Speaking with your dollar

[earthscorch]

There is a saying about speaking with your dollar, which means if something's good you buy it, if it isn't, you don't. I've heard people being called to speak with their dollars regarding the long-term decline of Marvel and DC. It has occured to me that people have been speaking with their dollars for twenty years, but Marvel and DC just blame it

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[bakaknight]

ahem.

WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO STARFIRE?!

[earthscorch]

Yeah, been hearing a lot of gripes about that. Not a fan of the whole 'sexually liberated' thing, though this is more like a straight up blowup doll. I've been meaning to write a thing on this. Actually I did once, but LiveJournal ate it. I think it was during a denial of service attack. Heh. :) That one was triggered by reading about Sucker Punch. They're all talking about how it's a feminist movie, and I'm thinking, 'So dressing up like a man's sex toy is feminist?' Maybe I'll write it up again later.

[bakaknight]

Oh, I can get how Sucker Punch is a feminist movie. It's a very Victorian-influenced (despite not being set in that era) kind of feminism though.
The audience knows that she doesn't deserve the lobotomy, but she will get it anyway. However, she is her own person, she is not to be defined by the fact that she has boobs, or that she is now lobotomised. The Men around the women do not define them; they define themselves.

[earthscorch]

Dressing all fetishy, though, they're selling their bodies. They're putting their attractiveness to men as their defining trait. It doesn't matter if they are being assertive, they are implying that their worth is only relative to how men treat them. I haven't seen the movie, though, so I can only make guesses by looking at pictures and from what I've read.

[bakaknight]

Starfire, however, has been essentially lobotomised, and is attempting to define herself by the people she sleeps with, while remembering none of the people she's slept with before, none of her friends, and having no emotional attachment to anything (which, for a person whose home planet is apparently ALL ABOUT THE LOVE IN ALL FORMS, for her to go 'love has nothing to do [with having sex] is fairly damn WHOA).

[earthscorch]

And let's not forget the douchebags who are supposedly her friends that are taking advantage of her.