I'm sure making a blog while I'm half brain-dead from general sleepiness will turn out wonderfully.
Since I last posted some things with relevance to drag happened; I attended a drawing class this past Wednesday where I introduced myself using the masculine version of my name, "Li". This is the first time I've ever tried this, and I haven't tried it before because I still live with my parents and even have to still be chauffeured around by them. Up to this point I've mainly been trying to avoid "Your daughter Li..." occasions, which would turn out pretty awkwardly for me.
That and my school isn't the kind of place you can attend for three years, then walk in one day and say "I'd like to go by a manly version of my name now" without a similar outcome.
So yeah, it felt good to at least try it out. I'm sure many people care about my life, so I thought I'd share it.
IN OTHER NEWS, I thought I'd counter my first post, in which I dissed on womankind in general, with a post in which I list women I think are actually pretty badass.
Mother Teresa
The Virgin Mary
Mary (In Plain Sight)
Manamaraya (Soothsayer of Pontis)
Lisbeth (The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo)
Mother Teresa and the Virgin Mary I have respect for mostly out of cultural reasons. Mother Teresa, in particular, strikes me(even though I know little to nothing about her) as a powerfully loving woman. The kind of woman who got up in the morning, put food out for the stray cats, and spent her day at the local soup kitchen, and spent every minute of her day attempting to serve the Lord and make people's lives better, regardless of her own. Not because it was the "Christian" thing to do. But because she truly, deeply enjoyed it. You don't get "Christian" by telling people how to fix themselves, and you don't sit there and wait for God's hand to move your heart. You go out there and you start doing things, and the "Christianness" becomes a by-product. Mother Teresa was a monumental example of this, and she accomplished great things in her day despite being a woman. People took her seriously. They still take her seriously.
As for virgin Mary, well. She faced some pretty deep shit. Getting pregnant in her day by anyone other than your husband was a huge no-no, and if Joseph had been any less than a pretty damn cool guy, Mary would have been stoned to death. Not likely would have been, not probably would have been--she would be dead. And despite that risk, she didn't run off and hide somewhere, she didn't freak out and tell God to take his baby somewhere else. She faced certain death and being disowned by her family, which in those days, for a woman, pretty much meant you were gutter meat. And she didn't even end up in that position through irresponsibility or sleeping around. She "followed the book", she "played by the rules" and she ended up in a hugely unfair situation. But she didn't blame anyone for it, and she didn't get bitter about it. She went on faith and saw it through. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have been able to do that.
Mary from In Plain Sight, the tv show, is just a hardcore woman. Despite having hair the colour of sweetcorn, which in TV these days is usually the mark of horror movie fodder or whathaveyou, she goes forth and conquers while dealing with a seriously mucked up home life that goes beyond the idea of an impossible balancing act. Nothing in Mary's life is balanced. Her world is falling apart at the seams, and the only way she holds it together is by constantly slapping more and more duct-tape on it while dishing out scathing sarcasm and derogatory labels to her ditzy younger sister(horror movie fodder in a nutshell) and her impossible alcoholic mother(people who keep up with the series know that lately her mother is now attempting to stay off the alcohol, and things have improved somewhat.) Mary reminds me distinctly of Sil, my own character, who's pretty dysfunctional and kick-ass in her own ways. Both of them fuck up a lot, they hurt the people they care a lot, but at the end of the day they'll take a bullet to put down a bad guy(and they'd rather do that than apologize to said loved ones)and they'll do their best to fix said fuckups(preferably without apologizing, but maybe if there's no other way. Maybe.)
I gotta wrap this up, cause my popcorn's getting cold and I have homework to finish--GAH. THAT ESSAY. DUE THIS WEEK. FOUR PAGES. FFFFFF--so I'll excuse my hasty summaries of the last two by explaining that pretty much my only follower is a Scaly Bastard in California who throws a hissy fit if I ruin any literary or media experience for him ever by telling him ANYTHING ABOUT IT AT ALL.
