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I dunno if there was anything beautiful about Mark Bagley's art... Other than an oddly hot Aunt May.

Except in my case, like yours, I'd turn a corner, it would lag every time and frequently crash. I made the change and it hasn't crashed since. Hopefully the devs will switch it to off by default for mac users sometime soon. I found it very offputting.

To me, this rice is my family. This rice is my mudda and fadda!

I read about this! Her story is very interesting - For everyone that can't be bothered to read, she actually didn't know that she was used in the poster until it became a symbol for women's rights groups in the 80's. Also, funnily enough, she quit the job where she inspired this poster after just one week, afraid of being injured and ruining her ability to play the cello. But I don't want to derail my own thread!

Yeah but that came so much later it seems like pandering. Correct me if I'm wrong but Janet Pym, the Wasp, actually started off as an assistant or something? She's the only female scientist I can think of. I guess She Hulk is a lawyer, but she didn't show up till the 80's. My point being it seems reactionary to this criticism and even more insulting (Especially in the case of She-Hulk where her power is also very apparent appeasement of the demand for strong women.)

Thanks! I'll be checking this out

Couldn't agree more with everything you said

Lots of people are saying this, and I agree. I don't think you'll find a single guy on this board that looks like Superman (Although I'm sure I'm the closest) but I really think these unrealistic depictions are still of a male, rather than female fantasy. Superman and Captain America show us men what we want to be, rather than what women want their men to be - One simply has to look to any movie popular with women and see that George Clooney and Hugh Grant aren't muscle bound heroes - What women want in a man is much subtler than that. But I think you'd have a hard time finding a man that doesn't want to look like Captain America. I know I do!

So to get back to the original point, when you read Golden Age Superman the vast majority of the advertisements are addressed to both boys and girls, and some are even specifically for girls! You definitely wouldn't see that if you opened up a comic book today. Did comic artists decide to sell out and alienate their female audience? Did women stop reading comics and so they stopped bothering to include them? Or a combination of both?

That's definitely true, I hadn't considered it.

Thanks! I'll check it out. I watched the movie but not the extras.

Rosie the Riveter! Anyway thanks for your opinion, I hadn't considered that the return to family values in the late 50's could be at the source of all of this.

I'm not so sure about that - A person can work to become strong, get rich and become smart. A person can't really work to become beautiful or have bigger breasts. What I mean to say is I feel like the male characters are sort of a projection of male fantasies as well.

Yeah no kidding. I just watched Bourne Identity (It's on Netflix streaming currently, if you haven't seen it or wanna watch it again!) and between the gunplay, fighting scenes and chase scene I'd say it's equal to Terminator 2 in my book, and probably one of the best action movies ever made. The only thing I disliked about it is that it had more of a thriller ending than an action movie one. But I guess that's cause it was teasing the sequel.


Yeah that's up there too, but I didn't like the pacing too much and of course it lacks a chase scene, particularly one featuring motorcycles.

Whatever you've got! I like kung fu movies and Hong Kong blood operas too if you know any of those.