Female Super-Hero Characters and Sex: Creators Explain How Comics Can Do Better
“Imagine you have a daughter. Imagine the kind of women you’d like her to want to grow up to be. Write them. Write women you’d want to be friends — really good friends — with. Write women you’d get in arguments with. Write women you’d be legitimately scared of. Write women like your mom, like your aunts, like your wife, like your friends, like your nieces and nephews and daughters and bosses and friends. We are not aliens… This, too, goes back to “doing things.” A lot of the time, male characters act, and female characters are acted upon. Let female characters make difficult choices — and sometimes choose wrong — and have struggles and the same real victories. Because without those things, they’re not characters; they’re just window dressing.”
An excerpt from “Female Super-Hero Characters and Sex: Creators Explain How Comics Can Do Better”. This was a really good read. I mean, there’s little to like about mainstream comics as it is; creators could really benefit from taking a look at those off the beaten path.
Female Super-Hero Characters and Sex: Creators Explain How Comics Can Do Better
“Imagine you have a daughter. Imagine the kind of women you’d like her to want to grow up to be. Write them. Write women you’d want to be friends — really good friends — with. Write women you’d get in arguments with. Write women you’d be legitimately scared of. Write women like your mom, like your aunts, like your wife, like your friends, like your nieces and nephews and daughters and bosses and friends. We are not aliens… This, too, goes back to “doing things.” A lot of the time, male characters act, and female characters are acted upon. Let female characters make difficult choices — and sometimes choose wrong — and have struggles and the same real victories. Because without those things, they’re not characters; they’re just window dressing.”
An excerpt from “Female Super-Hero Characters and Sex: Creators Explain How Comics Can Do Better”. This was a really good read. I mean, there’s little to like about mainstream comics as it is; creators could really benefit from taking a look at those off the beaten path.
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