I'm working on it, people... honestly! The problem is, I'm also catching up on the news because I've spent the last couple of days driking dirty big pints of beer. I also confess, I just can't let go of Tuesday's post- there's a subtext to the Big Ho original that I find telling, and hilarious... reading between the lines, one cannot help but come to the conclusion that he'd rather watch Gerard Butler in a leather Speedo than Diana Rigg in a leather catsuit. Yeah, I thought the raison d'etre of the kick-ass female character (as the Avengers producers noted with the name of the character) was to provide a thrilling fantasy for male viewers (with GRRL Power being a side effect):
I dunno how Hawkins would feel, but when I watched that montage of scenes of Diana Rigg kicking dudes' asses, I sure as hell didn't feel feminized. Also, I have to note that it's safe to say that anyone who considers "feminized" to be a pejorative is a sorry excuse for a human being.
Damn damn damn, why won't any trolls stop by to comment?
Now, back to writing about the Large Hadron Collider, and the search for the Higgs boson... honest!
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It's weird weird weird weird weird you should bring this up today, because I was thinking about kick-butt heroines today as I standing in front of the sink doing dishes. (Good thing I was wearing socks!)
Anyway, I was just wondering if there will ever be a kick-butt heroine who is, say, plain or chunky. Or, hell, just not fabulously attractive or conforms like playdough to whatever the current silly and unrealistic beauty standards are. I don't think I'm gonna hold my breath.
I always get the feeling that the message that comes along with any attractive, proactive female character is this: "Hey, we know she's capable and competent and maybe beating men...but she's HAWT! That makes it ok, right? Right?"
Sayud-making.
Anyway, I was just wondering if there will ever be a kick-butt heroine who is, say, plain or chunky. Or, hell, just not fabulously attractive or conforms like playdough to whatever the current silly and unrealistic beauty standards are. I don't think I'm gonna hold my breath.
Mystery Men! Though the bowler is pretty hot to me...
That's a good catch...though I would argue that Janeane Garafolo is really really really pretty. To me at least.
Um yeah.
I don't care if you're a 12,000,000 on the Kinsey Scale. A man who feels feminized when exposed to Mrs. Peel, that man needs to see the doctor STAT. Because, Phooaaar!
A man who thinks Our Lady of the Cat Suit could cause another man to feel feminized, that man has just admitted he has No Male Friends. Because She's a Brick, Hooooouse. Also.
Anyway, I was just wondering if there will ever be a kick-butt heroine who is, say, plain or chunky.
Chunky Reese Witherspoon as superheroine?
I had an idea about a plain-Jane assassin who used her very ordinary appearance to lure her victims into a false sense of security before "WHAMMO!" This was inspired by sitting across from a very mild-seeming girl on the subway, and composing a "secret biography" for her in my head... curare knitting needles OF DOOM!!!!
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