Some well put thoughts on popular culture for the weekend follow.

-I want “Owning Her Sexuality” to mean something other than “Hooker”.

-I want “Sexy” to mean something other than “In possession of a perpetual ‘come fuck me’ pose and pout.”

-I want “For Women/Girls” to mean something other than, “Holy shit! There’s a bandwagon! Let’s put on our blindfolds and jump for it!”

-I want the suggestion of an all encompassing list of ‘comics to get one’s girlfriend interested in comics’ to be summarily laughed off of every message board on the internet.

-I want to see different body types.

-I want to see different body types for the Good Guys.

-I want to see more than just a lone, Poster Girl on the creative roster, and as something other than editor.

What Do Women Want?

Hear, hear! More feedback to the comic industry in What Do Women Want? by Lisa Jonte.

I’m not concerned here about whether 300 could be interpreted as pro-Iraq-War propaganda, which, well, maybe it could and maybe it couldn’t. Here’s an interesting fact for you: the Nazis made historical propaganda films for their own people that they couldn’t show in Poland or Czechoslovakia because of the danger that the Poles or Czechs would identify the “bad guys” with the Germans and not with the British. These films were made intentionally as pro-German, anti-British propaganda, but the nature of fiction is such that there was room for the opposite interpretation — room for a Polish cinemagoer to read the story as supporting their own country’s resistance movement against the Germans. Without having seen 300, it’s impossible to say whether it’s likely to come across to the kind of audience it’s likely to have as being pro-war. That it celebrates bloodshed and manly warriors beating the living crud out of each other does not surprise me; that it apparently manages to be more gynophobic than the original comic must surely rank as some kind of achievement. But that is something that others who are angrier and more articulate than I am can verbally eviscerate the filmmakers for. I’m not concerned with that here.

300, the movie: in which a lily is gilded

Read what Katherine does concern herself with regarding 300, the movie based on Frank Miller’s comic book of the same name, in 300, the movie: in which a lily is gilded.