bunnies never fail to make me happy
Someone put some bongos under this rabbits paws.
The folks over at Comicbooked interviewed Greg Rucka where he discusses the treatment of women by Hollywood and DC Comics. Rucka’s discussion of Hollywood comes in reference to the development of his Queen and Country for the big screen. That discussion, as you’ll see, turns into a discussion of the comic book world. Rucka left DC Comics in 2010.
You should go click through to the whole interview and listen to the podcast this was taken from but here are some of the more provocative soundbites:
“There’s an absurd marketing issue which is this conceit that Hollywood labors under and they’ve got studies to back it up, that their market is men 18 to 34, and they won’t go see a woman in an action role, which is utter bulls**t. I mean, if you can think of any demographic that’s more likely to go see women in an action role it’s going to be a guy who’s eighteen! What’s the thing that eighteen-year-old is constantly thinking about? Girls. It’s absurd and the more you look into it, the more the fallacy falls apart….
….The same studies that these guys swear by—‘our demographic is men age 18 to 34, who drive purchasing’—well, alright. Those same studies say it’s women age 20 to 40 who control the income outlay. They control the pocketbook, so why aren’t you marketing to them? It doesn’t make any sense and it’s a fundamentally misogynistic market field and people wonder why we see such negative representations of women or the same consistent galling of women and objectification of women in media and you strip everything away and the only argument that remains is it’s a misogynistic industry—they don’t like women. And you see that all over comics now, too.
These things aren’t going away now and I think in large part the reason they’re not going away is that in particular DC did an extraordinary job of revealing the truth of their situation—they don’t care.That’s what they said at San Diego—not only do we not care but we actually don’t want you here, go away. Well, guess what? That’s a sh***y business model and you’re going to lose money and you’re going to lose readers. It doesn’t make any sense to me from a business standpoint, right? I was lecturing at the University of Oregon yesterday and the only analog I can come up with is if Apple had said, ‘you know what? We’re only selling iPhones to blondes.’ It doesn’t make any sense—why would you just exclude a whole portion of your market? And the combination of arrogance and ignorance is appaling, and people should be angry. And the mere fact that the people who then actually spoke out about it who were threatened—talk about wanting to make ourselves look good. Nice endorsement for the industry, there.”Yeah.I really don’t have anything to add.Except,Preach it Reverend Rucka!I met Rucka at ECCC (he signed my copy of Batwoman and gave me encouraging words) and I can honestly say that I am happy we - as a whole - have someone like him to speak out against misogyny. Not because he’s a man (and somehow that can still seem to hold more weight), but because he’s simply someone who is compassionate and intelligent and very willing to call people out on their bullshit. (Yeah, you, DC.) If only more people were willing to listen to him and so many of us who wish to see the end of misogynistic crap in comics.
That’s not to say that all comics will be great if you take out the misogynistic viewpoints (a bad comic can still be bad for plenty of other reasons) - but at least it will stop being as degrading and potentially harmful to women and how comic books represent us.
(via chirart)
Previous winners (sorry for taking so long!) of the big pony button giveaways to select 10 from the whole set are:
====
- Now, to this giveaway! There will be two winners, each to receive two keychains of their choice. Unless we go over 1500 notes, then at that point another winner’s added. Every 500 past that is another.
- Or if you want to buy them, they’re here (along with the buttons!) — I apologize that I don’t have the rest of the buttons/prints up yet, in case you wanted to order more than ponies, but we’re working on that. If you have no interest in ponies, the regular shop has everything else.
- They’re each 1.75” x 2.75” hard clear acrylic keychains.
Oh my goodness Applejack you are so adorable AAAAAAAAAH
Button giveaway winner: gabesmellsbacon!
If there’s no response by May 29th, I’ll choose another winner. Thanks everyone for participating!!
For those who are still interested, custom button sales are still taking orders for Fanime until midnight TONIGHT, May 21st so please get those in on time!
Rabbit and a… foot massager.
casually attempting to steal rabbit from computer screen…
(Source: lovelylops)
This is my rabbits! Although I use a xpen, no cages here!
omg SO TRUE!! Look at all that fur being shed!! Although Latte is a magical non-chew-wires bunny, idk what it is but he has no interest in chewing furniture legs or wires, much to the enjoyment of my boyfriend who likes to leave the wires for his 3-4 game consoles and 2 computers lying around everywhere.
I LOVE BUNNIES.
