Sarah, this is.
Loves: super heroes, science fiction, cartoons, cats, blogging, bike riding, & sunny skies.
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It’s a travesty it took so long for this movie to happen. WTF studios!? How did this movie not sound like a bankable project? Ooh, all black cast, nope, nope, nope can’t have that. Ugh…sometimes the world is retarded.
[Below is a short editorial of sorts I tacked on to the end of the article, Watch Two Previews For Kevin Smith’s Upcoming Reality Show, ‘Comic Book Men’ for Nerd Bastards. I’ve included it here because I’m sure it’s relevant to many of you. It is to me, hence why I wrote it.]
I’m really excited for this show and I hope it opens up the “mysterious” world of comic book shops to the unknowing public. I just have one teeny, weeny, itsy, bitsy problem. Did it really need to be titled Comic Book MEN?
First off, I think this is a dumb name no matter what gender it references. I understand Secret Stash could have been misleading, and this new title is very clear, but I still find it dumb. Then again, I’d find just about any reality show name dumb, but even Comic Book Fans, or The Comic Shop or something along those lines would sound better.
Secondly, calling it Comic Book Men makes me feel not welcomed. I love comic books and I frequent a fantastic local shop where I’ve never felt excluded or like a freak of nature for having boobs. To clarify, having boobs and reading the comics as opposed to posing on their covers. This comic shop also has a fairly diverse staff, gender-wise. For people a little weirded about comic shops this is where I send them, because it’s clean, organized, helpful and very welcoming. Comic book stores are in a bit of trouble if you didn’t know, they want your business, not matter who you are. So why would they choose a title that seems to say, “We’re a show for the boys, by the boys”? Why exclude female fans? What I’m afraid will happen is the title and the way they’re promoting the show might turn off other female comic books fans or maybe, women who don’t even know they’re comic book fans yet because they’ve not had the same wonderful experience at a local shop like I have.
Thirdly, it turns out they did audition women for the show and even went so far as to basically cast one until someone decided the show was to go in a different direction. I’m guessing a direction with no women because that’s the only difference I can tell. Turns out the woman was well known geek girl, Zoë A. Gulliksen. She blogged about her experience recently, which is how I became aware of her involvement. She even links to a portion of one of Smith’s podcasts where he talks about how “perfect” she was. But, I guess not perfect enough for this season.
I’m not going to vilify Kevin Smith. I adore him and I don’t think he set out to make a show about comic books where women are not welcomed. Unfortunately, it seems like that’s what happened. I know plenty of people will think I’m freakin’ out over the title for really no reason (and it’s not just me, Jill Pantozzi, who also auditioned for the show, wrote about her disappointment of the show’s new direction over on Newsarama). But after this passed year, which was freakin’ RIPE with controversy over the portrayal of women in comics, the lack of women creators being hired by the big companies and especially after those kerfuffles at conventions between comic book companies and their female fans (I’m lookin’ at you DC Comics at SDDC), you’d think someone would have seen Comic Book Men as a possibly controversial title.
All right, I’ve aired my grievances. I’ll still tune in after The Walking Dead, and I’m sure I’ll love what I see. Why? Because I love comics, and I love people who are fans and enjoy talking about them as much as me. I just would have liked to see someone like me invited to the party.
Here’s my problem with this. What about trying to get 15-year-old girls excited about the Xbox itself, not only their new motion system. I own a Kinect, it’s pretty sweet but it hasn’t built up the kind of game collection that will keep me playing. But guess what? I owned an Xbox first and I bought it so I could pay Left 4 Dead. I’m tired of this shit that girls aren’t serious about video games. They only want dance or fitness games. It’s generalizing bullshit and I’m sick of it.
/Rant
Besides, PS3 is better.
Previous comments:
kennthium said: can I get a nebula behind this
cowl said: but i’m not excited for that shit.
I got a ps3 to play Heavy Rain, fuck your kinect
LOL thats what people who don’t have a KINECT say. If you had one you would know it’s fucking awesome.
(via dcnuandu)
Since my last few posts were very Star Wars in their content I feel this picture is only appropriate. I can totally sympathize with this Stormtrooper. Let me list the awesomely awesome things that have happened to me over the last three days:
1. I find out from my realty company that they have leased our apartment to someone else for next year. We apparently did not renew in time even though I was not given a date for renewel. And they obviously did not give the 24 hour notice call I was supposed to recieve to alert me that someone was interested in my apartment. So, come Aug 15th I’m w/out an apartment. I hate moving. I hate packing. I hate having to apartment search when I was content to stay where I was for at least another year!
2. My computer is dead. I’m currently at work making this angry post. My overheating computer finally fried my motherboard and it no longer boots. This is a defect of my series of notebooks as many upon many consumers have noted here, here, and here. HP still has not decided to do a recall. Meaning that if I wanted them to fix my out of warrenty brick of a computer I would need to pay $600.
3. This seems less of big deal compared to the others, but when I was leaving to come to work this morning I found my bike to have a flat tire. I tried to pump it up but to no avail, still flat. I’m hoping that the tire isn’t a lost cause since I had come to rely on my bike a lot for transportation.
So there has been my fabulous three days. A new problem every day. Thank you for reading my rant. And to the sad Stormtooper pictured above, I feel ya.
What the heck Tumblr? I’ve posted three times today and my Tumblarity drops 5 points! Really? This thing is stupid.
This is so my post isn’t only a silly rant.
Ha!
