{"id":3732,"date":"2010-01-29T17:00:36","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T22:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3732"},"modified":"2010-01-29T11:03:57","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T16:03:57","slug":"thats-one-way-of-putting-it-39","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3732","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s one way of putting it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcj.com\/history\/they-also-thought-of-wolverine\">Shaenon Garrity on<\/a> Michael Chabon&#8217;s <em>The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier &amp; Clay<\/em>:<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fun.  It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just kind of like reading a novel about a Victorian inventor who comes up with the microchip, the integrated-circuit computer, the Internet, Google, and furry porn, yet is only considered on par with the guy who made those bikes with the one big wheel.<\/font><\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">She also makes another really interesting point:<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">Also, just to put on my irritable-feminist hat for the day, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve noticed a tendency in fiction where these superhuman feats of intellect and inspiration are only considered plausible in male characters.  While Joe and Sammy come up with every brilliant innovation in the history of American comic books, their lady Rosa Saks gets to be\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 the second-best artist of romance comics.  Sure, in real life there weren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t many women during that period drawing great comic books, but neither were there any men who simultaneously combined all the best qualities of Siegel and Shuster, Jack Kirby, Stan Lee, Steve Ditko, and Will Eisner in their prime.  Why must <em>our<\/em> ridiculous wish-fulfillment fantasy characters be confined to fanfiction.net?<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookslut.com\/blog\" title=\"Bookslut\">Bookslut<\/a><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shaenon Garrity on Michael Chabon&#8217;s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier &amp; Clay: It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fun. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just kind of like reading a novel about a Victorian inventor who comes up with the microchip, the integrated-circuit computer, the Internet, Google, and furry porn, yet is only considered on par with the guy who made those bikes with &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3732\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[16,20],"class_list":["post-3732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-books","tag-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3732"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}