you could be the king but watch the queen conquer: She Wrote It BUT... She Had An Inside Connection

kellysue:

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Dude means well. Dude’s tweeting to Marvel in favor of more diversity. Dude states (inaccurately) that Marvel has two women writers — M. Liu and K. DeConnick, the latter being ‘a lady with an inside connection.’

Just like that—fwoosh. Didn’t work my way in. Got in because of…

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Mutant Women of Earth: How Chris Claremont Reinvented the Female Superhero

“Storm and Kitty Pryde are not the X-Men’s equivalent of Scarlet Witch and Wasp. They’re the X-Men’s equivalent of Captain America and Iron Man. (Cyclops is the X-Men’s Wasp, and also the X-Men’s WASP.) Claremont’s work on these characters, and on Jean Grey and Emma Frost, on Dazzler, Rogue, and Psylocke, on Rachel Summers, Dani Moonstar, Magik and Jubilee, are the very foundation of the modern X-Men. Because Claremont made these characters complex and compelling, and because he did not limit the sort of stories they could be used to tell, the women of the X-Men are the X-Men.”

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thepoliticalnotebook:

“You know, equality is a myth, and for some reason, everyone accepts the fact that women don’t make as much money as men do. I don’t understand that. Why do we have to take a backseat? I truly believe that women should be financially independent from their men. And let’s face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define value. They define what’s sexy. And men define what’s feminine. It’s ridiculous.”

—Beyoncé in GQ. First, this is an excellent quote.

Now I recognize the weirdness of this: Beyoncé has not, at least publicly, accepted the label of feminist and this quote was in the GQ article which accompanied this cover, which is that picture of Beyoncé smoldering away in true form in her underwear that has been all over Tumblr since it was leaked ahead of publication. The picture was, of course, taken by Terry Richardson of gross, hipster misogyny fame, the man who has substituted being a predatory creep for actual artistic talent. (No, I’m not linking to his weird Tumblr, you’ve all seen it.)

There’s too much going on here for me to reconcile. Beyoncé as a strong woman of great achievement and ambition on many fronts, talking in a direct and savvy way about a business-y understanding of what I would term feminism, in a magazine with that cover. Hadley Freeman astutely notes that feminism, and women, are being done no favors by having famous women pose for photographs like this and comments on the  direction in which covers like GQ’s and Esquire’s have been moving. We do benefit from people like Beyoncé saying things like the above.

It’s impossible for us to escape the contradictions of our existence. As feminist as I am, I live in world saturated in inequality, a world in which I can’t help participating. This is true on an incredibly public level for Beyoncé, who participates in this kind of massively gendered celebrity. We can be independent and cognizant of misogynist reality but we cannot escape living in that world and being influenced by it and being induced to cooperate with it. This is not an excuse offered, but a search for an explanation of how contradictory things like this can and frequently do co-exist.

(And this commentary is all without getting into the discussion of her ongoing large-scale self-archiving project.)

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Meet the new X-Men (Who are All Ladies!)

dcwomenkickingass:

So that teaser from Marvel last week with Brian Wood and Oliver Copiel was indeed an all lady X-Men. That’s a nice line-up, Storm, Psylocke, Kitty, Rachel, Rogue and Jubilee. I would have added X-23 but she’s stuck in Avengers Arcade. (Wood wanted Emma Frost but she wasn’t available).

Brian Wood is the perfect writer for this and not only because he’s basically been writing an almost all female X book for awhile. You can read more here.

It’s a pretty fantastic interview but here’s what stuck out for me:

Wood also promises to bring a lot of relationships, love and sex into the book, “in the classic X-men way — the way it used to be.”

He wants to challenge the double standards that have been in superhero books for years, were Wolverine can sleep with anybody but if a female character does it twice, she’s promiscuous, which Wood sees constantly online.

“To everybody’s credit, these people are often shot down immediately for being sexist and unfair, but that is a very common thing,” Wood says.

“We’re just going to do it. We’re not going to worry about that. If Kitty or Rogue has basic human bodily urges, tough luck (to those opposed). To me, that’s as much of the X-Men as anything else.”

Amen, brotha!

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JUMPING UP AND DOWN

I have been reading more X-Men-ish type stuff lately too (Morrison’s New X-Men, Wolverine and the X-Men, I don’t know if X-Statix counts) so by the time this comes out, I will hopefully know much more about that side of the Marvel universe!

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theinconceivablemiddlepage:

grasstomyknees:

As promised, here is my all female rap mixtape. 42 songs seems like a lot. That’s because it is. Hopefully you like it. If you don’t, that’s not my problem. Enjoy.

