And the latest feminist rage storming my f-list...

[telophase]

...apparently us girls who like movies with explosions and superheroes do so only because we've been conditioned to think that movies that appeal to boys are superior, and we don't need any more female superheroes.

Responses, which I'm linking here so I can read all the comments later:

http://meganbmoore.livejournal.com/882587.html?style=mine
http://tiredfairy.livejournal.com/377250.html
http://octopedingenue.livejournal.com/603068.html?style=mine



P.S. Last two movies I saw in a theatre? Hellboy 2 and The Spirit. Last movies I saw at home? Iron Man and Get Smart. Current favorite TV shows? Mythbusters, Dirty Jobs, and Top Gear. CLEARLY I AM BRAINWASHED A BOY.

Comments

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

No, you aren't a boy. You are, according to Josh Tyler, a woman trained by society to think your natural interests are inferior.

If this guy isn't asingle, I wash my hands of the universe.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

MAYBE I SHOULD TRUST MY TIVO WHEN IT TAPES THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF WHATEVER COUNTY IT IS.

[ebony14.livejournal.com]

May I be the first to say, "OH JOSH TYLER NO!"

[melster.livejournal.com]

Although, Get Smart DOES have the requisite de-badass-ing of the female lead at the end, down to the no-more-practical-clothes, get-a-small-dog, follow-the-guy-around(-and-nag-him, even!). That...really bothered me. I think I started sputtering.

[machinistm.livejournal.com]

I can't decide if this makes me foam-at-mouth angry, cry, or point at laugh that poor deluded soul. Maybe all of the above.

[ukoku.livejournal.com]

Maybe I'd like stories with female protagonists if they didn't all suck.

And this is coming from someone who sees sexism in every piece of media, including car commercials and such. (Those Xmas ones, where the child gets the best present ever, then flashes to the future and it's a car? Notice the girl only likes her present because it's better than what her friend got. Hmmhm. That's right.)

[telophase.livejournal.com]

And according to commercials, I'm supposed to fall all over anyone who gives me diamonds. I think colored stones are much prettier.

[ebony14.livejournal.com]

Have you seen the spoof of those diamonds commercials from "Family Guy"? "Diamonds: She'll pretty much have to...."

[chomiji]

Re rocks ... me too. I love opals, but they're fragile.

[wyrdness.livejournal.com]

Ask most women which movies they’re most looking forward to in 2009 and odds are that it’ll be something starring Julia Roberts.

That's why all 4 women in this house are eagerly anticipating Watchmen and have been since before it was postponed. Why there's a huge collection of sci-fi /horror/ action movies in our DVD collection and why I've just left my housemate (one of the 4 women) watching Ironman downstairs gleefully cackling over flamethrowers and the awesomeness of owning a flying suit.

I admit I did turn in to a bit of a tomboy during my teen years, but right up until then I wore skirts (in fact I refused to wear trousers and shorts because I found them really uncomfortable), played with dolls, made "grass houses" with my neighbour every summer with grass clippings (think of a house blueprint, except made out of grass), and would frequently disobey my mum by running off in to the fields behind our house to build secret bases and climb trees with my brother and the kids from the other end of the road.

I've kind of forgotten what kind of point against that link I was trying to make now, but at least it's moved me past the initial "grrarghwtf?!" reaction of running in to yet more blatant stupidity on the internet. Then again I'm British, and I guess it must be okay for me to like comics and superhero films since most of the men in the world that like touchy-feely musicals are British and therefore based on sheer numbers that must be all of them, so someone in this country has to be there to watch the action movies.

[bonibaru.livejournal.com]

Y halo thar white male privilege.

[madame-manga.livejournal.com]

I smell fear in this man's tone. So what's he afraid of? Well, apparently he defines gender by entertainment preferences, so liking boy stuff makes him a boy and liking girl stuff makes you a girl. Q.E.D.

But if girls were to like what he defines as boy stuff, and weren't led to it by another boy (preserving the masculine claim to the territory) then in his mind the boy stuff loses its special status as substitute testosterone and slips into genderless limbo.

In other words, every time a woman asserts her independent preference for something he thought was his alone, our hero feels his nuts shrink another centimeter. That's the smell of genuine fear. :)

[kyuuketsukirui.livejournal.com]

I think this pretty much sums it up.

[meteorakuli.livejournal.com]

I really like this answer. :D

[chomiji]

Apparently I am not a girl either. Although in that case, someone's got a lot of 'splainin' to do about how I had that baby almost 17 years ago.

[settsimaksimin.livejournal.com]

this is the point where i momentarily delurk to recommend Manhunter (http://www.amazon.com/Manhunter-Vol-Street-Justice-Comics/dp/1401207286/) because Kate Spencer kicks ass and has a wonderfully conflicted and complex personal life.