Manamaraya somehow manages to be badass despite totally using her body to manipulate men whenever she can, having been bullied out of her job(in her world, basically commander of her entire country's military) by her husband, and desperately resorting to bringing in a soothsayer from the slums(also a MAN) to try and freak said husband into not running their city into the ground anymore. And she's STILL. AWESOME. I don't know how she does it, I really don't. And then later*SPOILER ALERT* she apparently, like, VIOLATES HER HUSBAND as one of her ongoing revenge schemes(not like really rape, I don't think Mana's one to give it to a guy in the ass, but still) among other awesome badassery.
So yeah.
You can read part one here: http://manamaraya.deviantart.com/gallery/12560041#/d2ltp52
The author is an amateur writer on her own part, but it's still pretty damn good. Some misplaced commas, and she has a habit of inserting "--" in places that throw off the flow, but she's extremely open to critique, so she's always improving.
Aaaand Lisbeth. She's just badass in all forms. She may be even closer to Sil than Mary. I can't really say much, because of aforementioned Scaly Bastard, but this is a heroine that truly kicks ass. I don't mean like that one time in the movie where she pulls a few fancy moves and puts down a few henchmen and still ends up needing to get saved by Mr. Man at the end. I mean Lisbeth will stare down the barrel at you and two seconds later your eyeball is hanging out of its socket and your gun is up your ass, and she's carving Swedish insults into your back with her pocketknife. That is the kind of kickassery we are dealing with when it comes to Lisbeth.
THAT DOESN'T ACTUALLY HAPPEN, MEK, I JUST PULLED IT OUT OF MY ASS AS AN EXAMPLE. SO THERE.
NOW I WILL SAY SOMETHING THAT DID ACTUALLY HAPPEN SO YOU CAN SKIP IT.
SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER
And what I really love most about Lisbeth is that SHE'S the one who's always saving the GUY. Or herself. The only time he ever had to "save" her was after she'd already dealt with the bad guys(WITH AN AXE. AFTER CRAWLING OUT OF A GRAVE. THAT SHE SPENT THE NIGHT IN. AFTER GETTING SHOT IN THE STOMACH. AND PUNCHED IN THE FACE A LOT.)and was seriously about an inch from death.
I have such a serious mancrush on this woman. Like you don't even.
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Women can't do shit.
Feminism is a GOOD thing.
Yeah, this is gonna be one of THOSE blogs. And if you're that kind of guy who looks at the word feminism, rolls his eyes, and kicks off, then go ahead and piss off, bitch. Either you've got a problem with a woman bringing up a subject you aren't comfortable with or you're too ignorant to bother understanding the actual definition of feminism first and buy into the social stereotype that half of it is lesbians, another part is ugly women who just hate men, and gall knows what you think the rest of it is.
Honestly, I've been wanting to do this blog for a while. Not just on stuff like gender equality, but about BEING a teenage drag king. And tonight I finally decided to do it, after watching The Social Network.
The Social Network is a movie based on the book Accidental Billionaires, which tells the story of the creators of facebook, a couple of college kids. I'm going to bypass the whole plot, which you can google at your convenience anyway, and tell you what it was in the movie that inspired me.
The women are treated like pointless shit.
Now, it's a true story. I realize this. I realize it's how they actually acted in real life.
What bothers me, and has bothered me for some time, is that women act that way in those situations because they're expected to. Because society tells them that's how women in those situations act.
For those of you still reading, I will define it for you. Just in case you can't be bothered to go look it up yourself.
fem·i·nism
[fem-uh-niz-uhm] Show IPA
–noun
1.
the doctrine advocating social, political, and all other rights of women equal to those of men.
I will now define feminist.
feminist (ˈfɛmɪnɪst)
— n
1. a person who advocates equal rights for women
These are all as defined by dictionary.com, a very useful internet resource.
I will now provide the definitions of the same words as found on urbandictionary.com, which to my understanding is the most or one of the most popular diction sites of MY generation. Meaning it's used by we young people. You know, those of us most easily influenced by our society's most powerful modes of entertainment: television, movies, music, and, dwindling in strength though it may be, I'll go ahead and tack literature on that list.
