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Offline kimmy

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Re: Wonder Woman
« on: June 08, 2017, 09:48:10 am »
Why ?

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You seem to be looking for some meaning behind this and I want to know what it is.

I will think more on this and respond more later.

Also since you are talking about 'mass culture' are you making the masses into a kind of 'other'.  Do you consider yourself part of the masses ?  I doubt it.  You seem to be looking for a moral signifer here, which says something about how you look at 'society' (sorry for the use of quotes, I know I don't define my terms very well but that's so boring). 

I am certainly part of the masses, but the masses has a will of its own and I am as uncertain where it's heading as anybody else.  I suppose I am looking for clues as to where things are heading.

In first year university I was 'unwoke' and homophobic but also oblivious.  In the girls' dorm, two ladies shared a room.  One pair used to spend a lot of time together and always watched the Lynda Carter show.  I thought them odd but didn't figure it out until a year or so later.  Two years after I graduated, I ran into another pair of ladies from that dorm who were room-mates, walking down Yonge Street together.  We chatted and caught up, then moved on.  I was as much heart-warmed that they could have found each other randomly like that, their first week away from home, as I was shamefully titillated by the encounter.  In the aspect of how cis males respond to such pairings, I am part of the masses.

That's cute!   "Baywatch" provided a similarly formative experience for a girl I used to know. She even bought a red one-piece bathing suit for me to model for her.

I read Captain Marvel comics that were 50s reprints.  Dr. Silvana was the main villain... when did these other tie-ins happen ?

The Marvel Comics Captain Marvel is not the Captain Marvel you remember ("Shazam!") who was I think a DC Comics character. 

The character who will be in the upcoming Marvel movie is the character who was originally known as Ms Marvel.



She has a new costume that doesn't look like swimwear now, and has become a "Captain" rather than a Ms.   ...perhaps she got drafted, I really don't know.





The thing that will help new points of view get attention, such as women's stories, is utter boredom with middle-class white male stories.  As Jesse Brown from Canadaland says we have seen every combination of these and are saturated.  I am not above watching something because I 'should', ie. eating my cultural vegetables, but I don't have to any more.  I started watching Orange is the new Black out of such motivation and almost turned it off.  But when they wisely started focussing on the back stories of how women of culture get in jail, it got interesting and now I watch every episode with anticipation.

I think there is a market for new and different stories, but there also seems to be a backlash from people who are annoyed that they aren't the center of attention.   There was some amount of grumbling from curmudgeons about the new Star Wars franchise being centered around a female character and about the prominent feminist presence in Mad Max: Fury Road, for example.

Must go; will post more later.

 -k
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