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gailsimone:

sakurafire:

kyrax2:

dcwomenshowingass:

renamok:

georgethecat:

dcwomenshowingass:

Frumpy costumes make girls look frumpy.

Being a bitch at panels make feminists look bad. 

Hope she enjoyed her 5 minutes of fame.

Wow, asshole much OP? 

A few things:

• If memory serves, this is the kickass woman who kept raising issues of women working in and being portrayed in comics during panels. Already, she’s a trillion times better than the sexist and insipid OP.
• Frumpy and slutty are words used by people in the kyriarchy to reinforce the idea that a woman is only worthy if she looks a certain way… which is ridiculous, insulting, and infuriating.
• If this woman is a ‘bitch’, then the OP is a neanderthal dipshit with a tired, disgusting and pointless ~sexy cosplay~ blog and is probably a basement dwelling troll with all the charms of a medical cadaver.
• She may have only gotten ~five minutes of fame~, but that’s far more than the OP will ever get or deserves. Suck a sick dick and choke on it.

Hey asshole, my point was that sdcc batgirl hijacked panels and made feminists everywhere look like idiots. Im a female comic fan and ive gotten a lot of shit at my LCS because of this so excuse me while i blame her. My comment on her frumpiness is aimed at her shitty costume, not her body. Lastly, fuck YO COUCH

Thank you for your input on my costume. I’m wondering, did you feel the original Stephanie Brown version was ‘frumpy’? If so, it sounds like I succeeded in my aim of making it accurate, but if you don’t, I’d love to hear any suggestions you might have for ‘de-frumpifying’ it, as long as they won’t make it less true to Stephanie’s costume (i.e. I can’t really cut a chest window and it’s already skin-tight!)

I’m sorry to hear that you were harassed at your LCS.  That must have been very frustrating for you, particularly if these are people whose respect and acceptance you are trying to gain.  If it’s not too painful for you, would you be willing to talk about it and explain what happened in more detail?  I would like to better understand your point of view.

Out of curiosity, were you at any of the panels at SDCC, or did you listen to the podcasts of the panels or read my interview with dcwomenkickingass afterward?  It would help me understand where you are coming from if I knew the answers.

Thank you for your time.

Kyrax is an awesome gal who got the chance to voice what a decent amount of the comic reading population was thinking. (Also, her costume was cool lookin’!)

However, as always:

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This might be the most painful thing I’ve read about comics on Tumblr in a long while. I don’t even know where to start.

First, screw it, let’s just get this out of the way…I met Kyrax in person at two different conventions, and spent time with her, she looked absolutely fucking FABULOUS, huge smile, great costume, I don’t know what the OP could possibly be thinking. As if female comic fans don’t already get enough crap already!

Second, she didn’t ‘hijack’ any panels. These panels are, at best, a fun time for readers and comics creators to meet. At worst, they are just commercials for upcoming product.  They’re not solemn events where the audience isn’t allowed to voice their opinion to the superpowerful comic book wizards.  I’ve been to panels where readers have been far more vocal about things of no importance whatsoever, like minor costume changes. You’re saying actually talking about things that MATTER is somehow bad form?

Let me tell you, I was proud as hell of Kyrax for getting up and asking her questions in a straightforward manner, and for her refusal to be intimidated.  In a room full of people who went from apathetic to openly hostile, that took a Batgirl-level of courage. I was there, and what she said took guts.

AND it made a difference. I spoke with several panelists after and they nearly uniformly felt bad about it, and that they knew she had a point. This stuff is a slow, irritating process, but it does make a difference, and now we have Ann Nocenti on Green Arrow and Nicola Scott on JLA and more good news coming that I can’t talk about yet.She didn’t make feminists look bad, she made feminists look both BRAVE and EFFECTIVE.

Finally, I’ve visited with Kyrax, I’ve spoken with her many times. She’s not some mean ol’ spoilsport. She was far, far more gracious and kind and understanding about what had happened than she needed to be. She was forgiving to the people that booed her and to the creators that didn’t really answer her. She doesn’t want to simply criticize, she wants things to be better.

She is, in short, an adult.

An AMAZING adult.

I don’t know the original poster. But I was there on the panel, and was nothing but awed by this Batgirl. We should ALL be so ‘bitchy,’ if that’s how you want to define courage and doing the right thing.

Kyrax, you keep on being Batgirl, please. You inspired a lot of people.

“Being a bitch at panels make feminists look bad.”

Wait, so this woman having the courage to stand up in front of a group of people and ask a question that many other women who read comics had been asking all over the internet for awhile somehow makes feminism look bad? Despite the fact that people were very likely to make shitty remarks about her/her appearance/her personality/any other potential or imagined flaw the might find because of what she did?  And doing this in a crowd that likely contained the sort of comics fans who say things like “feminists need to shut their mouths” or “women just don’t understand comics” or “why are you bitching, they let Gail Simone write comics!”

NO.  THAT IS DOING FEMINISM RIGHT.  If you don’t understand how feminism works, don’t fucking talk about it.