Why Postmodern Barney hates comic books

[rivkat]

Bookslut blog had this link and I --

Well. Apparently all comic book fans think alike (also, I appear to have misplaced my penis, which PMB assumes is a necessary attribute of comic fannishness), and that makes them racist, homophobic, and intolerant of change. But it's really not our fault, because we probably have Asperger's or some mild-spectrum autistic attributes. Which is "not to say I’m trying to pathologize super-hero fans and their behavior." Really, PMB? Because I'm sort of interested in what trying on your part would look like.

Comments

[harriet-spy.livejournal.com]

Sure, and I was a little Chris Claremont fangirl during *my* formative years. But every set of statistics I've seen indicates that comics overall still have a substantial male majority customer base, and that women who buy comics buy manga especially over superhero comics. It's pure numbers. Women in fandom are a minority. Women in fandom into comics are a minority within a minority.

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

Are there specific fandom numbers that include media-based fandoms (not just Sci-Fi)? Because I am always shocked to find that women are percieved to be a small percentage of fandom, when my experiences in fandom itself have been overwhelmingly involving other women.

Of course this could be a small little corner and I do see that we are a small percentage of the comic buying public - maybe. I have to wonder though *how* small we really are and how accurate the measures - because I don't *feel* invisible. But hell - comic readership is down across the boards. They should only hope to recruit more obsessive single women with jobs to the ranks.

And I don't know that women are a minority overall in fandom so much as we are *told* we are a minority and if the people telling us that are basing it on a Gaming/SciFi/Comic model and other forms of media fandom is just not considered. Or my blood sugar could be low and it is 6pm and I am still at work and need to shut-up now. It is any woman's guess, really.

::just finished conversation with cubicle-mate - a member of the Scott Peterson Trial Fandom who just doesn't know it::