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Easy pickings today as the comic book genre is not exactly a bastion of feminism. That being said, it just behooves me not to share the head slapping stupidity of the people who designed an open contest to see if they have “the chops” to join the DC team. Let’s just let the vile bags of douche speak for themselves:
Harley Quinn. One page. Published work. Breaking into comics was never this fun. ;)
— Jim & Dan
Here’s how to enter:
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Read the rules & regulations listed below to confirm that you are eligible to enter DC Entertainment’s Open Talent Search and agree to the terms and conditions.
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Read the following script page and give us your original artistic interpretation of what those four panels should look like on a single page:
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4 panels
PANEL 1
Harley is on top of a building, holding a large DETACHED cellphone tower in her hands as lightning is striking just about everywhere except her tower. She is looking at us like she cannot believe what she is doing. Beside herself. Not happy.PANEL 2
Harley is sitting in an alligator pond, on a little island with a suit of raw chicken on, rolling her eyes like once again, she cannot believe where she has found herself. We see the alligators ignoring her.PANEL 3
Harley is sitting in an open whale mouth, tickling the inside of the whale’s mouth with a feather. She is ecstatic and happy, like this is the most fun ever.PANEL 4
Harley sitting naked in a bathtub with toasters, blow dryers, blenders, appliances all dangling above the bathtub and she has a cord that will release them all. We are watching the moment before the inevitable death. Her expression is one of “oh well, guess that’s it for me” and she has resigned herself to the moment that is going to happen.
Ah. Naked-happy with suicide is a okay – Let’s pause a second and set our phasers to “juxtaposition” and take a look at this snippet from the Atlantic Wire.
“Batwoman may be a superhero, but her powers apparently don’t extend to being able to marry someone of the same sex. The heroine, a Jewish lesbian, was denied a same-sex marriage by the execs of DC Comics, leading to a resignation of two Batwoman authors.
“We’re both heartbroken over leaving, but we feel strongly that you all deserve stories that push the character and the series forward. We can’t reliably do our best work if our plans are scrapped at the last minute, so we’re stepping aside,” wrote Batwoman co-authors J.H. Williams and W. Haden Blackman on their website late Wednesday night, explaining that DC Comics had squashed many of their editorial choices and “most crushingly, prohibited from ever showing Kate [Batwoman] and Maggie actually getting married.”
In addition, Williams tweeted:
@andykhouri Not wanting to be inflammatory, only factual- We fought to get them engaged, but were told emphatically no marriage can result.
— J.H. Williams III (@JHWilliamsIII) September 5, 2013″
Okay, so to summarize.
No problems!
But this, is not.
Women wanting to affirm their love? This shite is toxic and obviously not fit for publication.
Yah. So the abhorrent usual of objectification, degradation and violence against women is green lighted with an open invite for artists to “join the team” no less.
But…
A same sex marriage? Obviously completely off the fucking chain and gets shut down by DC in a heartbeat.
A double of patriarchal bullshite, with a heaping side of misogyny seems to be DC’s answer to the problem of rape culture in society, because pushing against toxic societal norms an artistic medium is hard.
Extra bonus fail for DC – September is Suicide Prevention month…
Needs not to be like this…not back then, not now and not in the future. If it is, get help immediately, or not so immediately if you can.
Yes, if you get a chance to go to this live, spend the $$ and the time and go experience it.
The motet is laid out for eight choirs of five voices (soprano, alto, tenor, baritone and bass). It is most likely that Tallis intended his singers to stand in a horseshoe shape. Beginning with a single voice from the first choir, other voices join in imitation, each in turn falling silent as the music moves around the eight choirs. All forty voices enter simultaneously for a few bars, and then the pattern of the opening is reversed with the music passing from choir eight to choir one. There is another brief full section, after which the choirs sing in antiphonal pairs, throwing the sound across the space between them. Finally all voices join for the culmination of the work. Though composed in imitative style and occasionally homophonic, its individual vocal lines act quite freely within its fairly simple harmonic framework, allowing for an astonishing number of individual musical ideas to be sung during its ten-to-twelve minute performance time. The work is a study in contrasts: the individual voices sing and are silent in turns, sometimes alone, sometimes in choirs, sometimes calling and answering, sometimes all together, so that, far from being a monotonous mess, the work is continually presenting new ideas.
