I find the critical analysis in the mainstream comics blogworld often more satisfying than the LJ variety, and I think both would benefit from more cross-pollination.
Obviously when two groups can have a meeting of minds over a common interest and manage to have an intelligent discourse that enriches those of all viewpoints, everybody wins.
But the way for us to do that is not to go to some fanboy-frequented message board and say, "Why don't you idiots talk about the feminist issues in BIRDS OF PREY? I just don't get it. Are you all knuckle-dragging cavemen? All those comments about how hot Catwoman or Supergirl or Stargirl are just make you sound like a bunch of hard-up prison inmates who haven't seen a real live woman in years." -- and we would be rightfully smacked down, if not banned, if we tried to pursue discussion in that way.
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Date: 2005-01-08 10:26 am (UTC)Obviously when two groups can have a meeting of minds over a common interest and manage to have an intelligent discourse that enriches those of all viewpoints, everybody wins.
But the way for us to do that is not to go to some fanboy-frequented message board and say, "Why don't you idiots talk about the feminist issues in BIRDS OF PREY? I just don't get it. Are you all knuckle-dragging cavemen? All those comments about how hot Catwoman or Supergirl or Stargirl are just make you sound like a bunch of hard-up prison inmates who haven't seen a real live woman in years." -- and we would be rightfully smacked down, if not banned, if we tried to pursue discussion in that way.