She coined the term.
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Simone also brought fridging to everyone’s attention, right? That alone is enough to sign me up.
This is awesome. Gail Simone not only writes great comics (read Domino and Plastic Man, please!), but she also includes a diverse array of characters. Her run on Batgirl introduced one of the few trans characters (Alysia Yeoh) in comics and her run on The Movement included one of the only asexual characters (Tremor)…
Last year, Lion Forge Comics launched Catalyst Prime, a new, diverse universe of comic book superheroes. Now it’s…
It’s news that should come of no surprise to either people who saw Black Panther earlier this year or were aware of…
Bullshit.
Looks like Amazon Studios is getting into the role-playing business. It’s developing a sci-fi series based on Tales…
This autumn, Kate Kane was set to descend on the CW’s Arrowverse as a part of its now-traditional multi-show…
Out of the whole block of Disney-centric cartoons from the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, TaleSpin, which used a version…
Fancy Victorian women with super powers? It’s been done.
Meh, I don’t know. I think Whedon’s best days are behind him. His work was progressive and innovative 20 yearrs ago and I thank him for that. But society has evolved since then and left him in the dust. Which is not a bad thing - it means progrress has been made, as meager and fragile as it may seem.
I am trying to picture a more ambitious narrative than Dollhouse.
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He’s a rich white male who wrote some feminist stuff. Clearly a special case!
How in the era of #MeToo is fucking sexist, misogynist Whedon still working in the industry?
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So apparently HBO didn't get the memo that we've grown passed Whedon's late 90s feminism and nobody wants to watch him write about women anymore.
League of Extraordinary Ladies?
Maybe hire a woman to do a story about Victorian women? Especially since they hired a guy who is personally such a mess when it comes to his relationships with women and how they translate into his work. We don’t need more Joss Whedon poser feminist pieces.