The work is not often performed, as it requires at least forty singers capable of meeting its technical demands. The discipline that comes with performing the masterpiece is highlighted in the importance of the conductor and the performers alike. Whilst performers are distributed throughout a venue, the conductor becomes truly the hub for the piece throughout, as often there is little or no visibility between the performers, and a large venue will present acoustical challenges, not regarded with traditional choirs co-located.
You know what privilege is? It’s not having to expend the mental energy to do certain things or even having to think about doing certain thing. Another fun fact your perceptions and reactions are yours and yours alone and as a general rule of thumb should *not* be generalized other people. Let’s take a look at just one small etymology of one of the most simplest and most common words in the English language. The word “No”.
“Women are socialized to make men feel good. We’re socialized to “let you down easy.” We’re not socialized to say a clear and direct “no.” We’re socialized to speak in hints and boost egos and let people save face. People who don’t respect the social contract (rapists, predators, assholes, pickup artists) are good at taking advantage of this. “No” is something we have to learn. “No” is something we have to earn. In fact, I’d argue that the ability to just say “no” to something, without further comment, apology, explanation, guilt, or thinking about it is one of the great rites of passage in growing up, and when you start saying it and saying it regularly the world often pushes back. And calls you names.”
— The art of “no.” « CaptainAwkward.com
If there is so much that goes into saying “no” for women, does it not follow that other tasks and routines in society are also significantly different for women as well. Yes Dudes, I’m talking to you – take half a minute and think about what your life might be like if saying “NO” is this much of fucking big deal.
Now dear Equalists and Humanists tell me another frakking story about how we share a “common experience” in society and how your prescriptions are going to fix the patriarchal bullshit that pervades our culture. This idea of a completely similar shared experience needs to die a quick and painful death because it erases the experiences of one gender and invalidates attempts to fix and modify the sexist and patriarchal fabric of our society.
“The most terrible thing about pornography is that it tells male truth. The most insidious thing about pornography is that it tells
male truth as if it were universal truth. Those depictions of women in chains being tortured are supposed to represent our deepest erotic aspirations. And some of us believe it, don’t we? The most important thing about pornography is that the values in it are the common values of men. This is the crucial fact that both the male Right and the male Left, in their differing but mutually reinforcing ways, want to keep hidden from women. The male Right wants to hide the pornography, and the male Left wants to hide its meaning. Both want access to pornography so that men can be encouraged and energized by it. The Right wants secret access; the Left wants public access.”
— Andrea Dworkin, Pornography and Grief
Dr.Krauss is not really comfortable speaking in this format, but lays down some of the basic technical challenges faced by those who would construct the world’s first quantum computer.
I wish I had thought of this.
Patriarchy is a term used to describe a system in which males are socialized at birth to acquire a set of attributes that are meant to maintain a sex-specific hierarchical system that establishes them as superior to females and grants them more access and opportunities in social spheres that allows for male control and dominance in economics, politics and the general culture (which also includes media).
In a society in which males are more likely to act violently against females and other males and females are usually the ones subjected to acts of sexual violence by males, it’s significant that as a culture, we denounce any practices, beliefs or reactions that reinforce cultural attitudes that maintains rape culture. A culture in which the victim of rape – typically female – is criticized, ridiculed, insulted and degraded by the society at large as responsible for being victimized.
Furthermore, it’s important that we remove any fetishizing or sexualizing stigmas to acts of violence against women because it reinforces rape myths, such as “rape is not that bad,” “rape is sexy”, myths that are misleading and makes it far more difficult for the individuals who internalize these myths to sympathize with the victims and support them.
Becoming sexually aroused at violence against women is a product of a society that continuously sexualizes females – treating them of objects, not only of desire, but of contempt, even while dying. Females are treated as something to be used and degraded rather than people who’s boundaries and limitations are to be acknowledged and respected.
We encourage empathy, sex-critical feminist ethics and the belief that in order to dismantle patriarchy, destroy rape culture, de-popularize porn culture myths and attitudes, we must begin by calling out those who consume violent pornographic media that turns misogyny into something titillating and we must consider the societal repercussions of being conditioned in a culture that treats violence against women and girls as comedy and pornography.
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