cruelty is so easy. youre not special for choosing it
"The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain."
-Ursula K. LeGuin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
Diana: “…And yet, here we are.”
Clark: “So much beauty…it hurts.”
THIS IS JUST SO CUTE!!!! 🥰
Absolutely love how beautifully this is written and drawn!
Wonder Woman 800
Written by Michael W. Conrad & Becky Cloonan
Drawn by Jen Bartel
Beautiful! It's stuff like this why we ship them.
Adam Hughes - Power Girl
Anonymous asked:
It's nice whenever men open up about issues they may or may not have locked up inside for a long, long time. The world should head in that direction, worldwide.
I resist the urge to groan when they say they're better than preexisting MRAs. "That aren't trying to silence innocent women!" because female MRAs don't exist... ... ...
Thoughts?
I'm not in the business of taking credit, but one of the things I strongly advocate for, and that I try to spread day after day, is caring about men for men's own sake, because that alone is a good enough reason to care.
When the subject of "I'm doing [thing MRAs have been talking about for years], but I'm not like those icky MRAs" comes up, I think of things like The Good Men Project, a transparently intersectional-feminist attempt to capture this discussion. Take this Ask An Ally column, an example I just pulled out randomly from searching their website for 2 minutes.
There's a lot of therapy-talk in here that frankly I wouldn't use for this discussion if given the choice, but in broad strokes, I agree with what's being said here! This is all good stuff to talk about!
And then it pulls the rug out from under you.
It's not that any of this is wrong, per se, but it betrays the fact that the person responding to the question doesn't actually care about men for men's sake, but for women's sake. And sure, wanting to reduce domestic violence done to women is a noble goal, but we need at least some people to care about men for men's sake, you know? Otherwise we're reinforcing yet another harmful stereotype of the True Male, which is that a man's greatest and perhaps only worth is protecting women from harm. This never occurs to people like The Good Men Project because they only care about men insofar as they care about the wellbeing of the women around men.
So when people go out of their way to say "I'm not like those icky MRAs", I think about how stagnant and unmoving the conversation around men's issues would be. I think about how many people over the past few years have, one way or another, broken out of that Good Men Project mindset and started appreciating men as men, not as some kind of accessory to people who really matter.
And sometimes I feel like I might have made a difference after all, even if that difference goes unnoticed and disavowed.
Zack Snyder's Justice League
Reblogged the previous post on my main Tumblr because I had it on my old one, which I stupidly deleted, because a morning discussion on Twitter regarding the SMWW v. L&C fandom stuff brought this post back to mind,
Anonymous asked:
Why do you hate Lois Lane?
Where on this blog did you get that idea? Unless your logic equates our loving the pairing of Diana with Clark to hate of Lois Lane. All we can say is…huh??? Do you go troll other shipping blogs who ship what they like or is this reserved only for us?
Here’s a little suggestion…if you will consider it. You might want to realize there is this thing called fiction. People respond differently to it. What you love you might want to spend time celebrating that. It works for us.
Why do I hate Lois Lane? Why, my dear Anonymous, it’s really very simple:
1. Your girl, in the Golden Age, went out of her way to screw Clark over in ways ranging from trying to get him fired to trying to drug him.
2. Your girl, in the Max Fleischer cartoons, was fond of screwing him out of assignments as often as possible.
3. Your girl, in the Kirk Alyn serials, went so far as to GET HIM FALSELY ARRESTED in order to screw him out of assignments.
4. Your girl, in Richard Donner’s version of Superman II, tried to expose him in front of the entire Daily Planet staff (no regard for his feelings or for the safety of her co-workers) and manipulated him into exposing himself by threatening his life.
5. Your girl, the the theatrical version of Superman II, openly admitted that she was too selfish and jealous to accept his life as Superman, guaranteeing they had no future together.
6. Your girl, in the Iron Age comics:
- happily exposed Perry White’s son as being mixed up with Intergang despite being warned about the public humiliation Perry would suffer, bragged about getting a Pulitzer for it, and lectured an uderstandably upset Perry about journalistic integrity.
- engaged in a rebound romance with the ever-so-sleazy Jeb Friedman within seconds of Superman being entombed, only breaking it off when Superman conveniently resurfaced and ultimately carrying on a flirtation/heavily implied affair with Jeb even after Clark was back in the game. (Ron Frenz, who drew some of the issues in question, confirmed Lois and Jeb were hooking up when I met him at Motor City Comic Con some years back.)
- dumping Clark for being Superman, getting with Jeb, blaming Clark (in some stories, anyway) for Jeb’s “tragic” death and refusing to marry Clark because he was Superman. (They only reason you got the marriage at all was because DC broke their contract with Lois & Clark and WB put their foot down.)
- continued being emotionally abusive to Clark on and off during their marriage, to the point of homicidal, insane jealousy over not only Wonder Woman, but ALL of Clark’s female friends and peers, publicly humiliating Lana Lang over her divorce and accusing Clark of cheating with the women in the JLA when the Cir-El Supergirl showed up.
- tried to dump Clark following “Our Worlds at War” because he tried to help stop Imperiex from wiping out Themyscira instead of babysitting her Luthor-flunky dad, who faked his death and wound up doing even worse to Clark later on. Worst of all, she did so under the pretense of going on vacation with her mother and left Clark “Dear John” messages and wrote journal entries about how much she hated him for not leaving Wonder Woman and her people to die.
- flat-out admitted to the above in Jeph Loeb’s Dracula issue, where they were both forced to admit exactly how they felt about each other (self-righteous arrogance from Lois, unresolved pain from Clark).
- gave a co-worker at a TV gig all sorts of belligerence and bad attitude for the horrible act of…trying to shut off her cell phone so it wouldn’t interfere with an interview she was conducting.
- flat-out refused to accept evidence clearing Ray Palmer of Sue Dibny’s murder in the Trinity weekly series, bashing the forensic team as incompetents and vowing to pin the crime on Ray no matter what.
- was a total rampaging bitch in Superman Returns, being unspeakably rude to a flight attendant for no reason, mouthing off at Perry White when she couldn’t get her way, treating her nice-guy fiance like a cold fish, and casually endangering the life of her son with nary a second thought.
Lois Lane is a thoroughly vile, unlikeable character. No amount of fan worship or corporate pimping is going to change that. I have to like and respect any character who’s going to be a love interest for Superman, and Lois is the exact opposite of that. Dale Arden from Flash Gordon? That’s a female character I like and respect. Abigail Tennyson from Love & Capes? That’s a character I like and respect. Mary Jane Watson from the Spider-Man mythos? That’s a character I like and respect (and who got shafted beyond belief by “One More Day/BrandNew Day”). Selina Kyle/Catwoman? I love that character to pieces, especially the Julie Newmar and Adrienne Barbeau versions, and can’t imagine Batman with anyone else. Lois Lane has none of the qualities that make the above ladies likable, engaging, and appealing. She’s everything I loathe about fictional characters of any gender: the obnoxious,arrogant jerk you’re expected to glorify regardless of how awful they are.
Does that answer the question?