to flush out the hypocrisy...
If you associate opening a door with being raped then that's not the fault of the door-opener. The wallet example is a good one. If you pick up someone's wallet (or other important/valuable item) and hand it to them, you would surely be justifiably offended if they yelled 'Thief!' snatched it from your hands and ran away. You would be even more offended if they incorporated some prejudiced slur into their justification for calling you a thief - be it a reference to your gender, race or something else. Whatever experiences that person has had, they are still a jerk, or at least perhaps paranoid to the point of illness, if they associate a helpful action with malicious intent.
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What orginal poster/troll? You replied to a guy talking about Wonder Woman in a pantsuit with a rant about militant feminists. Did you mean to reply to some other post?
This is slashdot. Even people who agree with you will point out if you overstate your case, bring up an incorrect side comment, or simply use "their" instead of "there". It doesn't always mean they are defending the parent or grandparent or great grandparent poster.
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Just like the guy doesn't know why the girl acted like a jerk (and yes, she can act like a jerk on an off moment even if she isn't a jerk in her "normal life") it's also true that you may be jumping to conclusions about why all these other guys (or perhaps girls) seem to be jumping to a jokesters defense.
Personally, I got the impression that the original poster wasn't making an attack on the woman who landed a wonder woman job but poking a little fun at the feminist caricature. Perhaps it was uncalled for...but I didn't see it all that much more uncalled for than when some poster mentions a girlfriend and a half dozen people pipe in with some "humorous" comment about living in a basement or "pics or it didn't happen" or other such at male nerd caricatures. Again, doesn't make it right, but again we can't assume we know why a particular person made such a joke.
I really don't know that I'd agree that one type is so much more common than another, either. Girls that are jerks and use a cliche feminist line while being a jerk aren't exactly scarce where I've lived. Neither are guys who seem to have hygeine issues and make some comment about their mom that make it sound like he lives downstairs from her. We tend not to delve deeper with both of those kinds of people to get at the truth of their lives and understand them and figure out if our assumptions are correct simply because that process is so often an unpleasant one.
now cue the posts about how I misspelled hygiene and point out some superfluous flaw in my reasoning. This is slashdot. Enjoy it for what it is.
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Japan has an entirely separate comics culture for females. That makes a lot more sense than making superhero comics more woman-friendly.
Truth be told, Manga's diversity is just huge, and shows how paltry comic culture is in the west. There are popular comics about baseball, mountain climbing, boxing, surrealism, relationships, historical fiction, art,... it goes on an on. Such things exist here, but they are little paltry niche items. Those things exist in Japan with commercial distribution and real readership levels.
Comiket, or Comic Market is held twice a year, and yet has over half a million attendees!
The center of comics culture is Japan.
Marston's view of women as a lot more complicated than you seem to think. It certainly wasn't a simple case of liking to dominate women (a misconception that says more about the conceiver than it does about him). He actually believed that women were better than men, and wanted men to submit to their loving domination.
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I wouldn't say "scary feminist" as much as "extremist asshole", but I guess we just disagree about the validity of this so called specter.
Yes, I am all for anyone speaking up about whatever they please, as long as they're not an asshole about it. It just so happens that many of the self described "feminists" that _I_ have had to deal with were general assholes, but also assholes about topics with a feminist slant to them. Again, I guess we just see things differently.
I actually don't feel I'm a right wing tool because:
-I'm 30 and I haven't felt compelled to vote yet
-I'm not Caucasian
-I don't make more than $100K a year
-I'm not Christian
-I think Ronald Reagan was a tool himself
-I actually believe women should have the right to choose to have an abortion
-I think there is no valid excuse for women making noticeably less than men in a given field.
I might be a tool (I'll have to think about it), but I'm pretty sure I'm not a right wing tool.
Yes, the more extreme feminists (that I most certainly have met, that you say don't exist are very similar to the Black Panthers. And they are similar in the fact that they don't want "equality". They want "equality++" which we all know is not the same thing.
