Reset the reset the Days Since DC Did Something Stupid counter back to zero

[james_davis_nicoll]

Who could have foreseen this would be problematic?

Comments

[azurelunatic]

*headdesk*

[rosefox]

Don't forget this gem:

[ms-geekette.livejournal.com]

Oh, how quickly Supergirl is forgotten. I haven't seen the movie in ages and I imagine it has not aged well at all (if it was even good when it was released), but if you wanted to use the logo, well, there's one easy option there.

Unfortunately Marvel is about as bad. Although I'm not sure if they even bother to *make* much merch that might be construed to be for females. I've seen a sad Gamora makeup set and some cheesy cheap-looking clothing for women with Captain America logos plastered all over it (an improvement, but Black Widow/Gamora/Mystique/etc. options would be much better). Also, people have told me about short-boxing/packing female figurines, so yay! (not yay)

SIGH.

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

Also:

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Supergirl Smash! (don't seem to have a She-Hulk icon which would have been my first choice)

[graydon saunders (from livejournal.com)]

I've been thinking for awhile now that the obvious reason there's been no Black Widow movie is that Scarlett won't sleep with Kevin Feige. It's just the sort of delusions-of-ownership thing Feige would think it reasonable to insist on, plus he's probably now all butt-hurt by Scarlett having a life and preferences of her very own.

Things are indeed worse; it's bad insecurity management to start with, the amount of insecurity around masculinity is going up -- the patriarchy is obviously a bad idea in an information economy, the value of "manly" being sold has collapsed to "violent entitled idiot" (of a time, "husbandry" and "generosity" and "self-rule" were masculine virtues) -- and the people making money decisions around the comic-book franchises can't possibly be in favour of justice because their own just fates are harsh.

[solarbird]

Can we just, I don't know, unplug that counter until we actually need it?

[w. dow rieder (from livejournal.com)]

My reaction to the constant stream of these sort of things was finally to sit down and start doing my best to write superhero stories with characters that would be admired regardless of gender, and girls would actually want to be. It doesn't help the merchandizing fails, but it's what I can do.

It's amazing how powerful a motivation "That's awful. I can do better, and will" is. Even if you don't succeed, the practice helps.

[awesomeaud.livejournal.com]

" ....but I expected better of Target...”

She did? What ever gave her that idea?