god-damned cold.

[lyssie]

1. Remember, only boys like superheroes and action movies. Girls just want dollies and Julia Roberts romantic comedies.

2. I don't know where it was anymore, but I was following links around Metafandom and came across a commenter claiming it's totally ok for Skiffy to not try courting female audiences, because women only watch Lifetime and E! and etc., and besides, women will watch anything and it's only men that advertisers like.... The disappointing thing was not a single person was disagreeing with the idiot.

3. DO YOU PEOPLE REALIZE THAT IN ONE WEEK AND ONE DAY I WILL HAVE NEW KARA AND SAM ON MY TV?

4. It is possible I want to be Maddy Magellan when I grow up.

Comments

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

Indeed. Pity I still can't kill people with my brain. *sigh*

[mtgat]

The author goes on in the comments section to claim that Buffy was not a successful series, but a "niche show," and to dismiss every example the commenters had of women enjoying females with superpowers and performing superheroic deeds. Because they don't count.

Clearly, not only is Josh Tyler from the planet Stupid, he is actually the long-lost king of that world.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

Seven years (two with an up in their production money) totally doesn't count as successful.

I bet he doesn't know what a crown is for.

[jim-smith.livejournal.com]

1) Why would anybody think that only men like superheroes?

2) Why would anybody think that men only like male superheroes?

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

I suspect it's an overly-simplistic view.

[fangirljen.livejournal.com]

1. Somebody's gonna get castrated tonight.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

Even if only from his buddies, who will be like, "dude, stfu, you're making the women go away."

[scifiaddict86.livejournal.com]

First off who wants to take bets on this asshat being single?
Second thanks I haven't had a complete idiot to rant at in ages

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

HAH. No bet, he has to be. Or he is now.

You're welcome. *g*

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Re: #1:

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I love how the intro is "let me explain to these two women who like superheroes how normal women don't like superheroes."

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

ilu. *cracks up*

[nicole-anell.livejournal.com]

That sums it all up. <3

[hecatesknickers.livejournal.com]

1) ...

2) See #1

3) I AM ALTERNATING BETWEEN GLEE AND UTTER SADNESS.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

3. I KNOW OMG.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

Perhaps we could share? hrm.

[musicforcylons.livejournal.com]

WITH A FORK! WITH A FORK! WITH A FORK!










ALSO, PIZZA OVEN!














(there were so many capslock already here I just joined in. Random and completely off topic, but it's been that kinda day and I figure you're kinda used to me by now.)(Though, I will say, person in that link needs...well, we'll start with swift kick and possibly end with a fork.</small)

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

The pizza oven is, you must admit, an upgrade (or is that a sidegrade?) from a copier.

[redstarrobot.livejournal.com]

1. Remember, only boys like superheroes and action movies. Girls just want dollies and Julia Roberts romantic comedies.

THIS IS WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS, LYSSIE.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

I KNOW. Can we sic Cally on him? She would so kick his ass without laying a finger, leaving him a drooling hulk with the power of her mind. Then she'd go blow something up. Possibly with Travis.

[frolicndetour.livejournal.com]

1. Sorry. I need a little rocket launcher in my Party of Five. :P

2. The disappointing thing was not a single person was disagreeing with the idiot.

But of course if they'd said, "I'm not entirely sure if pedophile incest-rape RPS is entirely nifty" they'd be all over hir. Oh, Metafandom.

3. I WANT THEM TO HUG AT LEAST ONE MORE TIME, LYSSIE.

4. Who?

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

1. yes pls. And, hell, I even like lots and lots of 'girly' things. BUT DAMMIT. Gimme my women with guns and splosions!

3. I WILL BE DEVASTATED IF THEY DO NOT.

4. Obscure British show called Jonathan Creek. Maddy is... obnoxious and gutsy and awesome in non-violent ways.

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

Wow; 1. is truly bizarre. I mean, do they think that all those women in the Batman audience were just there because they were dragged by their boyfriends?

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

Obviously, they were being forced to watch it because forcing women to watch man things is acceptable.... Or something...

[curlyjo1.livejournal.com]

Does the guy writing that know any women or is he just talking about the ones you see on TV in shows like Sex and the City or the romantic comedies? Grrr.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

I suspect they are one-dimensional women who only exist in magazines he bought TOTALLY for the articles.

[stexgirl2000.livejournal.com]

#1 -- that guy is a total tool. Hopefully Karma will come back to bite his ass--in the form of NEVER getting laid because he's such a sexist ass.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

I hope he tries that line on some woman he's hoping to score with and she punches him.

[scifiaddict86.livejournal.com]

I may have to settle for sending this guy a nasty e-mail as the site has yet to send me the e-mail that would allow me to activate my acount and argue with this idiot publicly. I am sensing a conspiracy and I have a great argument. My reply is only getting better and meaner the longer they keep me out anyway so their really not doing themselves any favors

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

Awww. You are lovely and wonderful for even wanting to send him emails and arguments, though.

[quietdarkness.livejournal.com]

Yeah, if my husband is in a superhero movie, it's because *I* drug him into it. This guy IS from Planet Stupid. Either that, or this is his way of getting chicks to write to him.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

*comes back to actually post comment, now she's found her Space Hussies icon*

ahem.

AHAHAHAH. You know you only edit/writefor/run/tyrant a comcbook/media magazine because your husband asked you to. Tsk.

I bet you'd much rather be writing a cooking magazine. Or something about wedding dresses.

*runs like hell*

[ellestra.livejournal.com]

1. Have he been in the cinema lately on any superhero/action movies? Did he think all those people looking like women are transvestites? On the other hand women superheroes get so badly mistreated in movies it's hard to watch.

2. And men only watch sport and news. So who's watching sci-fi?

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

1. No! They were simply pressured to be there by their men. Or something.

As to the second thing, it depends on what you consider a superhero.

Aeon Flux and the Bride (Kill Bill) both spring to mind as decently-treated heroines (ok, The Bride was left for dead and there's lots of violence and such. But she's not running around in skin-tight non-existent spandex, she's wearing a sort of bulky and probably far more comfy track suit in a hideous shade of yellow).

Kill Bill is panned in a lot of places, from what I saw on Jezebel.

And Aeon Flux gets ignored or is 'too wierd' or something. I don't get most of the objections to AF, given the story is ALL ABOUT a woman, and her sister. And her friend, Sithandra. And two of the other main characters are women, as well (Trevor's bodyguard and the woman who assigns their tasks).

2. GNOMES. Obvsly. ;]