Perfection: MJ-Gate

[dianakingston]

It exists.

http://www.devildollmedia.com/lj/spideywifeymed.jpg

My take on the MJ scandal? Conflicted. On the one hand, it's a pretty horrid example of female objectification in a medium that's practically overflowing with similar examples, and yes, sometimes I'm so

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[hdefined]

I'm confused as to what this is all referring to.

[dianakingston]

http://devildoll.livejournal.com/750924.html

[dianakingston]

I certainly understand the apathy - as you said, this is only the latest in a long, long line of sexist practices, and lord knows DC is just as guilty - but shrugging our shoulders won't change anything. If pulling the statue sends a message that there are lines not to be crossed, excesses that can't be indulged without consequences, then I say pull the statue; any step in the right direction is preferable to standing in place.

(I do think, though, that the current wave of outrage is only partly motivated by the MJ statue; it's also a manifestation of backlash against everything that's been going on over the last three or four years with regards to women readers and fictional women characters in DC and Marvel - this was just the last straw.)

The zombie wedding's a whole other ball of wax, though.

[skalja]

I actually didn't know about the zombie wedding statue, personally. I did see the variant cover, but I thought it was fairly funny because it was one of at least a dozen or so "zombie homages" makeovers of famous Marvel covers from over the decades for the "Marvel Zombies" mini-series. Were there other zombie statues as well?

[dianakingston]

Most likely, but I tend to let most of the zombie-related frenzy fly by me. That horse has been beaten into glue at this point. :)