Dammit, I forgot a title again

[cleolinda]

Did I mention that I just realized yesterday that the Golden Globes are this weekend? I mean, not that that's a huge problem, but I hadn't started strength-training mentally preparing myself for the liveblogging. (The goal, by the way, is to have something you can actually read a week later and have any clue what I was talking about.) They didn't

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[sabra_n]

Women, You Don't Care About Superheroes

HAHAHAHA. Oh lordy. Don't you just love it when men tell women what's inside their own heads? With just a few words from this wisest of males, all of comics girlfandom is invalidated! Because we all played with dolls and not action figures when we were little, dontcha know.

(Shit, where have my eyes rolled to?!)

[sabra_n]

To be fair, I didn't play with dolls or action figures, though I did covet a Leonardo the Ninja Turtle for a while. I was a Legos, Tinker Toys, and Creepy Crawlers type.

[girlthethird]

I played with dolls. I had a huge collection of Barbies when I was a kid. I'm a very, very girly girl, with more shoes than sense who used to spend my childhood weekends practising dance moves and playing with my sisters' clothes and make up... after my Saturday morning X-Men and Batman cartoons finished. Oh, and those barbies were all married off to Transformers and Ninja Turtles figures. Which were also all my own treasured toys. And when I grew up, I wanted to be Indiana Jones. Not be WITH him, BE him.

Why must a woman have to either be a girly girl and not be interested in the manly activities that men do or be a total tomboy who must disown their femininity in order to justify their likes and is thus labelled a lesbian? We can be and often are both!

Mothers, teach your daughters that they can kickass even in a frilly pink ball gown!

(Sorry, this isn't directed at you, it just frustrates me that women still can't just be accepted for who they are and must be boxed into types.)

[wendyzski]

I was at an SF convention a few years ago, and they had a sort of robot-wars competition. When I wandered in, the current leader was an 11-year-old girl wearing a pretty blue princess dress.

Just thinking about it still makes me happy inside. "I'm a pretty pretty princess and I'll STILL kick your ass!

[girlthethird]

...I think that little girl might be my hero.

[wendyzski]

i KNOW she's mine!

[trampchic]

Your little girl is AWESOME.

((It also reminds me of the little girl who the author of "Feminism in Contemporary Art" dedicated her book to. Apparently this little girl went to a Catholic kindergarten where they had seperate entrances for boys and girls, and one day a boy told the girl, while they were on the playground that she couldn't play on the side she was on, because it was the boys' side. To which the girl replied: "This is the PLAYGROUND. There is no boys' and girls' side on the playground." ))

[wendyzski]

She's not my kid - I wish I had one that awesome though!

I played on the boy's soccer team in grade school, because the boys team got to play other schools while the girls just got to play each other. I was also a cheerleader in junior high.

[sabra_n]

It goes both ways. Men should be allowed to kick ass in pretty dresses if they want to, too, but we're even farther from that point. Pathetic.

[girlthethird]

That is an excellent point. Let me rephrase: "It just frustrates me that PEOPLE still can't just be accepted for who they are and must be boxed into types." Because men can and do love so-called "girly" things as well.

[elvensapphire]

I completely agree!!! I am the girliest girly-girl I know, and have been since I was little. I love frills and jewelry and makeup and dolls and all those classic, girly things. But I also love superheroes and Jedi and epic swordfighting and really kickass fight sequences. Girls can always be both, and that's one of the most awesome things about us. We get the best of both worlds - able to wear the pink ball gowns AND tote the big guns. Anyone, in the day and age, who thinks otherwise is an utter fool.

And I'm not saying men can't have both, too, just to clarify. It's simply that it's shoved in the face of womanhood more often. No frilly girl can possibly like tomboyish things, and no tomboy girl can possibly want frills. Both are myths.

[laughingacademy]

And when guys like this ask, "How come we never meet these cool girls who like comics?" the answer is, Because we're bright enough to steer clear of assholes like you.

[inane_notions]

Huh. I guess I'm misremembering how I only played with my few Barbies when my brother was with me, and how the rest of the time it was Batman and the Backstreet Boys teaming up to fight the Joker! And I think Gabumon was involved in all this as well.