if you need me to be sweet...

1. Where's my goddamn blizzard? I suspect there are a lot of weathermen with egg on their faces right now. That 14 inches has not appeared since I went to bed.

2. BBC America has been showing Silent Witness, which is the MEs, lots of bodies, and mysteries. And, yes, people yell at Leo for doing shit he shouldn't. It's quite a lovely show, if I had to, I'd say it's a little like a cross between Foyle's War, Touching Evil and Midsommer Murders. The commercials amuse the hell out of me, since they say things like "more character depth than CSI!" and, well, watching paint dry has more character depth than CSI. It's fairly graphic in what it shows, though nowhere near as much as, say, Celebrity Deathmatch.

3. Which, really, why didn't I know they were still producing new episodes of CDM? They're kinda crap in that I don't know ANY of the people on them. But, but... NEW EPISODES with clay people beating each other up and ripping out intestines!

4. In reading old Wildcats books, from the early early 90's, I have discovered a few things. Wildcats women may have dressed in skintight costumes that showed off their assets, but you did NOT piss them off. Voodoo started out as a stripper, sure. But she also mind-frakked a Coda into killing herself. Void is the manifestation of an Orb in the form of a dead astronaut, I'm not sure she actually knows the meaning of clothes. Zealot... Seriously. Zealot. I don't think you can get more kickass than Zealot. She could give Kara Thrace lessons in emo womanpain. She could also destroy a basestar all on her own. This is not to say that really crap books didn't happen, with incredibly bad and T&A art. (I tried reading Skin Trade, the art is... so bad) But, in general, these women could hand you your ass on a platter.

4b. The men were just as badly-drawn and exploited. My roommate can tell you how many times I cackled in glee when Spartan lost his shirt (seriously, there was one bit where he's fixing their airplane... practically naked! wtf, Spartan, did you have a thing going with that plane?). It was a lot. I'm sure Warblade did, too, but I can't stand him so I tried not to pay attention to him. And he and Maul stripped, at one point. Let's not talk about the painfully large muscles all of the men possess.

5. In modern-day Wildstorm, the women are backsliding. I read an issue of Post Human Division, with a "girls night out", and felt like I was watching a really bad 80's chick flick. Because it's SO HARD to be a female superhero these days. It's not, y'know, later than 1950, and the men still treat them like fragile flowers. Really. */sarcasm* Apparently, Lifetime has taken over the female characters in Wildstorm.

6. I have a work-rant brewing. Suffice it to say, don't treat me like a fucking idiot.

7. Folds, entrance... these are almost worse than flowery euphemisms.

8. Hrm. Hungry.

So, anyway.... Comicfangirls

The other night, my rooommate was bitching about the lack of actual, comics-related discussion on comicfangirls. So, me, being the generous, accomodating roommate I am, cleaned up my BSG and Atlantis reviews, tacked on some stuff about PHD, and posted.

I am now regretting having posted. And not, as some might thing, because of my lack of replies.

No, I'm regretting having posted, because it means that when I noticed, in skimming to see if there were other comics-related discussions, I discovered that someone had posted a questionnaire to the community, asking such things as, "Have you lost your virginity?" and "Are you over- or under- weight?" ... Now, I assumed, from the replies, that comicfangirls, being the bastion of Feminisim that it is, would reply with mockery and trolling, and possibly a lot of, "what relevance does this have?"

This is, after all, the community that was up in arms over the treatment of women in Sin City (they might have been fetishized, but at least they didn't roll over and give up personal information to some unknown guy on the internet).

Imagine my surprise when every. single. reply. was from some girl telling this guy all of the information he asked. There was no questioning, there was no mockery, there were no cries for the mods to delete this wholly inappropriate post. Not only that, the post got linked on metafandom, and women from THERE answered the questions.

And here's where I say, I wish I hadn't posted the other night.

Because I posted a general message to the community, barely restraining myself from calling them sheep. Sadly, I'm sure they all think I'm just having a fit because no one replied to me.

Which, no, I'm having a fit, 'cause you're all fucking sheep, and pretty much proving that girls as comic fans? Are not smart, and thus, the companies are still going to ignore us.

,,,,

BSG: These are not the characters you're looking for.

No. Seriously. I'm watching the show, and, so far? I don't know who these people are, but they're not the ones that were on my tv last week. Or the week before. Or the week before that. They're definitely not the ones who were on the show at the beginning of the season.

SFS: The I want an Archie Goodwin edition

Dresden: She was really hot. Can I have one?
BSG: Our Issues Were Once Again Pastede On Yay.
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