We [Fraction and his wife, Kelly Sue DeConnick] were pregnant at the time, and while I was out there I started to realize that if I had a daughter, there would come a day when I would have to apologize to her for my profession. I would have to apologize for the way it treats and speaks to women readers, and the way it treats its female characters.
I knew that if we had a daughter, because I know my wife and I know the kind of girl she wants to raise and I know the kind of girl I want to raise, she was going to look at what I did for a living and want to know how the fuck I could stomach it. How could I sell her out like that?” Fraction continued. “That conversation is still coming, and I’m bracing for it in the way that some dads brace for their daughter’s first date or boyfriend. I became acutely aware that I had sort of done that thing that lots of privileged hetero cisgendered white dudes do. ‘I’m cool with women, and that’s enough.’ It’s not enough. It’s embarrassing to say, because we somehow have attached shame to learning and evolving our opinions, culturally, but I became aware that there was a deficiency of and to women in my work, and all I could do at that moment was take care of my side of the street.
– Writer Matt Fraction on his role on expanding the profile of female characters in the Marvel Universe. (via goodmanw)(Source: comicbookresources.com)
Via Yup.
Driving sleepy to work… Barely got any zzzz’s due to scary trip to kitty hospital in the middle of the night. #concernedparents
I’m just gonna look at this all day, alrighty? The cuteness… it’s overwhelming.
This is something that happened to a friend of mine in her own words.
“So, on Friday night my friend and I were at her house and wanted to get out and do something for the evening. We brainstormed ideas and she brought up the idea of seeing a show at the Laugh Factory. I’d never been, I thought…
Reporter: I have a question to Robert and to Scarlett. Firstly to Robert, throughout Iron Man 1 and 2, Tony Stark started off as a very egotistical character but learns how to fight as a team. And so how did you approach this role, bearing in mind that kind of maturity as a human being when it comes to the Tony Stark character, and did you learn anything throughout the three movies that you made?
And to Scarlett, to get into shape for Black Widow did you have anything special to do in terms of the diet, like did you have to eat any specific food, or that sort of thing?
Scarlett: How come you get the really interesting existential question, and I get the like, “rabbit food” question?
The respect given to you if you’re a man in the entertainment business, and the respect given to you if you’re a woman in the entertainment business: all perfectly summed up in one idiotically thought out line of questioning.You know, I always did like Scarlett Johannson.
Dat side-eye.
Let me just hug you forever Miss Johannson.
Scarlett Johansson gives the best side-eye.
Against my better judgment, I am listening to the most recent WTF podcast with guest Diablo Cody. Marc and Diablo are talking about how out-of-touch they are with “real people” because they live in Los Angeles and this entire conversation is making me want to stick my head in a blender.
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About Me
I love to read. I’m a newlywed. I get cranky when I need a snack. I love road trips. NYC and Baltimore are my favorite cities. I overthink nearly everything. I fight verbosity daily. I’m addicted to academia. I love my alone time but also love time with my friends. I could never own too many pairs of Mary Janes. I have an unnatural attachment to my laptop. I’m not a fan of big surprises, but I do love little ones. I start too many sentences with the first person pronoun.I blog at Bookish Penguin.