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Gail Simone is a fantastic writer and a personal hero of mine.
I'm counting on two things in her Wonder Woman run... which actually started a couple of months ago, so this story is kind of late, but anyway...
The same standard of quality storytelling and hilarity she's shown on her previous books, such as Birds of Prey (about ex-Batgirl Barbara Gordon, now super-hacker Oracle, and her various superheroine operatives). So far, we have evil Amazons and talking gorillas, so all is well.
And, as in her previous books, plenty of equal opportunity nudity.
Have you read Birds of Prey?
It's an astounding mix of the superhero procedure with female ethics and interpersonal relationships.
When characters in are in conflict in male-written comics... they resolve it through a nice big punch up.
Gail Simone's characters resolve conflict in a way that is always surprising but also subtly reflects both who each character are, and (more importantly) reflects the nature of their relationship at that point in time - and the resolution of the conflict will change that relationship in the future, so future conflicts are resolved in an intelligently different way.
Jack Nicholson is cool, but he's also vastly immature, which is part of his appeal I guess. Reasonable and accountable are the last things I think of when I think of the man.
Who, me? Are you serious?
Maybe you were talking about this guy, who has since been modded -1 Troll. But that is not me. I entered this conversation with this comment, which has since been modded +5 Insightful, and I really, honestly don't see how it was "crass" or "trash talking".
But maybe I'm wrong. If I've said something crass, can you point it out for me?
That actually sounds more like you right now. Defending those poor feminists from stereotypes, but when I point out your flaw, you attack.
I honestly did not intend for this to be a fight. I meant for you to take a step back and learn something about yourself. Not for me, but because it would make you a more effective person.
Stereotypes all the same. You're far more likely to run across decent, well-meaning, mostly well-adjusted people than you are to run across rapist, murderers, or people living in their parents' basement.
I actually don't know anyone who lives in their parents' basement. Nor do I know of anyone who does. Maybe I'll never meet one?
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In the minority, but still better represented than Latino, Asian, or Aboriginals
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the 'Nazi Socialist PC ball buster' only really exists in the minds of men who are insecure about their own masculinity
Two words(although there are many many many further examples if you want them): Andrea Dworkin
Having shown your claim to be false let me proceed to voice an opinion. To make a statement such as yours requires that the person making it is either honest but exists in a profound state of ignorance or is wilfully promoting an agenda through propaganda.
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The truth is, to an extent that's how some things tend to be in comics. An interesting article on the phenomena is discussed using the character Power Girl.
http://daveslongbox.blogspot.com/2005/09/boob-war-climax-everybody-loves-power.html
Ever notice how every strong female on Heroes is either killed off, raped or suffers an attempted sexual assault? Except the motor mimic girl, but the show went on hiatus mid beatdown.
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The professor wasn't trying to absolve the woman that you held the door for; she was trying to get you to understand what causes such encounters. However, you clearly are looking for others to rubberstamp your perspective on that encounter. That's not a luxury you deserve.
I'm truly impressed that you have been able to quote what this professor said all those many years ago in what I find a very convincing rendering of what she may have said. I'm disappointed, however, that you've not tried to understand it better. Are you aware to what extend women and people of color are subject to microaggressions throughout their lifetime, and what the effects of this may be? (Another good link.)
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Come on, first you're claiming that men die more often then women, then saying, "well, even if there WERE more women dying than men it would be okay because they'd be pandering to the heterosexual men?" Take one claim and stick to it, please. And you can point out exceptions to the rule all you want, but in general: heroism *does* matter. Men don't get stuffed in fridges; they die in combat against a powerful foe. If they get crippled, it only serves to launch a story in which they overcome their debilitation and win the day. Rarely, if ever, are they victims. Women are more often truly "broken" (although this trend is stronger among non-hero females, eg. relatives) What men and women are "supposed" to do has nothing to do with fridge logic.
