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it’s tough being a hero
Been thinking about FF7 lately. This started as a warm-up just for me, but then I spent too long on it and figured I should share it. For some reason this comic makes me feel really embarrassed. Probably because of how honest it is :T
I liked this panel, so I colored it!
“The problem that needs to be fixed is not kick all the girls out of YA, it’s teach boys that stories featuring female protagonists or written by female authors also apply to them. Boys fall in love. Boys want to be important. Boys have hopes and fears and dreams and ambitions. What boys also have is a sexist society in which they are belittled for “liking girl stuff.” Male is neutral, female is specific. I heard someone mention that Sarah Rees Brennan’s THE DEMON’S LEXICON would be great for boys, but they’d never read it with that cover. Friends, then the problem is NOT with the book. It’s with the society that’s raising that boy. It’s with the community who inculcated that boy with the idea that he can’t read a book with an attractive guy on the cover. Here’s how we solve the OMG SO MANY GIRLS IN YA problem: quit treating women like secondary appendages. Quit treating women’s art like it’s a niche, novelty creation only for girls. Quit teaching boys to fear the feminine, quit insisting that it’s a hardship for men to have to relate to anything that doesn’t specifically cater to them. Because if I can watch Raiders of the Lost Ark and want to grow up to be an archaeologist, there’s no reason at all that a boy shouldn’t be able to read THE DEMON’S LEXICON with its cover on. My friends, sexism doesn’t just hurt women, and our young men’s abysmal rate of attraction to literacy is the proof of it.”—
The Problem is Not the Books by Saundra Mitchell (via albinwonderland)
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A recent scientific poll conducted through the social media site ‘Tumblr’ has determined that of all deviant homosexuals, at least 96% decided to become homosexuals for the free food, glitter, gay sex, and/or as an up-yours to presidential candidate Rick Santorum. Among female homosexuals (referred to as ‘lesbians’), 100% were in it for the boobs and supposed free toasters. More research will be required.
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