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Source: sarahseeandersenI'm just a girl who likes geeky stuff
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We [Fraction and his wife, Kelly Sue DeConnick] were pregnant at the time, and while I was out there I started to realize that if I had a daughter, there would come a day when I would have to apologize to her for my profession. I would have to apologize for the way it treats and speaks to women readers, and the way it treats its female characters.
I knew that if we had a daughter, because I know my wife and I know the kind of girl she wants to raise and I know the kind of girl I want to raise, she was going to look at what I did for a living and want to know how the fuck I could stomach it. How could I sell her out like that?” Fraction continued. “That conversation is still coming, and I’m bracing for it in the way that some dads brace for their daughter’s first date or boyfriend. I became acutely aware that I had sort of done that thing that lots of privileged hetero cisgendered white dudes do. ‘I’m cool with women, and that’s enough.’ It’s not enough. It’s embarrassing to say, because we somehow have attached shame to learning and evolving our opinions, culturally, but I became aware that there was a deficiency of and to women in my work, and all I could do at that moment was take care of my side of the street.
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Writer Matt Fraction on his role on expanding the profile of female characters in the Marvel Universe. (via goodmanw)
Damn, Matt. Got all sniffly up in here.
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20 hours ago
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"Women read comics. Anyone at all engaged in social media knows this. Women read comics and are a driving force behind fandom. I think I could call them the driving force behind fandom and put up a convincing argument. Just think about it: what fandoms have driven America crazy in the last decade? Could anyone dissuade me from saying that they were Harry Potter, Twilight and the Hunger Games? “Avatar” may have put butts in theater seats, but you don’t hear about it… ever. No one is immersed in the world of “Avatar” except James Cameron and people who enjoy wearing Na’vi Zentai suits. “The Avengers” was pretty darn huge and, if Tumblr is any indication, a whopping portion of the people driving that fandom online do not possess a Y chromosome. Women engage in fandom to levels that men do not. When women get behind something, their sheer numbers and passion force it into the mainstream. That’s why you can name the actor who plays that werewolf kid in “Twilight” and probably sing at least the chorus to one Justin Bieber song. What do tween boys like? I have no clue. Sports? Probably sports."
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Brett White, Comic Book Resources (via wandrinparakeet)
and yet men remain the most marketed demographic for just about everything.
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I’m pretty sure the only men who spend more time thinking about DC than women on Tumblr are the men who actually work there.
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people still act fucking surprised when women show up for genre shit
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Holy shit—seeing a quote with over 14,000 notes from one of your oldest friends is… amazing. Tumblr! Women. Nerd stuff? Brett White!
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LISTEN TO BRETT WHITE
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1 day ago
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"Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive. Ambition is only understood if it’s to rise to the top of some imaginary ladder of success. Someone who takes an undemanding job because it affords him the time to pursue other interests and activities is considered a flake. A person who abandons a career in order to stay home and raise children is considered not to be living up to his potential-as if a job title and salary are the sole measure of human worth. You’ll be told in a hundred ways, some subtle and some not, to keep climbing, and never be satisfied with where you are, who you are, and what you’re doing. There are a million ways to sell yourself out, and I guarantee you’ll hear about them."
- Bill Watterson (via mikekarnell)
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1 day ago
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I got Marvel Unlimited not long ago. For the most part I like it a lot. Thousands of comics right at my fingertips? Pretty awesome. That being said, their search function is pretty terrible, I can’t figure out if there’s some kind of automatic reading history so I keep having to go back and search for the series I had been reading the day before unless I add each individual book to my library, and there are this black boxes that pop up all over the place. Bah, hats off to Marvel for doing this, but I hope there are some updates coming…
Is anyone else using this? Have I just not poked around enough to really figure out how to navigate the site?
1 day ago
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Stephen Colbert salutes UVA’s Class of 2013 Followed by this.
FUCKING THANK YOU.
hero status
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Source: beeishappy2 days ago
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Source: sinesofinsanitySinfest 2013-05-16:Problematic
This is how I feel about most of the movies/tv shows/comics I love.
Also accurate.
Tatsuya Ishida speaks to my soul.
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5 days ago
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"You mean the generation that paid three times as much for college to enter a job market with triple the unemployment isn’t interested in purchasing the assets of the generation who just blew an enormous housing bubble and kept it from popping through quantitative easing and out-and-out federal support? Curious."
- When comments are better than the article, Atlantic edition (“The Cheapest Generation: Why Millennials arent’ buying cars or houses, and what that means for the economy”)
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Development sketches and the final label for Heroine Chardonnay 2011, by Iconic Wine.
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Source: mingdoyle5 days ago
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I lost it when he called Pam his best friend.
It was raining all over my face during this episode.
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Source: rooneymara6 days ago
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Source: queen-m4rcelineHow I feel waking up every morning
HOW I FEEL WAKING UP EVERY MORNING.
~ it must be Thor’s day~
~I could never get the hang of Thor’s day~
