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I have yet to bring this to my (very limited) El-jay audience but here are a few of my favorite articles about how the DC reboot has not done anything to improve (taken a bajillion steps backwards?) how women are represented in comics:
Sexualization of females in new 52 reboot:
http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/09/22/starfire-catwoman-sex-superheroine/#ixzz1YjvuBl8I
On Amanda Waller (who was one of my personal favorite DC BAD ASSES!):
http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/09/14/amanda-waller-skinny-thin-reboot/#ixzz1XzbXNMn8
http://dcwomenkickingass.tumblr.com/post/10252900677/awuique
Sam Kieth's (writer/artist of many awesome comics, among them, The Maxx) blog post:
http://samkieth.blogspot.com/2011/09/taboos-of-body-fat-in-comics.html
The Loss of Oracle:
http://www.newsarama.com/comics/why-they-endured-oracle-110907.html
(NOTE: Barbara Gordon was Oracle for 22 years and Batgirl for only 21)
THESE are the reasons I am not running out to buy the new titles. Although, I would read Batgirl because Gail "I am a freaking amazing writer" Simone of Women in Refrigerators fame (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_Refrigerators) is writing it...but I remain conflicted.
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