Romance Comics, and FEMINISM

[lang_ea.insanejournal.com]

Just want to share and point to a link from a very nice blog; 'Lady That's My Skull'

And I really want to share, most especially as I stumbled on a posting of a certain romance comic of the 70s (my fave); but also a rare one that...erm, talks about 'feminism' and how it's been related with this media material.
Still, I really should not relate how I was rendered completely speechless by how WHACKED the characters and story idea is. Not really about how feminism is dismissed as 'a whatchamacallit that OTHER women are obsessed about'; but more on...well, seriously, you just HAVE to read it to get what I mean.

A Marvel Romance Comic 'My Love' , published in 1973. Read and gawp, people; read and gawp.

http://thatsmyskull.blogspot.com/2007/12/my-love-10-no-man-is-my-master.html

Also, rather meaningless question; but does this guy look familiar? Seriously, I keep seeing that same face and hair cut creeping up constantly? What was going on, some movie star of bygone days influencing that look? :S

Comments

[halloweenjack.insanejournal.com]

I think that it's just Generic 70s Dude, also spotted in the pages of Playboy.

[lang_ea.insanejournal.com]

Oh okay. I wasn't so sure. For a moment there I thought it was taken off of Oliver Reed (DAMN, did he terrify me when I saw him as Bill Sykes as a kid).

Still, he does look like he's trying to hold in something in the first page, I swear to god.

[mechanicaljewel.insanejournal.com]

I read the whole thing, and...oh dear.

I think I'll just leave it at that.

[lang_ea.insanejournal.com]

Oh dear is a better reaction than the choking sounds I made when I found it.

I mean, not like it insults me or anything; just at that crazy heroine who can't seem to know how to interact and date someone properly (funny enough, that's what actually bothered me) XD.

God man, everything she thinks is going wrong on a date could easily be fixed by simple common sense. Don't like waiting in the cold? Go meet inside somewhere. Don't want to contribute any ideas to do on a date? Then don't go out! Jeez!

[stig.insanejournal.com]

Oh, Stan. Always classy.

[lang_ea.insanejournal.com]

I know, right? Especially Bev's quote: "Female freedom isn't about dates--or Romance! It's about job equality
--and things like that."

I totally lol'd at that last part. SURE, Bev; like you'd know what work is. Or...femme equality at that matter.

[geoffsebesta.insanejournal.com]

I bet she has a Ph D. in "Things Like That."

[midare.insanejournal.com]

*has no words*

[strannik01.insanejournal.com]

And this, my friends, is why romance comics died a well-deserved death in the 1970s.

[espanolbot.insanejournal.com]

Ah, these things were always fair in their depiction of women,

[lang_ea.insanejournal.com]

WHOA-HO-HO! MAN! Ba-ZING!

Either this comic is responsible for doing the 'slutty babysitter/married man' trope overdone, or it already was before this? I don't even know.

Still, reminds me of Scary Movie 2; "I'm positive my husband's having an affair with the baby-sitter. Especially since we don't have any children."

Ah, awesome. I wonder how this trainwreck interpreted the actual story? :3

[espanolbot.insanejournal.com]

Probably with the subtly of the implict incest subplot of this one,
(http://img91.imageshack.us/i/blog17ht130cover.jpg/)

[lang_ea.insanejournal.com]

(http://s41.photobucket.com/albums/e298/banmiko/?action=view&current=mat20090214.png)

Yeah, this pic expresses alot.

Where'd you get this stuff anyway?!

[espanolbot.insanejournal.com]

Well the first I had saved on my computer from Aggggeeeessss ago and can't remember where I got it from, and the second I got from the Superdickery.com forum.

[kamino_neko.insanejournal.com]

Eulice! Hello!

[volksjager.insanejournal.com]

That green dress is THE worst...

[strannik01.insanejournal.com]

Either this comic is responsible for doing the 'slutty babysitter/married man' trope overdone, or it already was before this? I don't even know.

This trope has been around since at least Victorian era.

[tsunamiwombat.insanejournal.com]

Mostly because of the tremendous amount of repression in the culture of that era (sex even between a married couple was frowned upon except strictly for procreation), wealthy men usually found 'relief' with their servants on the slide.

See also, Thomas Jefferson and his you-know-whats.

[red_cyclone.insanejournal.com]

Hence in The Crimson Petal and The White the man moving a prostitute in to be his daughter's governess.

[icon_uk.insanejournal.com]

More recently seen in "Doctor Who: The Next Doctor" Christmas special, where the faux-Doctor's companion is a Rosita, who was working as a prostitute. At the end of the episode, the Doctor recommends she stay with the family as a governess/companion, as she had shown initiative and courage when facing the Cybermen.

[petalsinthewind.insanejournal.com]

:|

[lady_mondegreen.insanejournal.com]

The waiter's a jerk, too. Why doesn't he just ask her directly, instead of speaking about her like she's not even in the room?

[fredneil.livejournal.com (from insanejournal.com)]

Since he knows Mr. Howard by name, he was probably faced with the choice of being polite to someone he might never see again or staying on the good side of a regular customer.

No matter how many times I see this, every time shocks me just the same.

[ccsharumun.insanejournal.com]

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[superfan1.insanejournal.com]

Ye Gods that was unbearable.

[icon_uk.insanejournal.com]

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear....