Undeclared
March 1st, 2010 Posted by Esther Inglis-ArkellGina Torres talked to Wired Magazine about the excellent Crisis on Two Earths. Here’s the quote that went rocketing around the blogosphere.
There aren’t really any skinny bitches in the world of comic books…they’ve got muscle. . . . What I love about superheroes, and Superwoman in particular, is that in that comics world they’re all curvaceous. They’re strong.
I grew up in what must have been the most friendly high school in the world. I look at Glee, Mean Girls, and Can’t Hardly Wait, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Gossip Girl, and almost every other portrayal of high school and it might as well be some kind of costume drama.
Who grows up in schools like this? In lives like this? I know there are always a few vocal idiots, but I haven’t noticed a war being declared between ’skinny’ and ‘curvy’ women, ‘popular’ and ‘unpopular’ women, or really any other kind of women. At most, the groups are pretty indifferent to each other. More often, they get along just fine.
And yet every quote, every TV show, every comic, and every movie seems to imply that this war is going on.
Where are they getting this from? Is there some secret battleground of which I am unaware?
Sometimes I think that the only reason anyone says stuff like this is they’re trying to sell this fantasy of conflict. It might make a decent trope in fiction, but in real life, it doesn’t make sense.
