Amazing Spider-Man #673
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Peter goes after Strange, demanding to know how Carlie could have uncovered his identity after his spell.

The thing he has to do is give MJ the antidote, since she still has her spider-powers.
Also, Kaine is now scarless, and from the looks of it I'm guessing he's going to be the new Scarlet Spider. I liked what they did with Kaine when they brought him back (before 'killing' him off), but I'm not too crazy about prettifying him and making him some sort of superhero. And why tease the possibility of bringing Ben back?
And Julia Carpenter, the new Madame Web (I still don't understand why they had to kill off the old one and make her the new one) apologizes to Peter about the loss that's to come.
Re: Mod Note
Date: 2011-11-02 08:45 pm (UTC)In this instance, the biggest problem is that "women are irrational and emotionally unstable creatures who overreact without grounds to what men do and say" is one of the big, on going idea that is used to undermine women; and "hysterical" is exactly the sort of word that has been used to do so (connecting irrationality and emotional instability to having a female body, pretty literally).
"Melodramatic" as used by
Re: Mod Note
Date: 2011-11-02 08:53 pm (UTC)I'd be more inclined to consider 'melodramatic' sexist, especially considering the genre of fifties women's films that so defined that particular image (although I think 'melodramatic' is actually more appropriate here, as that is how she's acting). But I would say 'hyperbolic' or 'outrageous' come close, but don't quite cover the definition of 'hysterical'.
And I don't know... sometimes my thoughts on these things are a little unclear. But it seems to me, if we take in account all the words that men have used to demean or undermine women and how much they are apart of our daily vocabulary, it leaves a very limited field of words (in basic vocabulary that is, of course there's a lot of synonyms, but also I'm not a native speaker).
Re: Mod Note
Date: 2011-11-02 09:07 pm (UTC)Re: Mod Note
Date: 2011-11-03 01:42 am (UTC)"In the Western world, until the seventeenth century, hysteria referred to a medical condition thought to be particular to women and caused by disturbances of the uterus (from the Greek ὑστέρα "hystera" = uterus"
If I had to pick a non-sexist synonym, it would be "overemotional"
Re: Mod Note
Date: 2011-11-03 01:44 am (UTC)Re: Mod Note
Date: 2011-11-02 09:18 pm (UTC)However, I respect the ethos of the community and will avoid using it- but I think it a little unnecessary as more people using the correct terminology (because it wasn't a gendered word in the first place) can disassociate connotations.
Re: Mod Note
Date: 2011-11-02 10:10 pm (UTC)This I did not know.
Re: Mod Note
Date: 2011-11-02 10:51 pm (UTC)Re: Mod Note
Date: 2011-11-03 12:31 am (UTC)Re: Mod Note
Date: 2011-11-03 12:49 am (UTC)Re: Mod Note
Date: 2011-11-03 01:03 pm (UTC)There's a huuuuge amount of men(and some women) who consider that only MEN can use logic, and women are only capable of reacting emotionally, because of hormones and periods and tiny lady brains. So describing an excited, angry woman as hysterical taps into that whole vast aspect of dismissing women's anger because their feelings aren't considered valid.
Hysterical as in funny is a different ballgame, though - I really doubt anyone would object if you said you found Amanda Connor's art hysterically funny.
Re: Mod Note
Date: 2011-11-03 07:52 pm (UTC)Re: Mod Note
Date: 2011-11-04 01:28 am (UTC)