The History Of The Universe As Told By Wonder Woman

Marvel's female superheroes

The awesome Tricia Creason Valenicia of Flaca Films sent us this great blog link about women in comics over at BlogHer. What is the potential of these heroes and what should be our concern.

If it is irritating raising a girl in a culture obsessed with living blow-up dolls, it is even even more so when my daughter falls in love with intelligent, capable characters like Marvel’s Emma Frost or Misty Knight, then sees those women’s bodies drawn like living blow-up dolls. Though Iz currently seems less concerned with the comic artists’ objectification of women and more perturbed by comic writers’ proofreading errors (“Mommy, Cyclops misspelled ‘anarchist’!”), I worry that those images, those attitudes will warp the way she sees herself and how she judges other women.

She invites a few well-informed female comic geeks to ponder: What draws them to comics, science fiction, and fantasy? Which characters are role-model-worthy for girls? And what should we tell young girls about how they are represented?

Read the article by Shannon Des Roches Rosa, HERE!