Some More Fun For You
An apparent great post by Rucka. You know, until you think about it.
Straight, white male readers don’t read the death of Superman and feel a loss for their entire group. Straight white male characters get to be individuals.
And here’s a great post on the invisible women who read comics.
JK:Why don’t more women read comic books in North America, in your view?
BL: Because – they’re not written for women. Why don’t you read Harlequin romance novels*? I would speculate that they simply don’t appeal to you.
Okay.
So superhero stories are modern mythology, the template for society’s fears and dreams and a universal power fantasy – and not for women. If women don’t read comics, as Layton believes, yet society’s fears and dreams template onto the superhero comic, as Layton also believes, then there is implicitly no place for women in society. Women are simply excluded from the universal “we” Layton envisages.