1. feminist
someone who believes the radical notion that women are people.
2. feminist
A woman (or man?) who wants equal rights for both sexes. However, in order to truly achieve EQUAL rights, chivalry (paying the bill, leaving the door open, etc...) must be banished from society as well as all those old archaic rules about women. So, to all you feminists who want equal rights, AND special treatment, I say, pick one or the other damn it.
4. Feminism
A movement that supports equal opportunities for men and women and asserts that women are entitled to the same political, social, and intellectual rights as men. As a cultural and literary movement, feminism seeks to challenge historically male-centred representations of women and identify a sovereign tradition of female cultural and literary production.
These are definitions posted by us young people, FOR us young people, AS we young people understand them.
What I WILL say for urbandictionary is that the definitions of feminism rang true, and many of them were actually long--the one see here is the shortest original post(there was another shorter one, but that was cited as being from the Merriam-Webster dictionary.)
However, take care to notice the first post on feminist.
feminist
someone who believes the radical notion that women are people.
Why is this one the first?
I don't know how this works on urbandictionary. Is there a ranking system where definitions get voted up or down? Is it based on first-come-first-served? I don't know. Either way, either it's rated highest because people think it's funny or because that's the first definition anyone thought of to post.
Let me put it simply for you, this is a bad thing.
Now I'm going to tie in what I said earlier about movies, music, and all that jazz affecting us young people.
You know what I see when I watch movies? When I read books? What I hear when I listen to music?
Women can't do shit.
Name your favourite protagonist off the top of your head, or at least your favourite actor who's played your favourite protagonists. Here's mine:
Spider Jerusalem
Batman
Hughe Jackman
Johnny Depp
Now name your favourite bands and or singers. Here's mine:
Tom Waits
30 Seconds to Mars
Smashing Pumpkins
Shinedown
And there's the greats. Maybe I don't love them, maybe I'm another Young Person who doesn't Appreciate Good Music. But here they are:
The Beatles
Elvis Presley
Led Zeppelin
ACDC
The Rolling Stones
That's just some of them. What do they all have in common?
The protagonists are men. The singers and the lead singers of these bands--hell I'm pretty sure everyone in those bands--are all male.
What's the great movies of the year?
Inception. Avatar(visually, the story was shit, but the visuals deserve a mention.) How To Train Your Dragon. The Social Network. TRON: Legacy. To name a few, all of which I've seen, and you know what all these movies have in common?
They are good movies. They have (with the exception of Avatar and Tron) good writing, good characters, and a strong story.
You know what else they have in common?
They are all male leads.
What's the last good movie you watched--the last good movie you watched that had EVERYTHING, compelling, ORIGINAL story, powerful characters, great writing, ideas that you took seriously--that had a female lead GO GO GO YOU HAVE THE NEXT TEN SECONDS--
You can't answer that question in ten seconds can you? Okay, last good movie with a MALE--
Inception.
See how easy that was? Here's why it was so hard before--not because Hollywood doesn't give women those roles. It's not Hollywood's fault. It's YOUR fault. It's the AUDIENCE'S FAULT. Why? Because Hollywood is a mere ATTENTION WHORE. It only GIVES what it KNOWS you will TAKE. What you will devour greedily with your needs for wish-fulfillment, for fantasy-appeal, for sexual objectification, for socially acceptable.
You know what makes me sad? I like fast car movies. I like gangster movies. I like people I can relate to in those movies, or at least seriously admire. And I get them. What I don't get is WOMEN in those movies that I can relate to or seriously admire.
Well, what do you expect? They're MEN'S movies.
Fuck you. They're not MEN'S movies. They aren't boy flicks. They're MY flicks too, because this is MY country too, this is MY society too, and I expect some galldamn RESPECT in the fast-car-movie and gangster-movie industry. Because if I'm going to give you my money, the least you could do is give me something BACK for it.
Well that's just tough luck. You aren't going to get that sort of thing--women are in those movies to look hot and serve as finish line prizes. In those types of movies, you just aren't going to see the hot sexy chick win the race and get to be the badass lead.
That ISN'T what I want.
