She-Ra had superior writing to He-Man, easily. Paul Dini and J. Michael Straczynski worked on several episodes and they seemed to have more leeway to focus on good stories.

Never. Not ever. Caucasian immigrant in the US, grew up with what would be considered gender dysphoria today, but had no frame of reference at the time. No interest in transitioning now, pretty good at being me. I don’t think I’d see “myself” anymore if I presented myself as female, and I don’t identify as it anyway.…

Shia’s fist was like a velvet glove cast in iron!

I think “for or against the death penalty” is oversimplifying things to an almost absurd degree. I’m having trouble finding statistics specifically about homicide recidivism, but 71.3% of violent offenders reoffend (https://www.nij.gov/topics/corrections/recidivism/Pages/welcome.aspx) and the US had 12,253 intentional…

I always saw it more as an indictment of female characters often being disposable plot devices rather than being written to be full, three-dimensional characters and their partner being male being incidental. I’m racking my brain trying to think of a same-sex example in comics that could shed some light either way,…

And they are exactly the kind of high skilled immigrants the GOP “wants” here.

For fuck’s sake, they even have a supervillain acronym name.

“A married Houston neurologist couple” would work too.

Ehhhh, judgement call. While the term originated with Green Lantern and has (obviously) mostly been applied to male characters, it still fundamentallyhits all the same notes. Supporting female love interest gets killed off just to motivate a main character to take action. That it’s mostly used to motivate dudes, I…

Someone really needs to smack his bish op.

Haha, I like these a lot. I dig the occult and tarot stuff. I like that her style strikes a good balance between realistic and cartoony. Far too many “quirky” pictures (for lack of a better term) tend to drift too far towards cartoony for my taste.

Different character. I would LOVE a Batwoman movie.

About the only sin he hasn’t committed (I think) is Fridging the Girlfriend/Wife.

I remember reading some book about the Riot Grrl movement, where they talked about women going back to their childhood, to experience a girlhood innocence they felt the patriarchy had taken from them.

An interesting perspective. I don’t necessarily disagree, it just goes opposite to what a lot of the standard arguments tend to be when, for instance, issues of potentially provocative clothing comes up. Thanks for sharing your view. :)

As long as you’re comfortable with her being a liar, a hypocrite and is undermining the cause she pretends to support so she can get pats on the back, then it would make sense that you’d support her in both scenarios.

Of course it’s not the same thing, it’s meat instead of makeup. Beyond that, it’s exactly the same thing, though.

Its a form of symbolic violence, “you are not worthy, you are not good enough unless you meet my narrow, impossible standards, we dominate this conversation and how you look”. You are supposed to look good for men in a particular way and this is how they want to see you.

I admit, I’ve never quite understood how the degradation of other human beings was supposed to bring about an increased sense of unity.