Gamora and Angela

[transemacabre]

I will say this about Guardians of the Galaxy -- it's kind of cool to see two ass-kicking warrior women in a comic book who are obviously really good friends. In a boisterous "I could SO kick your ass. If I felt like it :D" mutual respect kind of way.

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Yeah. I had a recent discussion/altercation with someone who had clearly read a lot of postmodernist guff on the subject in a college course, and was making all sorts of questionable claims about its importance in gender terms. Her line was that "even if people say they're just writing it because they think it's hot, you shouldn't believe their self-reported motives". At which point, I thought "WTF?!" If someone says that's why they're writing, why disbelieve them and try to dress it up in a lot of half-baked gender theory? As I said, what does irk me is that the same people will then complain about the lack of well-written female characters in their fandom, while their own writing is deliberately marginalising or ignoring women…