Link: http://everyonesmixtape.com/#rgVgrLQMiUy1

  1. Azealia Banks – Fierce
  2. Lady – Twerk
  3. M.I.A. – Bad Girls Remix ft. Missy Elliott & Azealia Banks
  4. Nicki Minaj – Itty Bitty Piggy
  5. Missy Elliott – Lose Control
  6. Angel Haze – New York
  7. Lil Kim – The Jump Off
  8. Njena Reddd Foxxx – Silly Bitch
  9. Sasha Gohard – What We Do
  10. Diamond – Team Pretty Bitches
  11. Eve – Let Me Blow Ya Mind
  12. Khia – My Neck, My Back
  13. Lil Mama – Lip Gloss
  14. Remy Ma – Fresh
  15. Nicki Minaj –Womp Womp
  16. Rye Rye – DJ Go
  17. Azealia Banks – L8r
  18. Lady – Yankin
  19. Na’Tee – No Love
  20. Rasheeda – Bubblegum Remix ft. Kandi, Diamond, & Princess
  21. Trina – Bad Bitch
  22. Shawnna – Bitch Like Me
  23. M.I.A. – Paper Planes
  24. Lauryn Hill – Lost Ones
  25. Shystie – Control It ft. Azealia Banks
  26. Santigold – Creator
  27. Lil Kim – Suck My Dick
  28. Amil – Amilli
  29. Honey Cocaine – Making Me High
  30. Kid Sister – Big N Bad
  31. Foxy Brown – Na Na Be Like
  32. Azealia Banks – Fuck Up The Fun
  33. Princess -  Cocky Chick
  34. Left Eye – Hot
  35. Khia – Pay Your Pussy Bill
  36. Da Brat – Motivation
  37. Queen Latifah – Ladies First
  38. Roxanne Shante’ – Big Mama
  39. Lady of Rage – Unfuckwitable
  40. McLyte – Ice Cream Dream
  41. JJ Fad – In The Mix
  42. Salt N Pepa – I Like It Like That

how do you have a female rap mixtape without charli baltimore or bahamadia??

bahamadia’s ‘Uknowhowwedu’; 1995 real shit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyGUesyG7bU

It’s back on my dash!  Reblogging it again!  Also, thanks for the tip about bahamadia.  Good stuff.

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anglepoiselamp:

The 7 Most Ridiculous Things About Calling Out Fake Fangirls

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peterquills:

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montrealmighteatitsyoung:

cracked:

Calm down, you fucking nerds.

Hot damn Cracked is just destroying it lately.

 ”If you’re calling someone out as a fake fan, what’s your victory condition? Preventing someone else from liking things you like? When your plan is “prevent people from enjoying Superman,” you’re a Hostess snack cake villain, and even more irrelevant to the modern world. When someone appoints himself the World’s Greatest Thor Fan, he needs to understand that Asgardians don’t require defense against cooties. Those new fans aren’t Skrulls. For a superhero, battling imposters isn’t a problem, it’s a Tuesday. And if you think the greatest Thor fan in the world is male, wow, you’ve been using a different Internet from me”

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best bit of the article tbh

Fighting against fake geeks is like fighting against unicorns: You’re an asshole, and even if they were real, your stated goal is trying to kill something wonderful.

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Cracked isn’t always the best with this stuff, but this article is also a unicorn

“The tragedy of territorial geeks is that they found the wonderful world of fantasy, then missed its point.”

“There have always been attacks on “fake geek girls,” but recently some comics professionals have joined the battle. Which makes sense, because fights with imaginary women who don’t wear many clothes is a big part of that industry. ”

Oh snap!

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Source: cracked

thedailywhat:

Resentment of the Day: On Fake Geek Girls

Great rant!  She reads Tony Harris’s Facebook shit at the beginning, but you can skip to 3.57 if you want to just hear her rant.

I have been a geek since about age 11 (first time people started calling me one), so this shit really affects me, and I’m glad it’s recently become a Big Thing people are talking about on the internet.

thehawkeyeinitiative.tumblr.com

gingerhaze:

thehawkeyeinitiative:

Submissions are open - feel free to add anything awesome you find!

Note: Awesome artwork shown above is the creation & property of gingerhaze.tumblr.com, who inspired this awesome amazing project here

THE HAWKEYE INITIATIVE HAS ITS OWN BLOG! It is not run by me (this is good because I am terrible at managing secondary blogs). You guys people have been drawing some HYSTERICAL Strong Hawkeye Poses and you really need to check it out!