Wait...what?
I don't want to see the hot slut take the wheel. I don't care about her. I'm not asking for yet ANOTHER form of objectification, if you put what society deems as a "hot chick" in the driver's seat, you're going to get another Transformer's heroine, except she's trying to pull off a lead role.
...Where are you going with this?
Where I'm going is I'm not bashing on men. Yeah, it's a man's world, I'll say that much and you can't deny it. I mean hell, women STILL aren't equal, not even on paper or legally--we STILL don't get equal pay.
I'm bashing on the women.
You take their shit and you swallow it with a smile. You get on your knees, you give him a blowjob, and you tell yourself it's sexy. It's not sexy. It's sexy to HIM. You see them objectify you in a movies, and either you tell your daughter not to watch it or you punch your boyfriend for saying it's hot. You don't ACTUALLY DO ANYTHING. Because YOU DON'T CARE. Because if you EVER had a problem with it, you were called a feminist bitch, or told to "God, loosen up, don't be such a tightass" or were given some such similar instruction in the form of an offhand phrase that was probably mildly offensive. And you TOOK IT. And now you BELIEVE IT'S OKAY.
Men rule the world, but it's because YOU LET THEM. You let the millionaire snuff crack off your ten-pounds-underweight ribcage, you striptease on the coffee table during highschool/college parties, you show your breasts at spring break, you give him head in his car. And you do it now because you think you enjoy it. You did it the first time because That Guy told you you'd enjoy it, or it'd be hot, or because your girl friend told you it would be, and she would know, because she knows what guys want. It's about what guys want. Movies are about what guys want. Music is about what guys want. TV is vastly about what guys want. The internet is vastly about what guys want.
...are you going to get around to the part about what you WANT out of all this?
Yeah. I want a fast-car movie about two women who take care of themselves, watch out for their bros, and have hot guys stripteasing on their cars who will ultimately serve no purpose to the plot other than to be sexy. I want a gangster movies about a group of women who shoot up the bank and go to a bar where they're entertained by hot stripper guys who will never be seen again throughout the rest of the movie. I want a woman dragon rider, I want a woman warrior, I want a woman I CAN TAKE SERIOUSLY. I want a woman EVERYONE CAN TAKE SERIOUSLY.
Everyone remembers the Batman, the Superman, the Spiderman movies. Not because they had great actors. Really, in my opinion, the only superhero movies that have had "great" actors would be the X-men movies(Hughe Jackman) and the Batman movies(Christian Bale). Because people take the MEN seriously.
How many people even KNOW there is a Catwoman movie? Aside from horny comic geeks and the occasional movie enthusiast?
Do you know why that isn't a good movie? The actress isn't too bad. Her male lead isn't too bad. But the story? The character?
THEY WEREN'T TAKEN SERIOUSLY.
They turned catwoman into a rooftop-leaping stripper. Her outfits are ridiculous. They provide absolutely no protection, and they have gaps in vital places--like her CHEST, and her STOMACH. You know, places you'd want to protect MOST in a fight? From things like guns? So yes, the obvious purpose is just to make her look hot.
Excuse me? Why don't I get my superhero men running around shirtless? I get maybe one scene of them per movie topless while they're changing or something. One. One scene. Comic geeks, or anyone who may randomly download Catwoman off the internet(probably on accident)gets most of the movie to eye her out in prostitute getup.
What about the spandex, you may ask. Well, Superman was invulnerable, and besides, you don't really SEE anything in that. Batman ended up in super-reinforced-nylon or something like that with bits of actual armour. Ironman goes without saying. And Spiderman? I don't even know, I think I was nodding off in that part. Or maybe I just didn't care.
And as for the STORY of Catwoman? Well, Batman had to deal with FEAR ITSELF. In Batman Begins of 2005, his archnemesis uses fear to control people, basically. Superman--the traditional Lex Luthor+misc bad guy deal. Spiderman--the Goblin, the Hobgoblin, Sandman, Venom, all supervillains, along with serious personal issues in his life. Ironman had to deal with enemies of his company--the biggest of which turned out to be his closest confidant in the business who ultimately betrayed him.
