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The Uglier Face of Rampant Misogyny
Feb. 12th, 2008 06:01 pmWho hates women more, Dave Sim or Rick Sharer?
I've talked about Comics Village before and Rick Sharer's columns about Dave Sim and his infamous essays about women. I did post there for a while but gave up when it became clear that Sharer was using the Sim columns as an excuse to post his own misogynistic opinions and didn't want to talk about them.
I just can't stop myself from looking though and this week he's jumping off from Tangents to talk about abortion.
Of course Sim does not approve of abortion so Sharer doesn't approve of abortion but remember, it's only people who Sim or Sharer don't like who participate in groupthink. And it's the familiar tale, evil women have removed men from having any say in what goes on in women's bodies and it's bad, because why shouldn't men get to control other people's bodies? It's the standard argument, Shadowsax 101, with nothing new and no real attempt to suggest any solution other than the vague unstated message of 'anyone with a Y chromosome'.
I see Gail Simone is posting in there again. That's going to go well.
I read the last issue of 'Y The Last Man' this weekend. I need to read the whole series through in one go but my general feeling is that the story was okay but never great. For the few standout issues, such as those that tell the life stories of the main female characters, there were some duds, such as the confrontation with agents of The Setauket Ring, or issue 58 and the end of Alter's story. Considering the premise of the story it doesn't manage to say anything about men and women and the differences between them but is a fun action-adventure.
I've talked about Comics Village before and Rick Sharer's columns about Dave Sim and his infamous essays about women. I did post there for a while but gave up when it became clear that Sharer was using the Sim columns as an excuse to post his own misogynistic opinions and didn't want to talk about them.
I just can't stop myself from looking though and this week he's jumping off from Tangents to talk about abortion.
Of course Sim does not approve of abortion so Sharer doesn't approve of abortion but remember, it's only people who Sim or Sharer don't like who participate in groupthink. And it's the familiar tale, evil women have removed men from having any say in what goes on in women's bodies and it's bad, because why shouldn't men get to control other people's bodies? It's the standard argument, Shadowsax 101, with nothing new and no real attempt to suggest any solution other than the vague unstated message of 'anyone with a Y chromosome'.
I see Gail Simone is posting in there again. That's going to go well.
I read the last issue of 'Y The Last Man' this weekend. I need to read the whole series through in one go but my general feeling is that the story was okay but never great. For the few standout issues, such as those that tell the life stories of the main female characters, there were some duds, such as the confrontation with agents of The Setauket Ring, or issue 58 and the end of Alter's story. Considering the premise of the story it doesn't manage to say anything about men and women and the differences between them but is a fun action-adventure.
