Gail Simone's Blog, page 104

What comic is the image below your bio from? It's awesome

It’s from a Justice League Classified story by Gail Simone and José Luis Garcia-Lopez called “The Hypothetical Woman”. Diana has some pretty badass moments in it!

(She also bakes Amazon cookies during a brief moment of respite between calamities. It’s her mum’s recipe! And apparently so yummy even Batman can’t help stuffing his face on them!)

evilhorse:I will show you the spark of danger.

evilhorse:

I will show you the spark of danger.

Gail Simone (and others) in WiR (lby3-dot-com-slash-wir) compiled a list of bad things that happened to female characters in superhero comics, but she did not use the term "fridging" there, let alone define the term. That only happened later. Note that on

I didn’t even know that but you are right.

Gail Simone, for the better, was making an observation about the treatment of female characters in order to make a larger point about sexism within the industry/medium and from there hopefully trying to address it.

She essentially took individual examples and put them together to paint the full picture.

She wasn’t laying out a criteria for acceptable or unacceptable writing.

She even had on that site a section for people to give their own thoughts and hosted a ‘counterargument’ of sorts which made a case for certain examples where the treatment of such characters was justifiable, citing Gwen and Jean among them. 

This doesn’t mean Simone AGREES but my point is she wasn’t outright saying ‘X, Y and Z = fridging and therefore sexism’. She was opening up a long overdue conversation we are still having.

At the same time I’ve noted at least one example in Simone’s own work which you might argue would either count as a fridging, something close to it or something which if it had been done by another writer before Simone made the original list and she’d been aware of it more than likely would’ve justified it’s inclusion on the list. I’m talking about Sandy in her Deadpool run, the first six issues where she is in an abusive relationship, gets beaten up and this then pushes Taskmaster into seeking vengeance on her behalf.

Now I’m not saying this invalidates anything she says. I’m just saying her efforts were never to lay down the law on what is acceptable and what isn’t or when it is acceptable and when it isn’t. 

She doesn’t have word of God authority to dictate when something is and is not a fridigng nor when that is okay and not okay.

Mark Waid says he's going to make even you like Cyclops. Your response?

NEVER.

Hi Gail is true you are upset with the news of Amy Chu taking over Red Sonja and with Nicolai Smith for working with Greg Rucka on the New Wonder Woman?

Yep, so upset that I was actually the one who suggested Amy for that gig. And I’m so upset with Nicola and Greg, two of my best friends in comics and two of my favorite creators, working on the book they were born to do…so angry! :)

Gail, did you see that DC entertainment has signed Steve Orlando who is a bi sexual male who wrote Midnighter and now a mini series Apollo and Midnighter which will prompt homosexuality and now he is writing icon Supergirl and JLA i am digusted

Oh nooooooooooooooooo!

Wait.

Yaaaaaaaaaay!

batgirlbatarangs:my sexuality is babs calling people ‘baby’

batgirlbatarangs:

my sexuality is babs calling people ‘baby’

please DO NOT assume that just because my character is doing something that i as the writer

steve-rim-jobs:

thedevilsbartender:

approve of it
am romanticizing it
have a kink with regard to it
think it is okay for anyone to ever do ever

because sometimes my character does things that I absolutely cringe at and which are almost painful to write.

but my writing a villain does not make me a villian

understand that it is fiction and I do not condone the wrong actions that sometimes are written out on my blog for in-character purposes.

The fact that some people don’t understand this boggles my mind.

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misschrissylynn:

The cat. The canary. Fun times at @comic_con_palmsprings with the lovely talented new favorite redhead @reagankathryn #catwomancosplay #catwoman #selinakyle #DCcomics #gothamcity #blackcanary

Today was my sweetie’s birthday, and I did my best to spoil him rotten.He’s the strongest guy I...

Today was my sweetie’s birthday, and I did my best to spoil him rotten.

He’s the strongest guy I know, he never blusters, hates braggarts and bullies, and refuses to ever do anything he knows is wrong. Every day he tells me how much he loves me, and shows it in a hundred ways. I sometimes get caught up in petty stuff, but he can laugh off almost anything, except someone being mean to others.

We spend almost every day together and are just as happy being together at home as we are being together on a great adventure.

You bring the music to my life, Scott. Love you always.

Always.