tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6940841.post114281387845700907..comments2024-02-02T07:41:55.155-05:00Comments on The Headpiece for the Staff of Ra: Women In RefrigeratorsMosBenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14396378353702882073noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6940841.post-1142871326816858892006-03-20T11:15:00.000-05:002006-03-20T11:15:00.000-05:00Doesn't notice a connection between the paralyzati...Doesn't notice a connection between the paralyzation and her gender? Directly following being shot, which leaves her paralyzed, Barabara Gordon is stripped naked by the Joker while he takes pictures of her naked, bloody body. I'm pretty sure there was something to do with gender going on there. Given that it's Alan Moore,however, and he writes female characters rather well (in my off hand remembering), I'm more willing accept The Killing Joke more or less uncritically, as opposed to several of the events listed on the site which were seemingly done unconciously or, even worse, with intentional sexism.MosBenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14396378353702882073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6940841.post-1142816834368374842006-03-19T20:07:00.000-05:002006-03-19T20:07:00.000-05:00This was something that really bothered me about S...This was something that really bothered me about <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0812695739/sr=8-1/qid=1142815985/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-3030896-6102523?%5Fencoding=UTF8" REL="nofollow">Superheroes in philosophy</A>. If you take a look at the Table of Contents, you'll notice there's only two essay out of nineteen that deals with female characters. One talks, bizarrely, about what great models of feminine strength Storm and Jean Grey (sp) are in <I>X2</I>, and the other doesn't seem to notice any relationship between Barbara Gordon's paralyzation and her gender. <BR/><BR/>By contrast, about a quarter of the pieces in <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0812695313/qid=1142816330/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/102-3030896-6102523?s=books&v=glance&n=283155" REL="nofollow">Buffy and Philosophy</A> work from a feminist perspective. This is probably simply due to the fan base for comics vs. the fan base for Buffy -- which is a shame. Like science fiction, too much of the mainstream comic industry is run by men with the emotional maturity and egalitarian values of twelve-year-olds. And like science fiction, comics can be a great form of pop art, occasionally even pushing the boundary between 'high' and 'low' art.Noumenahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02442204504120141558noreply@blogger.com