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Agonus

By Agonus,
Posted on: 2012-02-13 08:29 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture

 

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Originally Posted by Dark One View Post
They've apparently known each other for upwards of 30 years. Do you really think they'd be able to talk like that with someone that had just been hired a few months in the past?
They're already having that discussion for the cameras, from the TV crew to AMC's sizable post-Walking Dead audience. That's a lot of total strangers who are listening to their fantasies about Power Girl, et al. How would having a female cast member put them in any less comfortable a position?

 

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Funny thing... Power girl is never mentioned >.> At least not that I remember.

As far as Kevin Smith fighting with this... I doubt it as the last time i heard about his take on reading this type of stuff is that he doesn't so he might not even know about it or if he does might not care about it. I dunno I don't follow people on twitter or listen to smodcast.

 

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Originally Posted by TrueGentleman View Post
Argued from what position? I haven't patronized a comic book store in decades that didn't have female employees - including, yes, cute ones. A shop that hired only males would have, well, issues in more than one sense.

Smith seems to be deliberately setting up a retrograde image with his "reality" TV show for mainstream consumption. (And Durakken, if he was misquoted, then he's probably already begun an epic Twitter campaign against the Observer.)
If the store has no female employees before the show, then what you see in the show IS the reality of that store and hiring a female employee just to have some "balance" for the show would then be staged and not reality.

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