Catwoman? She had a makeup company trying to kill her. Because the makeup secretly ate faces in like 10% of trials or something and was still going on the market.
FUCKING. MAKEUP. That was Catwoman's antagonist.
You know what most people don't even know? Catwoman's not a hero. First and foremost, she's a thief. She steals stuff, and it's COOL that she gets away with it because SHE GETS AWAY WITH IT DESPITE BATMAN. Yeah. Seeing the movie, you wouldn't even know that she was associated with Batman, would you? Because they turned it into a completely irrelevant CHICK FLICK.
So what do I want?
I'm fucking DRAG KING. I want women heroes who are ACTUALLY HEROES, not just action sluts who clench big guns between their thighs. I want women who take care of themselves, ACTUALLY TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES, then go out to bars and have hot guys dancing on their laps. I want MANLY WOMEN and FEMININE MEN.
I want FUCKING EQUALITY.
And if the market won't provide it, I'll put it in the market my own damn self.
Watch me as I try to change my world. Maybe women CAN'T do shit.
So I guess I'll just have to be something more.
Yeah, this is gonna be one of THOSE blogs. And if you're that kind of guy who looks at the word feminism, rolls his eyes, and kicks off, then go ahead and piss off, bitch. Either you've got a problem with a woman bringing up a subject you aren't comfortable with or you're too ignorant to bother understanding the actual definition of feminism first and buy into the social stereotype that half of it is lesbians, another part is ugly women who just hate men, and gall knows what you think the rest of it is.
Honestly, I've been wanting to do this blog for a while. Not just on stuff like gender equality, but about BEING a teenage drag king. And tonight I finally decided to do it, after watching The Social Network.
The Social Network is a movie based on the book Accidental Billionaires, which tells the story of the creators of facebook, a couple of college kids. I'm going to bypass the whole plot, which you can google at your convenience anyway, and tell you what it was in the movie that inspired me.
The women are treated like pointless shit.
Now, it's a true story. I realize this. I realize it's how they actually acted in real life.
What bothers me, and has bothered me for some time, is that women act that way in those situations because they're expected to. Because society tells them that's how women in those situations act.
For those of you still reading, I will define it for you. Just in case you can't be bothered to go look it up yourself.
fem·i·nism
[fem-uh-niz-uhm] Show IPA
–noun
1.
the doctrine advocating social, political, and all other rights of women equal to those of men.
I will now define feminist.
feminist (ˈfɛmɪnɪst)
— n
1. a person who advocates equal rights for women
These are all as defined by dictionary.com, a very useful internet resource.
I will now provide the definitions of the same words as found on urbandictionary.com, which to my understanding is the most or one of the most popular diction sites of MY generation. Meaning it's used by we young people. You know, those of us most easily influenced by our society's most powerful modes of entertainment: television, movies, music, and, dwindling in strength though it may be, I'll go ahead and tack literature on that list.
1. feminist
someone who believes the radical notion that women are people.
2. feminist
A woman (or man?) who wants equal rights for both sexes. However, in order to truly achieve EQUAL rights, chivalry (paying the bill, leaving the door open, etc...) must be banished from society as well as all those old archaic rules about women. So, to all you feminists who want equal rights, AND special treatment, I say, pick one or the other damn it.
4. Feminism
A movement that supports equal opportunities for men and women and asserts that women are entitled to the same political, social, and intellectual rights as men. As a cultural and literary movement, feminism seeks to challenge historically male-centred representations of women and identify a sovereign tradition of female cultural and literary production.
These are definitions posted by us young people, FOR us young people, AS we young people understand them.
What I WILL say for urbandictionary is that the definitions of feminism rang true, and many of them were actually long--the one see here is the shortest original post(there was another shorter one, but that was cited as being from the Merriam-Webster dictionary.)
However, take care to notice the first post on feminist.
feminist
someone who believes the radical notion that women are people.
Why is this one the first?
I don't know how this works on urbandictionary. Is there a ranking system where definitions get voted up or down? Is it based on first-come-first-served? I don't know. Either way, either it's rated highest because people think it's funny or because that's the first definition anyone thought of to post.
