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[faded_lilac]

A few days ago my mother called me while bored between work and band practice to say she'd stopped at a McDonald's. As someone with Opinions, I took that opportunity to rant at her about how they had Young Justice toys but were only putting out the male characters, because they're supposed to be the "boy's Happy Meal" and disregarding how atrocious

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Next time I am on the phone with my mother, to avoid any conversations about creepin' or the manifold horrors the world has presented, I will simply read this aloud, and she will be deeply pleased.

So, in way, you have fixed our mother-daughter relationship? /OVERSHARE

have you seen the Power Lad et al photos from some con lately? Relevant to your interests!

(also, I am about to go over to the library to get New Lesbian Criticism: Literary and Cultural Readings and maybe then make a Canadian Suicide Double Feature playlist. SEE THIS IS ABOUT YOUUUUU.)

ps it's purple and pink.

[faded_lilac]

THAT IS ME, bringing people together! ha yes totally. Likewise, my mother is absolutely DELIGHTED that I spent my Friday evening looking up maps.

I have not seen any Power Lad photos, and in fact do not know who that is? Anyway I'm sure they are lovely!

FORGOT TO ASK ABOUT THE CSDF PLAYLIST you should probs tell me about it!

I looked again and it is not purple and pink! Def def def red and blue, which MAKES SENSE so I am right here.

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Hooray in general.

POWERLAD ET AL I was looking at Power Girl's Wikipedua page, and at some point one writer implied that it was just because she (Power Girl) did not yet have an iconic logo for her front that she has that...distinctive neckline. This is not related, okay. (there are also other pictures there.)

It is mostly just sad songs by Gord Downie, honestly. That and your fave and mine, "Every Little Star." Because, whoa, drama! Dying at the end of that is almost like Joe Dick's death, in unexpectedness, or something.

It totally is, really. I think the fact that it does not make sense is a much stronger claim.

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AHHH how had I not seen that? I am so disappointed in the tumblrs I follow now. Plastic Woman looks super hot, but the rest of them are pretty great as well. Also that reasoning for her neckline is patently ridiculous; she has it because people like looking at her chest.

"Every Little Star" will never have any relation to that movie, except in the strange recesses of your mind. But yeah, it seems like it would be a totally depressing mix.

LOGIC WILL OUT. (I wanted to add the Thanks Hal icon for this, but lj is not actually loading.)

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That does piss me off. The gendered Happy Meals.
Girls play with action heroes! Action Heroes can be girls!

(You do need both tags. Obvs.)

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Alternatively, boys can play with those little Barbies or whatever they give out in the "girl" meals these days!

(One of life's little necessities: variation in one's Miley-related tags.)

[sunlara]

I overheard two kids conversing the other day.

James - No no no Emily, you can't play with that! Spiderman is a boys's toy!
Mehtab - No! There are no boygirl toys!

(James brings in all the superhero toys and has a real problem with sharing. Mehtab is an awesome little boy who sticks up for everyone. I was so proud of him!)

I also was happy a few weeks ago when this conversation happened:
Daytora (a girl) - Nicholas, you can't be in our tea party! Only girls play in a tea party.
Nicholas (an awesome boy from the older fours' class) - But, I like it. Why shouldn't I play it?
Daytora - Oh. Um. Alright you can play with us.

(Not quite as awesome as the first conversation, but still a step in the right direction.)

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Aww, this is great! I mean, not the one who is bad at sharing, but everything else. Children being ~our future~ and whatnot.

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ILU.

Semi-relatedly, I am a little :/ about female representation in BBatB. 1) So few females in general, and 2) Black Canary, when she wants to talk about the way the Justice Society treats her, as opposed to how they treat Batman, is told that it's because they don't want her to get hurt. What.

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Definitely! Admittedly there are a lot of episodes I haven't seen, and that includes the one where the Birds of Prey show up. And looking it up, it does seem that Batgirl and Batwoman have both appeared as well. But, at least in clips and whatnot, it seems that they tend to get the same treatment as Black Canary: they're very much The Girl. Like, I would never in a million years complain about the Jaime team-ups, and I love BatB!Aquaman to death, and I even enjoy when Plastic Man is around. But it makes me sad that we got a Gorilla Grodd episode before a single woman showed up, that being Huntress in episode sixteen. Even after that, the few times that women are around they tend to be in the teasers rather than the main plotline.

This is basically the least informed and most nonsensical comment one could possibly write on the topic! /o\ But in essence: yes, I concur that there is a problem.

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Yeah, I want to know why most of the ladies are only in the cold opens. They're awesome, but it's only like five minutes of awesome. I stopped watching at the Justice Society episode because I thought they were finally going to acknowledge that they were wrong to coddle BC the way they were, but they didn't. I'll pick it up eventually for Aquaman and Jaime and for Catwoman/Batman, even though they switched out Helena as their offspring for Damian (which, uh, he's half Middle-Eastern in the comics, so :/ again), but it's disheartening.

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The USA still has gendered Happy Meals? LOL WHUT?!

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I KNOW. It's nice to find out that they don't do it elsewhere anymore, though?

[serpentpixie]

Well I work at a McDonald's in the UK and we don't do that! I'm not sure you'd get away with that here, actually ^^