You went further than stating we're different, you obviously stated we're stronger than women in some way shape or form, otherwise they don't need unique protection by men, especially not in a trivial situation like this one. Do tell me how I set up a strawman.
That is the side you have chosen. Look at this thread, the original troll post, which you have never even acknowledged, is a scathing attack against a woman's accomplishments. After that, it was all about you guys insisting that militant feminist are 'real', and expecting contrition from me for defending (I'll say it again for effect) a poor scarred girl caught up in a moment of fear. We all have fear sometimes, expecting perfect response under such circumstances is silly at best. I said nothing against the woman mentioned in the article, or militant feminism. Stop fucking claiming I did, cause I don't really care about either. I heard about Gail Simone months ago, and I don't read DC comics. I've nothing against women comic book writers in any case, and don't think "feminazis" have any real control over mainstream feminism.Oy vey... dude I understand your pov. However, I also think the rationale is retarted. Notice the part where I stated when I might sympathize? Like I said the only reason to have fear in that senario is if your acting completly irrationally, and again apologizing for insulting someone after an irrational action is polite. I apply this rule on every male and female. You think becuase she might've had some crappy data shoved into her head we should be kinder. I disagree and wonder why you even make such an assumption. While we're at it I'll just assume she was just a man hating bitch, and a world weary senior. Just as vaild no?.
At this point we're starting to talk in circles. Feel free to always assume that women are mentally dainty when they blow up at ya for no apparant reason, and only deserve our sympathy. My mom and closest female friend send their rational non dainty FUs for that notion btw. They have their moments of stupid like we all do, but don't expect men/women to kow tow to irrational rudeness.
So I'm an idiot for calling for understanding. Empathy for others is the most human of characteristics, however some lack it, men more often than women. In the end, I hope that your apparent lack of empathy is a function of internet abstraction and male competition (always wanting to be right), rather than the efforts of a budding psychopath. In this precise situation, yes I lack sympathy. If you've fucking read my posts a bit close I've stated when I might have empathy (same situation only it's dark, etc). But continue to assume I'm a irredemable sociopath, if it make you feel any better.Yup! Well Said.
To help remember, just recall what Carly Fiori.. did to HP.
That ought to shut up the fems for good.
"Doing what i can, with what i have." ~ Burt Gummer
That strikes me as quite an odd statement. As you pointed out yourself, such things depend hugely upon context! In China, in India, in Egypt, in Thailand etc. where white people are just another minority, I should think they do frequently consider that others are treating them differently because of race -- every day, much of the day. And most major cities of Western Europe or North America are ethnically very diverse, so that a city dweller is bound to feel like a bit of an alien at times and in places -- maybe not every day, but pretty often -- regardless of her or his race. Why should white people be any different than anyone else in this regard?
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Nope, I hear it's going to be dungarees with an eagle on the escape hatch.
I have excellent Karma and I am not afraid to Troll it.
And then went on "60 Minutes" to cry about how she had been so unfairly treated......
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
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It's sad, but telling, that this comment could get modded as a troll.
Thanks for pointing that out, but in actuality no I don't believe movie characters are the same as the real people who play them. My opinion of the man is based on observing his inability to form a stable relationship with any of the reputed 9000 women he has been intimate with.
I was aware the GP sort of attributed Nicholson's characters' statement to the actor himself, however I responded in kind so as to enter into the spirit of the discussion rather than nitpick about terms.
Except the motor mimic girl, but the show went on hiatus mid beatdown.
That drove me nuts!
They show her watching Bruce Lee. Show her get a video iPod with all kinds of crazy stuff to study.
Then, she follows the bad guys I'm all like "Yes! Finally we get to see her go all Bruce Lee Kung Fu on those guys!"
Then, ..., nothing. She's kidnapped and held hostage like any stereo-typical female victim character.
I love Heroes, but that is hard to forgive.
-jimbo
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