What’s That Smell?
I think it’s . . . stupidity!
I’m done linking to this guy because all it does is make him send me badly spelled comments along the lines of “aw, look at the poor little girl” (not to mention that his nonsense has bored me. Where’s the laughter that it once brought out? Gone. Gone I say! I can’t even get a chuckle out of the bad spelling anymore.) so I’ll just send you to When Fangirls Attack. His link is the last one for December 19th.
Let me tell you why he doesn’t get it. He has no problem with Superman or Batman saving people. If they save a woman, it doesn’t mean the woman is stupid or incompetent (let’s leave Lois Lane out of this, OK?). Why? Because it’s freaking Superman or Batman! They’re superheroes—it’s what they do! They have powers or abilities that normal people don’t have. That doesn’t mean that the person they’re saving is a dumbass. It doesn’t mean that the person is incompetent.
But if Wonder Woman does it? It means that Gail Simone hates men and she’s making men look stupid just so Wonder Woman can save them! WW is a superhero, just like Superman and Batman. She saves people. What the hell? Are we supposed to read a WW comic in which she does nothing?
And this is why it’s useless to even engage someone like this blogger. Not only is he working with stereotypes but he has a very rigid outlook on gender roles. You can say to him, “I read a superhero comic because I want to see the superhero save people.” But for him—and thankfully, this seems to be an extreme position—it’s only OK for a superhero to save someone if he’s male. Women aren’t supposed to do that. So, if a female superhero saves a man, it must mean that the writer is saying men are incompetent! Because that’s a woman’s role—to be saved! It’s too much for his “manhood” to see the roles switched from what he thinks they should be.
Look at that! Wonder Woman is making a man look stupid! The horror! Oh, the horror!
