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No! You are proposing that marketing executives don't know that the success of Twilight was due to its female audience. Even you know that the success of Twilight was due to its female audience. You're suggesting they looked at the audience and said "wow, that's a lot of... book nerds. Quick, option books!"

Also, even if somehow they did think that, there are lots of successful book series marketed to girls, but they're not being made into movies; so your 'explanation' sucks on two levels.

Hi, we live in a capitalist society. It's sexist. Most of the world is free market capitalism these days, and greed doesn't 'overcome' sexism; the more sexist capitalist countries simply buy and sell women like chattel. Sexism informs our attitudes and therefore the decisions we take; if we're sexist, we'll make sexist decisions whether we're Communists or Chicago School economists.

You are arguing Twilight cannot be duplicated because it is an adaption of a succesful book series; as I said, there are many such series directed at women, so your argument fails. Further, what of Titanic? Success due largely to women, and yet no attempts to target this audience with similar big budget spectacular romances with engaging female main characters. I fully expect you to come up with excuses for the studio executives. "Oh they probably thought its success was due to the popularity of large boats so they made a lot of large boat movies, totally reasonable!"

Yes, sexism doesn't always win. That's due to constant pressure by the aforemention Y and Z who are not sexist; Jodie Foster is one of them. That does not mean that the industry isn't mostly sexist, and you're continually trying to draw attention away from that and suggest other reasons for people's sexist actions.

So you started out commenting about sexism in a comic and now you're pouting that you didn't want to have a conversation about sexism? Yeah, I think you have poor decision making skills. May I suggest that if you don't want to discuss sexism in comics you don't come into posts about sexism in comics and start talking about sexism in comics?

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