When Comic Love Goes From Whoa! to Woe

Here's a great article on why so many people are having issues with certain DCnU's books - A Response from a Female Comic Book Fan

This, especially, kind of hits the nail on the head for me - I’m a grown woman. I have sex. I have no problem with sex. I have no time for “slut shaming,” and I certainly don’t care who other women sleep with. It’s my personal choice an adult woman who I sleep with, and it’s every other adult woman’s personal choice as well. Not my business, and not anyone else’s either.

But what a lot of the commenters on Red Hood and the Outlaws seem to be forgetting is that Starfire is not a real person who made the choice to have lots of anonymous sex on her own. She is not a “sexually liberated woman.” She’s a character, who was written by a person – specifically, a man. Starfire’s preening in a bikini and talking about how she wants to have sex with people whose names she won’t even remember is not about celebrating the sexually-liberated woman of the Twenty-First Century, throwing off the shackles of male oppression. It’s about giving men the chance to fantasize about having a hot chick with big boobs want to do them without any consequences.

Ding, ding, ding. Thank you.

I haven't really weighed on the whole DCnU thing because I decided I was going to wait until the books were out, but, after last week's whole debacle over Catwoman and Red Hood and the Outlaws (not to mention the thin-ification of Amanda Waller and the girlfriend-ification of Power Girl), I've made up my mind.


( In which I discuss my fangirl origins and lament on the sudden emptiness of my pull box )

Some other really good links along the same vein of the above article:

A 7-year-old girl responds to DC Comics’ sexed-up reboot of Starfire

Shortpacked does the math for DC


And now here are a couple links of awesomeness:

Women Fighters in Reasonable Armor

Fuck Yeah Warrior Women