Gail Simone's Blog, page 937
August 29, 2012
cosgeek:
Rule 63 Joker (from Arkham Asylum) by Slarenkou
This...
runicbinary:
Secret Six v3 04
I love how when Deadshot found...
Secret Six v3 04
I love how when Deadshot found out Scandal was a lesbian, he still, you know, whines about it, but he calls her “sis” and stopped hitting on her. I read it as being as close to a show of support as he can get and it’s kind of adorable.
I also like how even though he’s calling Catman out, he’s subtly defending him, because he’s basically as close to a best friend as Floyd has.
You are a horrible cigararette-stealing assassin, Lawton, but I sort of love you.
That’s very astute, actually.
My thinking was, for Scandal, Deadshot, Catman, and Bane, being emotionally connected to someone was akin to terror. It was not a pleasant or sought-after sensation, overall.
So when they care abut each other, it’s almost painful.
Also, I MAY be bringing back a member of the Six. Can’t say which one. But fingers crossed!
womenreadcomicsinpublicagain:
@ilikecomicstoo reading Showcase...
@ilikecomicstoo reading Showcase Presents: Booster Gold! She was decked out in her (Blue) beetle earrings and pendant to mark the occasion.
Not only is this adorable…LOOK AT THAT SCARAB AMULET!
Video Game Query
What was the last video game you were obsessed with, and what was it about that game that kept you hooked?
I am asking just out of some curiosity regarding the changing nature of storytelling.
August 28, 2012
womenreadcomicsinpublicagain:
Gail Simone reads a hair-raising...
Gail Simone reads a hair-raising comic and does not appreciate the “hair-raising” part!
In an otherwise unhappy evening, I think it’s time to LOOK AT THIS RAGMOP for the clear laughter and derision it deserves. It took forever to get it this high, then my hubby came up and squashed it with his hands like the Hulk to make it even more ridiculous.
I am always happy to look ridiculous!
Aw
Someone just sent me a private message that made me cry in a good way.
I’m not going to out them, but thank you, I think you know who you are. And it means A LOT to me.
thefingerfuckingfemalefury:
tallestsilver:
comicheroines:
Batw...
Batwoman Cosplay
Me and Caroline? Oh hells yes.
^ The both of you look seriously kick ass here Silver :D
Good lord.
Awesome. They look both gorgeous and fearsome!
Better Than You: gailsimone: Better Than You: Cosplayersgailsimone: I can’t believe...
I can’t believe this still needs to be said.
Cosplayers are not there to be your pets, your sex workers, your pretend girlfriend/boyfriend, or your creepy grope fantasy.
Don’t put your hands on them without permission, don’t take photos without permission, don’t bully them,…
Fair enough, I’ll remove it. But these complaints were in no order whatsoever, nor were they prioritized, they are complaints I have been hearing from many cosplayers over the past few years. Also, specifically speaking, no one on that list (barring pets) should be groped without permission, either, not just sex workers.
Well… maybe you and cosplayers need to think that it’s pretty fucking fucked up to complain about people groping them if the complaint is ‘what do they think I am, a WHORE?’ It’s all just more whorephobic BS, this idea that sex workers can be optioned for non-consensual groping and other bad behaviour, that it’s part of our jobs and we should accept it - it feeds into attitudes that cause us to actually be treated that way. You should be critiquing that and not letting it slide with a ‘well it’s what cosplayers have said to me’. That’s a cop out. And if cosplayers are saying that people being fucked about boundaries makes them feel like hookers, then those cosplayers are whorephobic and should learn a thing.
And pretend boyfriends/girlfriends and grope fantasies AREN’T REAL. I’m way more opposed to pets being groped without permission (I think we can all tell when our animal companions don’t want to be touched and it’s pretty fucked up to try and make them) than figments of imagination which don’t exist and so actually cannot ever be subjected to non-consensual behaviour.
It’s not acceptable for people to use cosplayers as proxies for those fantasy objects, and so transgress boundaries EVER, but the way sex workers as solidly real people in any context were listed alongside fantasy objects in the original post was hella probbo.
I appreciate you removing it but your response also feels grudging and dismissive and I find that disappointing. :(
I did remove it but just moved it, to be frank, to a different query.
Truthfully, I think you’re right.
I think it’s a problem if people assume people are sex workers if they AREN’T sex workers, I’m sure you can agree that that’s a bad assumption to make just because someone is dressed as Lara Croft or whomever. I think it’s okay to condemn that. The post was about cosplayers being harassed.
Yeah, somehow I doubt the conversations happening about this grievance avoided a whorephobic overtone. Women the world over for multitudes of reasons endure men presuming/hoping they’re sex workers in different contexts and yes, of course it’s not acceptable but complaint about it is rarely about male entitlement to women’s bodies/sexual availability and more about female indignance at being mistaken for a dirty, dirty hooker. But you know, I’m cynical. Worthwhile reflecting on conversations as they’re happening to avoid this.
But I get that putting sex workers in a list with the other stuff is a mess. I’m happy to remove it and you have my apologies. I don’t feel any stigma whatsoever to sex workers, probably because I know so many and they have kindly and patiently made me less ignorant on the topic, bless them.
I know you know the ally discourse pretty well; the truth is we ALL have stigma of varying kinds towards sex workers, as we do to any other group of people who are marginalised and discriminated against; that’s how we’re raised and I think it’s pretty naieve to feel that you’ve successfully eliminated it all when most sex workers haven’t even done that, including me and you know I’m heavily invested in the political side of it.
For emphasis for those reading along as I believe Gail gets it now: listing sex workers alongside other categories it is then implied it IS okay to be inappropriate and behave non-consensually towards (largely because they’re not human/are fictional) is wildly problematic because sex workers are already so targeted and affected by rape culture, discriminated and violence. Okay?
Anyway, it’s removed, my apologies for a hasty reply that seemed grumpy.
Thank you.
(you do know who this is, right?)
I don’t, in fact.
But you know, you’re right. I can look at the post and think, man, it should not have to be said that sex workers ALSO don’t deserve to be groped and harassed.
But it clearly does.
I don’t want to add to any phobia or stigma against sex workers. Anything that reduces their implied humanity is nothing I want to be part of.
Frustrated
…with myself, a little. I read yet ANOTHER case of a cosplayer, actually a series of cosplayers, being hassled at conventions, being intimidated, bullied, and mishandled, and it just made me angry.
I wrote a post about it, and said some things that I’d been hearing cosplayers say for the last several years. Because I included sex workers awkwardly in the complaints of how NOT to treat a cosplayer, several actual sex workers took understandable issue with both what I said and what I DIDN’T say (which is that sex workers don’t deserve unwanted groping or intimidation, either).
It would have taken two minutes to say what they are saying, and what I thought didn’t need to be said, that sex workers are also people, and they don’t need to be harassed or bullied or groped, and that they don’t want to be treated like the worst example of humanity, either.
But I didn’t take the two minutes to do that. So, I screwed up. They’re right, I was wrong. I’m sorry. I removed that reference from my post.
I know it’s a cliche, but I do have a lot of sex worker friends and they’ve helped me understand what that means a great deal better, so that kind of makes it doubly wrong to miss taking the moment to state what should have been stated.
I’m sorry. You guys don’t need people forgetting to mention your humanity like that.
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