Missing the point by a mile - or leagues, rather

[bellatrys]

Or, Did Alan Moore even read Jules Verne?

The theme of this year's International Blog Against Racism is "Intersectionality" which ought to be a snap for me, but as usual I'm behind and disorganized but thanks to shewhohashope and oyceter both posting about steampunk and colonialism, I remembered something which I've been meaning to try to examine in greater detail,

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[evilstorm]

Oh, yeah--what didn't you like about V For Vendetta? Out of curiosity.

[anna_wing]

Me, I did not care for the degradation of all of the significant female characters (including the villainous one).

[evilstorm]

Agreed, Anna Wing. I just found the comic's treatment of women and gay people... well, slightly offensive, seeing how it was supposed to be such a progressive story.

What anna & anon said

[bellatrys]

There was just so much prurience and exploitativeness under the guise of "oh, see, aren't the fascists bad, they exploit women?" but from that male-gaze, enjoying while they condemn it skeeziness. Like that Kyle Payne creep. There's ways to show that a society is sexist and exploitative without revelling in it under the pretext of pointing a condemning finger at it. It got totally distracting from the plot which was already complex enough to follow.)

(Also, the lettering was really hard to read, which didn't help, and the scratchiness of the art contributed to the problem.)

Re: What anna & anon said

[evilstorm]

Hmmm. I've not thought about it like that, but I think I see what you mean. That's very interesting. Huh.