Speaking from experience, longing for the simple domestic charms of married life does not tritely equal "wanting to be a housewife" for a passionate warrior woman. There are many similarities between the Mister Miracle/Big Barda relationship and the Andrew/Maura one.
(I didn't have a megalomanical New God for a foster father, but my real dad combines the creativity of Colonel Kurtz with the people skills of Machiavelli. Maura wasn't raised in a brutal orphanage on a hell world, but she did attend Medford public schools...which is a harsher fate in many ways. Instead of a grouchy pint-sized assistant named Oberon, I have a grouchy pint-sized chihuahua-pug named Oscar.)
All I know is that anything remotely approaching this in our home life would involve my either being strangled with or getting force fed that cape. Oh, and my wife would be wearing jeans and a t-shirt, not a bikini. (Way to reduce a strong female character to an appendage of her husband, DC!)
The Bodysnatchers - Easy Life (from a 1980 single, collected on The 2 Tone Collection: A Checkered Past, 1993) - This all-female second wave ska outfit later mutated into the Belle Stars. Singer Rhoda Dakar collaborated with one of the later lineups of The Specials, the fruits of which included the utterly harrowing "The Boiler," which I posted as part of last year's Halloween countdown.
Saturday, May 19, 2007
life could be so easy
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The Big Barda statue hasn't provoked as much reaction as the Mary Jane Parker one - have a look at Lurking Rhythmically on May 17th and the onward link. Whilst the statues are ludicrously sexist I find some of the current crop of Rap/Hip Hop/Dance videos more offensive in their blatant displays of women for tittilation and nothing else. Like I said to Erin 'bigger targets'... Oh, and ye, my wife could kick my ass aswell bitterandrew so you're not alone there.
I've been following the MJ statue controversy via WFA and other comics blogs since it first broke, but I couldn't find anything to say about it that hadn't been discussed in detail elsewhere.
The Barda statue was something that hit close to home, so that's what I ended up posting about.
Sadly, it's not difficult to find ugly displays of misogyny in current pop culture. There are targets of all sizes to choose from, but it's a matter of taking it on where it resonates with the individual -- tactical firefights within a much broader war.
You're the Earth-Prime version of them!
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