Lit Ignorance is Bias: The Diversity Manifesto

I'm guessing unconscious chivalry, unless your local fencing community is just abnormally dominated by talented women. I never noticed any particular gender disparity between male and female fencers; I've beaten both and been beaten by both. And since our club was short on funds, we didn't have enough female gear to go around, and that lack of disparity held up regardless if they were in contoured chest protectors or not.

 

Trak's hardcore; she probably finished the operation herself.

 

I wasn't dosed enough, so I woke up mid-way through. And then told the surgeon I was awake. Since then, I'm usually given a double dose, and that knocks me out and I sleep for five hours afterward. But yes, anesthesia is based on body size. Small people get smaller doses.

 

I realize it's not a laughing matter (seriously I can't begin to imagine what it must have been like) but now I have this mental image of you telling them "You bungled it guys, I'm wide awake" in a completely calm voice while the whole room stops in shock and someone drops something. I've never had surgery and whenever I think about it, my mind (a known sadist who likes to torment me) goes "What if you wake up in the middle of the whole thing but not enough to regain use of your mouth - just to experience the pain?".

 

At the pro level I actually think that's where the gap might be largest. I'm not sure myself, but I know some WTA pros themselves have admitted they would have a lot of trouble even returning shots from guys like Nadal, Djokovic, and Murray.

The one I've never understood is golf. It's hard for me to believe that the best women golfers wouldn't at least make the cut fairly routinely if they played on the PGA Tour.

 

Kieron Gillen on the Captain America #22 mess:

http://kierongillen.tumblr.com/post/91144058367/do-you-understand-that-the-stuff-about-remenders-cap

 

I'm right there with Gillen--I've been reading the Remender run since the beginning, and while I like Jet (and am actually more invested in her than in Cap or Falcon), there's a fair conversation that can be had about the character and the sexualization of young women and all that. But people reflexively screaming SHE'S 14!!! without having actually read the issue or even bothering to research it for two seconds drives me insane and is precisely the kind of self-defeating nonsense PC is so quick to complain about.

 

So today's xkcd was interestingly relevant.

 

Heh, that's not far from the truth. I laid there for a while and thought about how cool of a story it would be to tell, and then finally said in a groggy voice "I'm awake." I was told to go back to sleep, which I did.

 

http://observationdeck.io9.com/why-must-dudes-ruin-perfectly-good-superheroine-and-act-1601649158

 

A lot of this is down to Romita only being able to draw people at three ages; child with GIANT head, adult with moderately large head, and old person with big head.

Basically, he would be awesome for a grim and gritty PEANUTS relaunch, but for properly drawing characters at various ages he sucks.

His teen Rachel Summers always looked like she was a thirty year old alkie.

ETA: Anyone who has actually read the run knows she was a LOT older than her brother, and her sexuality only came out at age appropriate times (as she entered her teen years) and because she grew up in the other dimension she doesn't know what a lot of experiences (like sex) are like, and there's nothing wrong with Falcon having sex with her.

I actually run hot and cold on Remender's work, but this has just been a joke, and as someone who has watched both Twitter and Tumblr...the people involved may have got some abuse...but there really hasn't been the sort of ridiculous backlash against these people IN PUBLIC which has happened with other women who've spoken up in the past. I'm not saying it's not happening, but the current thing is to shift the story to; "Well, this is actually not about Remender but about comics!"

Which...maybe call if #firecomics if that's the case, but don't go after a person because you disagree with their storytelling.

 

ETA: ignore, that was me screwing up Edit and Reply. Sorry.

 

Power Boy.

XD

 

It took me an embarrassingly long time to figure out that the article was satire. Once I saw that picture though, I knew. I also knew that I would never be able to unsee it.

 

I'm kind of scared of the idea that anyone isn't with Gillen. We can have all the discussions about comics in general we want, but the actual facts of what happened in the comic really shouldn't be a matter of debate.

 

That crotch window is dangerous. If he ever sees a woman he finds really attractive .... well.

 

Sorry for the double post but I can't edit it anymore. Anyway, what do you guys and gals think of Batgirl's new look?

http://www.tor.com/blogs/2014/07/batgirl-dc-comics-new-costume-photos

The costume I'm ok with - with the exception of the mask, the eye holes are so huge the whole thing is almost pointless. However I'm not sure what to think of their idea to make her more hipster like (a term I dislike) and is it me or she taking a selfie in that one image? Of course this is just what went through my mind at a first glance and nothing else.

 

My first reaction as usual was...
DC still sells comics?!

But otherwise.... yeah it seems very "girly", whilst the outfit is nice and practical looking, the mask really is way to small.

 

Meh. I haven't paid attention to anything to do with the Bat-family since they got rid of Stephanie Brown and Cassie Cain.

 

I don't really read comics much (Star Wars being the exception) but I saw the article while browsing TOR and thought I should bring it up here, see if anyone thinks it's worth talking about. I definitely like that they stepped away from the spandex suit (or whatever superhero bodyglove outfits are made out of).

 

Isn't she supposed to be in a wheelchair or something?