Dredd: A Brilliant Portrayal of Women in Comics

[thalestral]

An article of mine that I wrote for my own site with little intention has whipped up a storm of attention via twitter, and been reposted at the New Statesman, a national UK magazine that I've written for before in the past. The subject? The portrayal of women in a recent film

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[pleasure_past]

Should we take this same genderless approach in say;

Health care - Alright! So this means that men will stop telling women that we're imaging our heart attacks, that it's immoral for us to remove an unwanted parasite from our bodies, that we either owe our bodies to our children or that we must refuse our children the best source of nourishment unless we want to be labeled perverts, that our weight is the cause of every health problem we have ever, that our health care is and should be more costly because our gender is a per-existing condition, and so much more, right? I'm down.

Family law - I'll take a step further. Let's have gender-neutral families. So let's create a world in which women don't stay home to raise the children vastly disproportionately to their male partners, where women aren't expected to do the vast majority of the chores even when they're working just as much as if not more than their male partners, where daughters are given the same inherent value as sons, where women are stereotyped as nurturers and forced to fulfill that role whether they want to or not, and perhaps one where women aren't vastly disproportionately the victims of spousal rape and abuse. I'd love that.

Social housing - You think to small, my first commenter friend. Let's have a gender-neutral society, where homeless women aren't disproportionately likely to be forced into and/or trapped in sex work, raped, abused, and killed. Also, perhaps one in which women in need of social housing aren't disproportionately likely to be fleeing from the aforementioned rape and abuse. That's an idea I can get behind.

Business grants - Let's make it bigger! Gender-neutral business! Women should receive equal pay for equal work, and be just as likely as men to get promoted. Since being a father rarely negatively affects men, being a mother should be no problem for businesswomen. Women shouldn't be judged any more harshly than men are on their appearance, and women should not be far more likely to be sexually harassed at work. That would be true gender-neutral.

Criminal law - Oh! This would be wonderful! I would love a world in which most rapists and spoucal abusers didn't walk free for reasons that basically boil down to "Most of them are men, and most of their victims are ~just women~."

Prisoner funding - Prisons! You are on the right track, my angry male friend. We must make prisons as a whole "gender-neutral" in terms of experience, so that women are not regularly sexually by male guards.

Social care - Yes! Care should be provided according to need, and since women often need these services more often than men, women should receive them more often than men! Perfect!

Workplace law - Yup. We should probably have 50% female quotas for all top-level jobs. It's the only way to create a society where women are truly equal to men in the workplace, and thus we can have a gender-neutral workplace.

[pleasure_past]

Should we, say, reduce funding for female only cancer research, and channel it to try and reduce the disproportionate male deaths from cancer. This funding doesn't come out of thin air, though. Like, breast cancer gets more funding because people disproportionately donate to breast cancer. If you want another type of cancer to get more funding, start a movement for it and get people to donate.

You know, now that the important comic book imbalance has been sorted. Ha. Oh, I wish. I'm not even a fan of comic books, and I really wish this were true.

I'm sure the ignored homless and suicidal men in the UK will be taking comfort from the reporting of this important issue. Women are significantly more likely to be suicidal. And, frankly, I hear absolutely jack-shit about that fact outside of feminist discussions. It's usually about the menz and how suicidal they are.

Ugh. Fucking MRAs. They must all know on some level that sexism against women still exists and is still prevalent, because virtually everything that site as sexism against men either is sexism or is a half-asses attempt by the government to "fix" sexism. Virtually EVERYTHING. But they don't give a shit. Because the hallmark of a true MRA is not giving the slightest fuck about anyone other than yourself or any group but the ones you belong to.

[thalestral]

What is this logic?!

I agree that on some level they must know but they somehow manage to turn everything into how much worse it is for men. It'd be impressive if it wasn't so gross :/