Let me put it simply for you, this is a bad thing.
Now I'm going to tie in what I said earlier about movies, music, and all that jazz affecting us young people.
You know what I see when I watch movies? When I read books? What I hear when I listen to music?
Women can't do shit.
Name your favourite protagonist off the top of your head, or at least your favourite actor who's played your favourite protagonists. Here's mine:
Spider Jerusalem
Batman
Hughe Jackman
Johnny Depp
Now name your favourite bands and or singers. Here's mine:
Tom Waits
30 Seconds to Mars
Smashing Pumpkins
Shinedown
And there's the greats. Maybe I don't love them, maybe I'm another Young Person who doesn't Appreciate Good Music. But here they are:
The Beatles
Elvis Presley
Led Zeppelin
ACDC
The Rolling Stones
That's just some of them. What do they all have in common?
The protagonists are men. The singers and the lead singers of these bands--hell I'm pretty sure everyone in those bands--are all male.
What's the great movies of the year?
Inception. Avatar(visually, the story was shit, but the visuals deserve a mention.) How To Train Your Dragon. The Social Network. TRON: Legacy. To name a few, all of which I've seen, and you know what all these movies have in common?
They are good movies. They have (with the exception of Avatar and Tron) good writing, good characters, and a strong story.
You know what else they have in common?
They are all male leads.
What's the last good movie you watched--the last good movie you watched that had EVERYTHING, compelling, ORIGINAL story, powerful characters, great writing, ideas that you took seriously--that had a female lead GO GO GO YOU HAVE THE NEXT TEN SECONDS--
You can't answer that question in ten seconds can you? Okay, last good movie with a MALE--
Inception.
See how easy that was? Here's why it was so hard before--not because Hollywood doesn't give women those roles. It's not Hollywood's fault. It's YOUR fault. It's the AUDIENCE'S FAULT. Why? Because Hollywood is a mere ATTENTION WHORE. It only GIVES what it KNOWS you will TAKE. What you will devour greedily with your needs for wish-fulfillment, for fantasy-appeal, for sexual objectification, for socially acceptable.
You know what makes me sad? I like fast car movies. I like gangster movies. I like people I can relate to in those movies, or at least seriously admire. And I get them. What I don't get is WOMEN in those movies that I can relate to or seriously admire.
Well, what do you expect? They're MEN'S movies.
Fuck you. They're not MEN'S movies. They aren't boy flicks. They're MY flicks too, because this is MY country too, this is MY society too, and I expect some galldamn RESPECT in the fast-car-movie and gangster-movie industry. Because if I'm going to give you my money, the least you could do is give me something BACK for it.
Well that's just tough luck. You aren't going to get that sort of thing--women are in those movies to look hot and serve as finish line prizes. In those types of movies, you just aren't going to see the hot sexy chick win the race and get to be the badass lead.
That ISN'T what I want.
Wait...what?
I don't want to see the hot slut take the wheel. I don't care about her. I'm not asking for yet ANOTHER form of objectification, if you put what society deems as a "hot chick" in the driver's seat, you're going to get another Transformer's heroine, except she's trying to pull off a lead role.
...Where are you going with this?
Where I'm going is I'm not bashing on men. Yeah, it's a man's world, I'll say that much and you can't deny it. I mean hell, women STILL aren't equal, not even on paper or legally--we STILL don't get equal pay.
I'm bashing on the women.
You take their shit and you swallow it with a smile. You get on your knees, you give him a blowjob, and you tell yourself it's sexy. It's not sexy. It's sexy to HIM. You see them objectify you in a movies, and either you tell your daughter not to watch it or you punch your boyfriend for saying it's hot. You don't ACTUALLY DO ANYTHING. Because YOU DON'T CARE. Because if you EVER had a problem with it, you were called a feminist bitch, or told to "God, loosen up, don't be such a tightass" or were given some such similar instruction in the form of an offhand phrase that was probably mildly offensive. And you TOOK IT. And now you BELIEVE IT'S OKAY.
