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[redbrunja]

I never say no to this meme.

gacked from leobrat and earnmysong:

Please ask me questions about my OTPs in the comments! Any questions! All questions! Deep questions! Silly questions! Ship questions. (It doesn't even really have to be OTPs. Basically, anything you know I have ever shipped. And maybe even anything I haven't. And, let's be serious, I could talk about certain adorable dorks for freaking ever, so let me do that. Okay? Okay.)

Comments

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Not applicable. I don’t ship slash, so that knocks out everyone but Rogue, Storm, Jean Grey, Sue Storm, Eletkra, technically Pepper, and Natasha. None of these women interact with other ladies, so. (And I don’t do crossovers.)

[errant-shadows.livejournal.com]

I don't know if it's more tragic that LGBT characters are woefully under-represented in a canon context, or that female superheroes are - and forget breaking the Bechdel test.

Oh, and you forgot Helen Slater in the 1983 movie Supergirl. And Catwoman. Even though they suck (beyond belief) they technically count...?

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

I also forgot Nolan-verse Catwoman, who I LOVED.

[errant-shadows.livejournal.com]

I did like her - I'm a fan of Anne Hathaway in general - but I have issues with the Nolan movies. The storylines were way too fractured to focus on a cohesive plot and the Catwoman thing kind of got swept away in all of that. I think the whole thing would have worked much better if they'd focussed on fewer elements, but devoted more time to developing them. Sure, the potential for something was there all along, but it was like the writers couldn't be bothered doing anything with it until they chucked the Bat/Cat romance at the viewers at the very end.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

The more I think about the Nolan movies, the more I’m frustrated with them. I try to block out everything that wasn’t Selina slinking about being a hundred times more awesome than everyone else.

[nocturnalrites.livejournal.com]

I'm going to vote for the females, and it has nothing to do with a lack of respect for the plight of the LGBT characters.

We're 50 percent of the population and we have HOW many top tier superheroines?

One. Wonder Woman. Thank you, DC -- sort of, since they do their best to slight her whenever they can. (*cough cough Gal Gadot cough cough*)

It's not that there aren't a lot of superheroines -- even strong ones -- but they're usually supporting roles of some sort. Heck, look at all the superhero movies out there. How many superheroine ones? And how seriously did they take them? I mean, Halle Berry's Catwoman...ugh.

(BTW, I agree with the two of you -- I did like Hathaway's Catwoman. I also stand in the minority of actually liking Michelle Pfeiffer's Catwoman, mostly because I tend to like conflicted characters, and she certainly was that.)

What really gets me is that whenever the topic of superheroines come up, the first thing that gets people irate is the issue of costumes and/or skin. Personally, I wish there'd be that level of outrage about the actual *roles* these women play, and not with what they're wearing. Worry about the costume *after* you've gotten people to take them seriously, IMO. It's as if they actually think that as long as they've got the superheroines tastefully dressed and completely covered, we women are dumb enough to overlook the fact that they're still relegated to holding up a wall. Grr.