(This is a response to a particular blog post criticizing the new AMC TV show, Comic Book Men. The author, whose blog title claims it’s her cape, goes on about how awful it is that there are no female recurring characters in the first season of the show. And OK, I’ll admit it up front. I’m totally hot for one of the guys in particular.)
Q: Why are there no women in the reality tv show, Comic Book Men?
A: Because, there are no women who work at Jay & Silent Bob’s Secret Stash.
And oh, by the way, it’s a show based on the store and if there are no women in the inner circle at the store, well then, inserting one just for the sake of inserting one would be sort of phony, right?
In fact, I presume that casting a woman in the pilot was probably done for a noble purpose – women SHOULD be included in the landscape of Fabulous Geekdom because there ARE so many amazing women artists, collectors and geek-girls living and working all around us.
However, (this is just my speculation) if a gal didn’t make the cut, so to speak, maybe those good intentions didn’t ‘feel’ real?
In any case, I groan when I read (obvious, shameless) opportunistic bellyaching about there being no chicks in Comic Book Men.
Please, for Goddess’ sake…Stop Whining. Cast off the shrill, harpy shroud and REALLY don that cape.
If you feel you need to act, use your power for more than bitching about what you DON’T have. Strap (or, in case of cape, tie) one on and use your power for good.
Call to action: All the heroic women who know how to get great things done, and we are legion, — support Comic Book Men with all your might. Watch it. Tweet and Facebook awesome things about it. Recommend it. Revel in it because it will shine a bright light on the righteous geek girls and boys who are going to frolic in the sun and whoop it up big-time now that it’s the coolest thing going to be a geek.
Then, when ratings are soaring, people are cheering and the whole world is clamoring for more…launch your own, all-girl, kick-ass version. A mate, or complement as it were. Then, all that energy, enthusiasm and thirst for more that’s out there will spill out and into your time slot, loving you and celebrating you like the geek goddesses you are.
Your cape? Really.
Prove it.
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