Recently many comic book / book movies were released, it wasn’t
really interesting because it had the same superheroes just like Thor, Iron Man
and Spider Man. I asked a lot of my friend whether the movie was great or not,
a lot of the guys said it was and the girls said they haven’t watched it yet or
they won’t watch it because it’s not interesting enough.
When browsing through my social media sites I stumbled upon
an article on Time magazine’s site, where it is titled “Where Are All the(Good) Female Superhero Movies?” written by Jeff Alexander. He’s a married man
that also like superheroes and looked up to them; of course he would watch
movies about his favourite superheroes. He shared his experience on how his wife
declines to watch a movie, and he watched it by himself at the theatres. After he
told his wife what about how the movie was, he also told his wife about Scarlett
Johanssen (The Black Widow) in the movie The Avengers. Her wife became
interested in the movie and wanted to watch the movie now, why is that? In his
article he cited examples of heroines that attract women to these types of
movies. When a women’s characteristic is strong they get the attention of women
to watch the movie. He also cited different articles where and why there were fewer
heroines in the spot light, why do you keep watching the movie over and over,
and why Brave the movie was a flop. I also read that in movies you always see a
man in tights and there weren’t any strong women that could match up to the
hero. He also explained that makers should make more female heroine in their
movies just like The Black Widow.
“Still, superheroine sexism can be overcome, as long as
there are those who want to do it, and do it right.” said Jeff. Sexism is one
of the main problems of people today, maybe it’s because of the stereotype that
has been going around.
I have also read in another article “The changing role ofwomen in comic books” written by Jennie Whitwood. In her article she said that
there were a lot of comic books that were seen in 2011, she also said that
there are controversies by the uneven gender portrayals. She was talking about
how female characters in comics are hard to maintain in its situation. Comics couldn’t
get female readers as much as romance comics did; comic book makers struggled to
make female readers read their action comics. Women in comics are not treated
well as the superhero in it, women in comics showed a lot of skin and had less
clothing, they also made women look sexier in their comics. In her article she
explain how comic books could get the attention of female readers, she also
cited some examples of women who are strong. I took notice a lot of women who
are strong are usually villains who are still devoted to their masters like
Quinns devotion to joker. But still there are women like The Black Widow to
look up to.
“For now, it seems that integrating the female voice into
superhero comics is still as challenging as ever, but there are signs of
positive change.” said Jennie. It’s not easy to make people change the way they
see women in comics but at least they are improving.
Going back, I did do a bit of stereotyping in the movies I
didn’t want to watch because of what I presumed that there will only be heroes
and no heroine. I didn’t appreciate how women are treated in comic books either
but im glad to see that they are working hard to make more female readers read their
comics and become more interesting. As to that it became more psychological that
women don’t usually read or watch movies that have the same men and the same
heroes in it, because women have their gender issues.
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