I'm done, too.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

26. That actually wasn't a joke.

There was a big kerfuffle over the way in which an 'alternate issue one' spiderwoman cover was drawn a few days back. For some reason, a lot of folks thought that was an important enough issue to fight over that a lot of anger and taunting went back and forth among the participants.

I think there are a lot bigger battles to fight in the war on cultural misogyny, and that that particular one wasn't helpful in changing how feminism is viewed on DU, much less the wider world. rq even posted another diary about it I saw pop up on the list again just this morning, with a picture of how it 'could have been drawn instead', and I think most comic book readers wouldn't have cared or even noticed whether it was drawn as originally, or in the 'hawkeye initiative-approved' way.

When you're fighting to even get people to notice misogyny is a problem in society, I think it's more helpful to focus on the more obvious fights, rather than those involving a change of 10 or 20 degrees of angle of a drawn character's rear end. Get people to recognize the more blatant problems, and you can slowly get them to recognize more and more subtle problems. Start with subtle ones, and you end up just getting more people set against you.