Oops Clevernamehere, I just did a post-submitting read of my comment and realize I cut out Children and Fire in the fourth paragraph when I deleted something. Based on the Amazon summary and reviews, that one looks like a fine book directed at a significant event, not deliberately at a female personage or to a female…

I don't really see anything in your comment that clearly responds to my suggestion that our analysis of this subject should control for the skewed authorship-demographics phenomenon. Do you agree that it would be helpful to factor that in, or what?

[Please read my comment as though you had written a first-comment and I am responding to that. Danny Hipster's comment is weird and hard to follow, and my comment has nothing to do with it; I'm solely responding to yours!]

It sounds like we’re pretty much on the same page. I was just picking one nit on a pet peeve about revisionist history sometimes applied to details of the Riggs v. King match.

Haha that was great, I laughed out loud along with them! Thanks.

Haha, I wasn't born yet! Tho I don't see how that's relevant. Whether Riggs insisted he could still beat her goes to his hubris and perhaps male attitudes of the time. But it has no bearing on comparative men's and women's capabilities in tennis, which I want to re-emphasize is the only nit I was picking.

I would be interested in reading a similar post on borderline personality disorder.

Wow, that is an unreal photo! I bet there are very few photos with that kind of collection of talent.

Almost everything you wrote seems spot on to me, but one nit: the Riggs-King match is not a barometer of men-versus women tennis capabilities.

Hey it's the annual Jezebel article about women tennis players grunting and the obvious sexist motivations of those who don't like it! Now I know what time of year it is.

Hello LordBurleigh.

No big deal, thanks! And I wasn't aware there is a sequel, so that is exciting news. It also reinforces that the spoiler you slipped is indeed not a total one at all, as you mention. So that's exciting news too!

Ugh. Thanks for the spoiler of Forge of God! I am a couple hundred pages in. Dammit. Ah well, I've done the unintentional spoiler thing too!

To summarize as briefly as possible my reply to your response:

LordBurleigh, in your first paragraph it seems you analogized a comic book/film franchise directed at young boys that includes a beautiful, capable heroine character, to a potential counterpart of 'endless racism.' That is simply not a fair starting point, and leaves it unsurprising that your conclusions head down…

Your take on the presentation of the heroes in Avengers (and elsewhere) seems to ignore an important factor: the audience. A film is allowed to be made with an eye toward a particular audience, and Avengers is one such film.

Actually, this made me laugh!

This little guy has a pretty sympathetic case. I've seen several situations where youth teams had a girl who could play with the boys, and just kept doing so until she was just outgrown, or hit some other clean breaking point like starting high school. Then everyone just used common sense and she found another sport…

Welcome!

Out of curiosity, is there a specific reason a cup size column would have bothered you?