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Feminism and Comic Book Media

@asocialjusticeleague / asocialjusticeleague.tumblr.com

Intersectional feminist with an MFA in creative writing blogging about social justice and pop culture. Teacher, tutor, bisexual neurodivergent fat white geek girl with she/her pronouns.
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“Before discussing the specific ways in which Spike enacts camp, we must first establish how he fits into the primary categories or features of camp. One such feature is what Jack Babuscio refers to within his discussion of irony: “Camp is ironic insofar as an incongruous contrast can be drawn between an individual/thing and its context/association. The most common of incongruous contrasts is that of masculine/feminine”. As early as his first appearance in Sunnydale, Spike draws ironic attention to his masculinity: in “School Hard” about to do battle, Buffy asks, “Do we really need weapons for this? ” and Spike responds, “I just like them. They make me feel all manly.” He is simultaneously replicating and mocking conventions of masculinity: he enacts masculine power by demonstrating prowess with weapons, but saying he needs accessories to make him feel manly is not, in fact, manly—witness the almost cultish status given the dangerous sport of bare-knuckle fighting in Fight Club and in staged competitions. Certainly numerous Buffy scholars have noted the muddling of this particular binary and others in association with Spike. Lorna Jowett argues, “Spike blurs boundaries between good and bad, ‘masculine’ and ‘feminine,’ hetero- and homosexual, man and monster, comic and tragic, villain and hero”. Likewise, Jes Battis refers to “ambivalent characters like Spike, who straddle the line between protagonist/antagonist in ways that continually disrupt the audience’s perceptions”. Spike, positioned as straddling these incongruous binaries, is “queer” according to Dee Amy-Chinn “Both his gender and sexuality are fluid: neither is secure and both are based around excess. […] Indeed, it is the confidence that he gains from his excessive masculinity that opens up the space in which he can enact his femininity. […] Spike is an accomplished ‘switch’, able to take either the man’s part or the woman’s; he is comfortable being completely submissive or completely in control. Spike is both male and female, masculine and feminine, vanilla and erotically varied.”

— Cynthea Masson and Marni Stanley, Queer Eye of that Vampire Guy: Spike and the Aesthetics of Camp (via deadwivesclub)

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Campaign coordinators @BitterGeeks, @GreatKungLao, @thebravestheart, @leDASHann and @truemanofsteel_ invite you to participate in a Twitter trending event that celebrates Amy Adams’ Lois Lane on Sunday, January 31. See you there!

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punchitmrsulu

Remember when Krypto appeared on Smallville and Lois Lane made Clark change his name to fucking Shelby?

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I have not posted on tumblr in like a year so congrats on being such an asshole in your tags bashing Erica Durance’s Lois that you rose my account from the dead because that’s a real accomplishment given how little I care about tumblr or fandom in general at this point. But I had time today.

Shelby was Clark’s dog in the famous series “Superman: A Man For All Seasons” by Jeph Loeb a book that Smallville was heavily influenced by given that Jeph was, at the time, involved with Smallville and had a particularly close affection for Erica as she was very good and kind to his young child who was terminally ill. Shelby is not Kryptonian. He was given strength that wore off by a serum and was, for the rest of the series, just a regular, wonderful Golden Retriever.

Krypto is supposed to be of Kryptonian origin and, therefore, it wouldn’t make much sense to name this dog that name given he’s not Kryptonian and had no real powers without that serum. Lois and Clark have 2 children now according to the Crisis timeline so I imagine now they have Krypto in my head canon.

It’s beyond dumb that I reblogged you for popping off about a damn dog but your tags about Durance being “the worst” in the Lois tag of all places pissed me off PARTICULARLY given it’s clear you are a DCEU Clois shipper and pretend to be feminist on a semi regular basis defending Amy Adams’ Lois.

Adams’ Lois is great btw—I love her. And I love the DCEU Clois. I have and will defend Adams’ Lois to the death. But you would have to know literally NOTHING about Superman to not realize that Erica Durance’s interpretation of Lois Lane is one of the best—if not the best EVER. She is, thankfully, one of the things about Smallville that has aged the best and, after a lot of years of misogynistic fandom abuse (which I’m assuming you participated in) is pretty widely recognized now as being one of the best things about the show. In fact, I would say it’s pretty widely accepted at this point that, next to Michael Rosenbaum’s performance as Lex, that Erica as Lois Lane and the slow burn of the Lois and Clark relationship from rivals to friends to true friends to work partners to lovers is one of the most positive and enduring legacies of the show even among Superman fans who didn’t really ::like:: the show.

I noticed that you had to throw in the “even worse than Lana” in your tags too. Lana is also a character who has aged better as we’ve gotten farther from the show btw and you can leave her alone as well. But see now it’s clear....you hated Erica as Lois, you didn’t like Lana....hmmmm. Which raises the question of who you ::do:: think was a good female character on that show if you hated Lois Lane and didn’t like Lana. But I don’t think we should go down that road as she hasn’t aged well either as character she was or the nightmare of a human who played her. It’s not a convo that ends well for you. She’s fading into oblivion as she always deserved to do and I’m not even saying her name bc she’s that unimportant to Superman’s franchise. Erica’s Lois has risen as the beloved figure from the show she always deserved to be. Which is deeply satisfying.

I would probably shut the F up about Erica Durance as Lois until the end of time. You want to stan DCEU Clois, go right ahead. They are great. But don’t act like a fool IN THE TAG and then ask to be taken seriously as a Superman or Lois fan. No one has time for that in 2021!

Hey and thanks to @asocialjusticeleague who’s SV rewatch has been giving me life and reminding me every day just how wonderful ED’s Lois was. I’m so happy to see her finally getting the appreciation and legacy she’s always deserved from the wider fandom and pop culture even if it’s a decade too late. How satisfying to see her heralded as the best Lois EVER from so many circles now after certain individuals who never knew a damn thing about Lois to start with treated her so poorly. ::cough::

#wow this was on point from start to finish#Erica Durance#smallville#lois lane#misogyny#read a comic maybe?#gif
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I hope everyone understands that I am praying for BAD reviews after the embargo lifts because I trust critics to have the exact opposite opinion from me.

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“It feels like watching a live-action version of the Justice League Animated series!”

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“I’ve never loved Superman in the dceu but I did in this movie.”

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capucha-roja

Stop im literally gonna die

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asocialjusticeleague

I’m so sorry the private meltdown is over and the public one has begun

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Good look at the hope I ended this thread with I'm so sad.

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