The new Thor is pretty awesome.
The new Thor is pretty awesome.
“Female comics professionals and comics fans are frequent targets for online harassment, especially…”
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Female comics professionals and comics fans are frequent targets for online harassment, especially if they comment on feminist issues.
The harassment doesn’t always stay on the Internet. Asselin’s bank accounts were compromised after her article was published online, and independent comics editor Caitlin Rosberg says, “some people have had stuff mailed to their homes as a threat of ‘I know where you live.’ “
Marvel’s Jeanine Schaefer believes this behavior is partly driven by extreme fear on the part of some comics fans.
“There’s this perception that, ‘Well, if we let women in, then everything is going to change. They’re going to take away everything that I like about comics,’” Schaefer says.
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– Where’s Thor When You Need Her? Women In Comics Fight An Uphill Battle.
This Licensed T-Shirt Tells You a Lot About How DC Comics Views Wonder Woman
Warner Bros. makes a lot of money each year licensing the rights to the superhero IP of DC Comics. And that includes literally hundreds of t-shirts. We know that licensing can be pretty strict. It took a public shaming for them to allow the Superman logo to be used on a statue of a young fan who had been starved to death.
So it’s always interesting to see what DOES get signed off on. Like this shirt.
“The essence of confidence is the ability to handle critiques and the existence of challengers with…”
“”The essence of confidence is the ability to handle critiques and the existence of challengers with grace and security in your own position. If what deBoer is describing is a permanent state, though, then a certain subset of angry geeks will prove themselves to be exactly what the once-dominant culture said they were all along: myopic and insecure. The hysterical reactions to criticism and challenge do far more damage to the proposition that geek culture contains rich forms, stories and communities worth taking seriously than any critic ever could.””
