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Date: 2010-09-04 11:13 am (UTC)Also, mandatory "Gay, exciting places."
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Date: 2010-09-04 11:25 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-09-04 11:35 am (UTC)"Of course I'm crying! My frigging uncle is declaring his lust for me while we're dancing!"
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Date: 2010-09-04 03:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-04 01:53 pm (UTC)"Mom, why can't I look the same as everyone else!"
"Don't worry dear. Conformity just comes later for some girls. You'll lose that weight and be happily married to Steve, the first boy to give you the time of day, and live happily ever after in a stifling marriage that will stifle any sense of hope and creativity you have. I'll teach you how to bottle all those feelings up inside until your eventual suicide. Anyway, get ready for Steve."
~Jari goes to help her aunt~
"Well I'm all better now. I would say thank you Jari, but you're too ugly and fat for thank yous. We need to totally reshape everything you are to better conform to society. Then you'll deserve to live."
~days later~
"Wow Jari! If you weren't related to me, I'd have sex with you. I'm glad you took that well. Women usually find it strange when I tell them that. Broads huh?"
"I'm charmed by the fact that my uncle wanted to bang me."
~thus begins a whirlwind time for Jari. She scandalously touches men's shoulders. She dates, she dances with more than one man in an evening.~
"Jari! It's me Steve! I hope you haven't forgotten our inevitable marriage!"
"Steve, I don't want-"
"YOU WILL COME TO A TRAGIC END YOU STRUMPET! JUST YOU WAIT! Now let me kiss you one last time."
"I'm charmed by the fact that he sexually assaulted me."
~soon she tries everywhere for love~
"Excuse me Miss Jari. I need you to work on some papers! And my work I mean suck and by papers I mean my penis!"
"I'm charmed by the fact thta I'm a victim or workplace harassment!"
"OH NO! A MAN WHO WAS EXTREMELY INTERESTED IN MY FATHER'S BANKING BUSINESS AND WHO BROUGHT IT UP ON EVERY DATE ENDED UP BEING A BANK ROBBER! THIS CAME OUT OF NOWHERE!"
~Steve pops out and punches the man using his fist of 50's white male justice~
"Eat privilege you scum! Jari! If only you has listened to me! A man! Now, we will be married and live happily ever after!"
"...... Man fuck all ya'll. I'm gonna go write a book. God damn this decade sucks balls"
The true story of Betty Friedan
If Romance Comics were 500 times more honest.
Date: 2010-09-04 03:07 pm (UTC)"his fist of 50's white male justice"
"If only you has listened to me! A man!"
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Date: 2010-09-04 07:22 pm (UTC)lol @ the '50's White Male Privilege' or 'Eat Privilege scum!'
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Date: 2010-09-06 02:02 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-09-04 03:14 pm (UTC)They also apparently hated facial hair. The main character never marries the guy with the moustache.
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Date: 2010-09-04 05:02 pm (UTC)The concept behind it is that the comics altered from featuring fairly independent women to the 50s & 60s conformity that you see in this one.
though here, I'm more disturbed by the fact that if you'll just get thin, your life will be teh awesome.
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Date: 2010-09-06 02:18 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-09-06 03:06 am (UTC)I remember one I read - drawn by Steranko, I think - that had the heroine assisting a famous film director as a summer intern or something. He's an absolute jerk to her, and to everyone else, but, y'know, he's kinda hunky, despite the fact that he's twice her age, so she hopes that he'll fall for her.
Well, he doesn't... and he doesn't... and he keeps on not falling, and generally being an unattractive person. She explains this away as him being talented and temperamental. As the summer wears on and he keeps screaming at all and sundry, her friends tell her it's not gonna happen - logic starts telling her it's not gonna happen - WE'D tell her it's not gonna happen, if we could break through the fourth wall and shake some sense into her. And finally, on the last day of her internship, she's realized that maybe this guy is NOT all she's cracked him up to be, and she's just about to leave the studio for the last time - and THEN he goes 'oh, darling, don't you know you're the one I love?', and she goes 'OMGOMGOMG' (I'm paraphrasing), flings logic out the window and leaps into his arms - last panel.
You just KNOW that she's setting herself up for a broken heart. There's not the slightest doubt that this guy is playing her for a little nookie, and then will dump her faster than Speedy Gonzales on a sugar high. Every ounce of common sense tells you that the man has NOT, in point of fact, gone through a miraculous transformation into a decent human being - but COMMON sense is not ROMANTIC sense, and if they hadn't ended the story right at that moment, we wouldn't have been able to go 'awww' before our brains kicked in and we went 'waiiiiiiiiiit a minute'... I guess the publishers were counting on the typical audience for such things not having the inclination to go 'waiiiiiiiiiit a minute' - and, to be fair, they were probably right, more's the pity.
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Date: 2010-09-05 01:33 pm (UTC)--LBD "Nytetrayn"