Men rule the world, but it's because YOU LET THEM. You let the millionaire snuff crack off your ten-pounds-underweight ribcage, you striptease on the coffee table during highschool/college parties, you show your breasts at spring break, you give him head in his car. And you do it now because you think you enjoy it. You did it the first time because That Guy told you you'd enjoy it, or it'd be hot, or because your girl friend told you it would be, and she would know, because she knows what guys want. It's about what guys want. Movies are about what guys want. Music is about what guys want. TV is vastly about what guys want. The internet is vastly about what guys want.
...are you going to get around to the part about what you WANT out of all this?
Yeah. I want a fast-car movie about two women who take care of themselves, watch out for their bros, and have hot guys stripteasing on their cars who will ultimately serve no purpose to the plot other than to be sexy. I want a gangster movies about a group of women who shoot up the bank and go to a bar where they're entertained by hot stripper guys who will never be seen again throughout the rest of the movie. I want a woman dragon rider, I want a woman warrior, I want a woman I CAN TAKE SERIOUSLY. I want a woman EVERYONE CAN TAKE SERIOUSLY.
Everyone remembers the Batman, the Superman, the Spiderman movies. Not because they had great actors. Really, in my opinion, the only superhero movies that have had "great" actors would be the X-men movies(Hughe Jackman) and the Batman movies(Christian Bale). Because people take the MEN seriously.
How many people even KNOW there is a Catwoman movie? Aside from horny comic geeks and the occasional movie enthusiast?
Do you know why that isn't a good movie? The actress isn't too bad. Her male lead isn't too bad. But the story? The character?
THEY WEREN'T TAKEN SERIOUSLY.
They turned catwoman into a rooftop-leaping stripper. Her outfits are ridiculous. They provide absolutely no protection, and they have gaps in vital places--like her CHEST, and her STOMACH. You know, places you'd want to protect MOST in a fight? From things like guns? So yes, the obvious purpose is just to make her look hot.
Excuse me? Why don't I get my superhero men running around shirtless? I get maybe one scene of them per movie topless while they're changing or something. One. One scene. Comic geeks, or anyone who may randomly download Catwoman off the internet(probably on accident)gets most of the movie to eye her out in prostitute getup.
What about the spandex, you may ask. Well, Superman was invulnerable, and besides, you don't really SEE anything in that. Batman ended up in super-reinforced-nylon or something like that with bits of actual armour. Ironman goes without saying. And Spiderman? I don't even know, I think I was nodding off in that part. Or maybe I just didn't care.
And as for the STORY of Catwoman? Well, Batman had to deal with FEAR ITSELF. In Batman Begins of 2005, his archnemesis uses fear to control people, basically. Superman--the traditional Lex Luthor+misc bad guy deal. Spiderman--the Goblin, the Hobgoblin, Sandman, Venom, all supervillains, along with serious personal issues in his life. Ironman had to deal with enemies of his company--the biggest of which turned out to be his closest confidant in the business who ultimately betrayed him.
Catwoman? She had a makeup company trying to kill her. Because the makeup secretly ate faces in like 10% of trials or something and was still going on the market.
FUCKING. MAKEUP. That was Catwoman's antagonist.
You know what most people don't even know? Catwoman's not a hero. First and foremost, she's a thief. She steals stuff, and it's COOL that she gets away with it because SHE GETS AWAY WITH IT DESPITE BATMAN. Yeah. Seeing the movie, you wouldn't even know that she was associated with Batman, would you? Because they turned it into a completely irrelevant CHICK FLICK.
So what do I want?
I'm fucking DRAG KING. I want women heroes who are ACTUALLY HEROES, not just action sluts who clench big guns between their thighs. I want women who take care of themselves, ACTUALLY TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES, then go out to bars and have hot guys dancing on their laps. I want MANLY WOMEN and FEMININE MEN.
I want FUCKING EQUALITY.
And if the market won't provide it, I'll put it in the market my own damn self.
Watch me as I try to change my world. Maybe women CAN'T do shit.
So I guess I'll just have to be something more.
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