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[brightcupenny]

Via clubjade.net, condescending jackass tells women we don't need more female superheroes because we'd rather watch Julia Roberts instead. I had a hard time deciding what to quote here, because it's all so horrifying, but this part is particularly relevant for us costumers:
Of course some women actually are interested in superheroes, just as there

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[nmissi]

Hey, if I was a booth owner, I'd cheerfully pay a few guys to stand around dressed like Wolvie- if I could find enough Jackman lookalikes.

I am a girly girl. I wear dresses and paint my nails, I collect dishes and Barbie dolls. And I went to see "Batman Returns" five times to watch Michelle Pfeiffer kick ass and meow. I taped "Birds of Prey" off television, and would gladly pony up for a Huntress movie. The only thing that salvaged "Batman and Robin" was the presence of a tolerable Batgirl and the creepiness of Poison Ivy. I own all the Xmen, Spiderman, and Superman movies (even the dreadful Superman 4) and I even sat thru that piece of shit "Elektra" because, hey, I like the character in the books. The best movie I saw last year was Ironman.

I have never watched an episode of SITC but I have seven gig of Buffy eps on my hard drive. And I'm pretty sure my gender is not in doubt. Girls LIKE Heroic male characters, and females as well. The entire romance novel industry is predicated on the first, and a goodly portion of the fantasy industry is predicated on the second. The writer of that article is either deluded or full of crap.