Paper Faces on Parade
Fandom! I seek thoughts from your collective wisdom. Allow me to lay out the points for you. Then, I entreat you, discuss. Well aware that the world is far more diverse than my Friends list is, I am leaving this entry public rather than F-locked in the hope of inviting deeper discussion. I am trusting friends and others alike to be evolved, constructive, and respectful herein.
I love Ms. Marvel, a.k.a. Kamala Khan. She is among my favorites of current superheroes, particularly among the small subset of superheroes who are a)female, b)in the Marvel universe, and c)main characters with their own individual stories/series. In terms of both her personality and her having a somewhat more common body type, I relate better to her as a person than I have to most other superheroes, period.
In a couple months, I'm going to be meeting and getting pictures with several people from Marvel Studios' films. Thus far when going to cons, aside from one time when I wore a very slightly steampunkish outfit, I have stuck with wearing a fannish/geeky shirt with jeans or comparable bottoms. This time, though, for at least one of the two days that I'll be at the con, I'd really like to wear a costume.
I figure that it makes sense to aim for Marvelousness. I do not have the figure or at least the confidence to be at all comfortable in most of their female superheroes' costumes. Also, I have an awkward Keloid scar high on my chest that I do not like exposing. If I could find and afford a good Agent Carter costume, that could be awesome . . . but only for another event; I plan on getting a picture with Hayley Atwell and cannot fathom even remotely attempting to be Peggy with Peggy. And I don't want to emulate one of the male superheroes because I have Issues with feeling like I look more butch and less feminine than I feel/want to look all the time, which I expect doing drag would exacerbate and suck out fun from the con experience, and trying to feminize one of the male costumes in such a way as would not inflame that internal conflict yet would also suit my body type, not bare my scar, and not instead make me feel like a shitty feminist strikes me as well-nigh impossible.
Ms. Marvel's costume would be an awesome option on pretty much all fronts, and I could buy/get put together a version of it relatively easily and in time.
I am an agnostic, white U.S.-ian. Kamala is a Muslim, Pakistani-U.S.-ian.
Would my dressing up as Kamala be cool, offensive, or somewhere in between? I don't want to sour anyone else's con experience (well, unless the person disliked the character out of ignorance or bias, in which case the sourness would be the other person's own fault).
I love Ms. Marvel, a.k.a. Kamala Khan. She is among my favorites of current superheroes, particularly among the small subset of superheroes who are a)female, b)in the Marvel universe, and c)main characters with their own individual stories/series. In terms of both her personality and her having a somewhat more common body type, I relate better to her as a person than I have to most other superheroes, period.
In a couple months, I'm going to be meeting and getting pictures with several people from Marvel Studios' films. Thus far when going to cons, aside from one time when I wore a very slightly steampunkish outfit, I have stuck with wearing a fannish/geeky shirt with jeans or comparable bottoms. This time, though, for at least one of the two days that I'll be at the con, I'd really like to wear a costume.
I figure that it makes sense to aim for Marvelousness. I do not have the figure or at least the confidence to be at all comfortable in most of their female superheroes' costumes. Also, I have an awkward Keloid scar high on my chest that I do not like exposing. If I could find and afford a good Agent Carter costume, that could be awesome . . . but only for another event; I plan on getting a picture with Hayley Atwell and cannot fathom even remotely attempting to be Peggy with Peggy. And I don't want to emulate one of the male superheroes because I have Issues with feeling like I look more butch and less feminine than I feel/want to look all the time, which I expect doing drag would exacerbate and suck out fun from the con experience, and trying to feminize one of the male costumes in such a way as would not inflame that internal conflict yet would also suit my body type, not bare my scar, and not instead make me feel like a shitty feminist strikes me as well-nigh impossible.
Ms. Marvel's costume would be an awesome option on pretty much all fronts, and I could buy/get put together a version of it relatively easily and in time.
I am an agnostic, white U.S.-ian. Kamala is a Muslim, Pakistani-U.S.-ian.
Would my dressing up as Kamala be cool, offensive, or somewhere in between? I don't want to sour anyone else's con experience (well, unless the person disliked the character out of ignorance or bias, in which case the sourness would be the other person's own fault).