From outside our culture
joe g (NH comic book nerd) wrote…
i stumbled on a very interesting way of tackling gender questions today in a very unlikely place – a mainstream superhero comic book. (written by Joss Wedon, he of “Buffy” notoriety)
http://marvel.com/catalog/?id=10425
in it, a self-identified lesbian has a relationship with a shape-shifting gender-neutral alien that has both male and female human forms. one line that really grabbed me was this – (paraphrasing) “when i said i was a lesbian, [alien character] didn’t even blink. i think she was too busy learning to be human to notice what the rest of us think is unusual or improper.”
i’ll take a closer look at this and report back with more.
What’s your experience?
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January 14th, 2009 at 8:37 pm |
please do!
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