there is no beauty in a world completely still
June 2013
Fuck Yeah Lois Lane: The Women of Man of Steel (And why I hope there's more like them) →
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WARNING: THIS CONTAINS SPOILERS
Around the beginning of the third act of Man of Steel, I heard a line that actually made me raise my eyebrows.
“You will learn. I will teach you. And you will teach Kal.”
This line is spoken by the consciousness of Superman (Kal-El)’s father Jor-El, to Daily Planet reporter Lois Lane. I was shocked. The damsel in distress, Lois Lane, was in charge of saving superman? Of having to teach superman what to do to help him save the world? I wasn’t expecting it.
When you’re a comic fan and a feminist, you quickly learn to deal with the sexism you can notice in the books you love. Like any media, you must learn to accept that something can be problematic in order to fully enjoy it. You can’t just plug your ears and not enjoy anything, after all. And the comics industry, particularly DC Comics, has been facing some gender-based flak lately.
With a creative team downsizing right down to a neat one percent women a couple years back, coupled with some strange makeovers for the ladies of DC with the New 52, and the entire fiasco of Steph Brown and Cassandra Cain, women haven’t been particularly pleased with DC.
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(seriously what is this pose)
Keely asked me to do a post on why I love Elena, and I’ve always meant to but never really done it. Also because most of the time I don’t even know where to begin or how to start because I love her more than most people in real life. She’s a stunning character and deserves far more love than the rampant hate that she gets. But this is me attempting to put down in words why I adore Elena Gilbert.
I’m going to section this off into categories to make it easier because there’s so much and otherwise I would be all over the place.
“We treat desire as a problem to be solved, address what desire is for and focus on that something and how to acquire it rather than on the nature and the sensation of desire, though often it is the desire between us and the object of desire that fills the space in between with the blue of longing.”
—Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost (via commanderspock)
last year a big group of girls in my class were all talking and this one girl was like “im bisexual” and all the girls like stared at her and then the girl goes “dont worry im only attracted to pretty girls” and i was like did she just burn every girl in here i think she did
