hi guys! this is a comic i made for a final in my comics in literature class. we had to do a research paper on a topic we’d discussed in class and then accompany it with a comic with a relevant subject. my paper was about hyper-sexualization of women in comic books, but i decided to broaden it out here as well as personalize it and make myself the subject and discuss something i’ve been subjected to in the convention circuit and on the internet as well as thousands of other women, as well as give a cue to thought about how the comic book industry as well as the video game industry and even just media in general (all of which are male dominated) push such ridiculous pressures onto girls and women.
also, it feels kind of silly to have to add this since i hope it’s obvious, but i am very aware that there are men that don’t subscribe to this attitude, and am incredibly grateful that these issues are brought to light to people other than the ones that are subjected to it.
anyway haha i have literally been staring at this for 9 hours i don’t even know which direction is up anymore. thanks for reading!!!
Fantastic.
Slaughterhouse-Five Drinking Game:
- Take a shot for every “So it goes.”
- Die of alcohol poisoning.
So it goes.
My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone
“
| — | A Vindication of the Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft (via a-place-to-stand) |
I do not feel good
I’ve got the sad sads and
all I want to do is
fuck you
I’ve got the sad sads and
all I want to do is
fuck you
“
| — | Somebody, Charles Bukowski (via grievinghouseplants) |
It is okay for us to mourn over Boston, and over Baghdad, and at the same time complain about the racist, retaliatory violence that we as brown people in and outside the U.S. are forced to suffer as a consequence of such tragedies. It doesn’t mean we are minimizing the “American” tragedy. It means that we are hurting in more than one way and looking to heal.
“
| — |
Neha Ray Stop dismissing tragedies, all tragedies, and policing people’s concerns about the outcomes. (via neharaysays) |
it’s strange, I think,
that the best I know are
in trouble
while the worst are
healthy, calm and
prosperous;
they are also exception-
ally dull
and consider themselves
my friends.
I keep typing these
drunk poems
sitting in this chair
smoking too many
cigarettes
and not understanding
anything
and finally
not wanting to.
“
| — | Bukowski (via inrestless-dreams) |