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wednesday:annlarimer:random-nexus:fuzzydeathmachine:duessa:stablercake:ghostgreen:eschergirls: “Amazing creature” is right.  (And if we extrapolate where her knee is off the page, her thighs might be the length of her upper body.) Also… that is not water… it was either raining milk outside, or she got into a fight with Spider-Man, or… heterosexual men just are so gross. :P Well at least I know that despite my being broken I will never be as broken as this woman. It must be horrible to be missing a spine and have only one leg so she has to hold herself up on tables. Must be why she has to settle for this neckbeard dude WHAT IS HAPPENING TO THIS POOR WOMAN’S BODY I SEE NOTHING WRONG HERE CLEARLY THOSE DARN FEMINISTS ARE JUST MAKING IT ALL UP C O M I C S (they’re for straight white guys) Her other leg is there, just barely shown slightly below the nearer leg, and I suppose that’s meant to be the cleft of her bum there, with a pocket on either side.  But you’re all missing the most obvious thing here: SHE’S AN ALIEN!  She’s not even GOOD at pretending to be a human!  Look at that torso, it looks more like a bundle of muscles, or tentacles under a layer of fake skin, or… or something.  I mean, clearly she’s already oozing some sort of digestive fluid, maybe something sticky to wrap him in, or a contact soporific.  That poor dork is about to get eaten, or have eggs laid in him, or incorporated into her biomass so she can bud, or I dunno, something HORRIBLE! Is…is she meant to be dripping water? THAT DOES NOT LOOK LIKE WATER. So. I went and looked at the source material, because this looked like a familiar bit of oh god what. This just doesn’t get any better, you guys. MIKE DEODATO’S JADE WARRIORS tells the story of the last generation of warrior women genetically engineered to conceive, give birth to, and protect the child of a Dragon! The Dragons were undisputed rulers of the prehistoric Earth, but were wiped out in the same cataclysm that killed off nearly every other living thing on the planet. This Dragon, having disguised his true form by masquerading as a Japanese crimelord, is the last of his kind, who intends to use the child’s powers to repopulate the species, take over Japan,and from there, the entire planet, with him as it’s ruler. Angel Sorayama, code named Deathkiss, was once part of the Jade Warriors, until one night she killed one of her clan sisters and fled into the night. The remaining team members have sworn to bring her back to their master, at any cost, while Deathkiss has sworn to stop her formaer master, even if she has to kill the only family she’s ever known to do so. Deathkiss has only two allies to back her up— Bob Campbell, a freelance writer; and Naomi Sellers, the manager of an exotic dance club. Not exactly a “dream team” when going up against assassins with a lifetime of training! And what part with the nigh-indestructible Ramthar play in this battle? Yeah. Also, acid saliva. Also also, I figured it out: you know those diagrams of how to insert a tampon? The ones where all the organs are located on the hip and the model only has the one, wide leg? She’s one of the models. Oh yeah, I recognize that name.  This is the dude who draws New Avengers these days.  Yes, he is terrible.
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wednesday:annlarimer:random-nexus:fuzzydeathmachine:duessa:stablercake:ghostgreen:eschergirls:

“Amazing creature” is right.  (And if we extrapolate where her knee is off the page, her thighs might be the length of her upper body.)

Also… that is not water… it was either raining milk outside, or she got into a fight with Spider-Man, or…

heterosexual men just are so gross.

:P

Well at least I know that despite my being broken I will never be as broken as this woman.

It must be horrible to be missing a spine and have only one leg so she has to hold herself up on tables.

Must be why she has to settle for this neckbeard dude

WHAT IS HAPPENING TO THIS POOR WOMAN’S BODY

I SEE NOTHING WRONG HERE

CLEARLY THOSE DARN FEMINISTS ARE JUST MAKING IT ALL UP

C O M I C S

(they’re for straight white guys)

Her other leg is there, just barely shown slightly below the nearer leg, and I suppose that’s meant to be the cleft of her bum there, with a pocket on either side. 

But you’re all missing the most obvious thing here: SHE’S AN ALIEN!  She’s not even GOOD at pretending to be a human!  Look at that torso, it looks more like a bundle of muscles, or tentacles under a layer of fake skin, or… or something.  I mean, clearly she’s already oozing some sort of digestive fluid, maybe something sticky to wrap him in, or a contact soporific. 

That poor dork is about to get eaten, or have eggs laid in him, or incorporated into her biomass so she can bud, or I dunno, something HORRIBLE!

Is…is she meant to be dripping water? THAT DOES NOT LOOK LIKE WATER.


So.

I went and looked at the source material, because this looked like a familiar bit of oh god what. This just doesn’t get any better, you guys.

MIKE DEODATO’S JADE WARRIORS tells the story of the last generation of warrior women genetically engineered to conceive, give birth to, and protect the child of a Dragon! The Dragons were undisputed rulers of the prehistoric Earth, but were wiped out in the same cataclysm that killed off nearly every other living thing on the planet. This Dragon, having disguised his true form by masquerading as a Japanese crimelord, is the last of his kind, who intends to use the child’s powers to repopulate the species, take over Japan,and from there, the entire planet, with him as it’s ruler. Angel Sorayama, code named Deathkiss, was once part of the Jade Warriors, until one night she killed one of her clan sisters and fled into the night. The remaining team members have sworn to bring her back to their master, at any cost, while Deathkiss has sworn to stop her formaer master, even if she has to kill the only family she’s ever known to do so. Deathkiss has only two allies to back her up— Bob Campbell, a freelance writer; and Naomi Sellers, the manager of an exotic dance club. Not exactly a “dream team” when going up against assassins with a lifetime of training! And what part with the nigh-indestructible Ramthar play in this battle?

Yeah.

Also, acid saliva.

Also also, I figured it out: you know those diagrams of how to insert a tampon? The ones where all the organs are located on the hip and the model only has the one, wide leg? She’s one of the models.

Oh yeah, I recognize that name.  This is the dude who draws New Avengers these days.  Yes, he is terrible.

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Source: eschergirls