[ SECRET POST #1660 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1660 ⌋


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

This.

I also hate that it's still considered 'weird' for girls to see horror or action movies EVEN THOUGH I ALWAYS SEE HEAPS OF GIRLS AT THE CINEMA WHEN THEY ARE RELEASED! Because nooooo, we only have to be interested in 'chick flicks'. Ugh.

[mistaria.livejournal.com]

This this, so much this. And I add any articles about comic books by major newspapers/news sources. They always act SO surprised that girls can be and are comic book fans.

[ruadragon.livejournal.com]

Oh yes. I haven't met anyone in RL who thinks girls playing D&D or videos games or reading comic books is weird, but in media these things are always portrayed as stuff only guys do, even media produced on the internet, which you think would be less out of touch.

I think the worst one I saw was on a popular anime discussion vlog, one of the episodes was about whether girls actually read manga. 60% of manga readers are female. So yes, yes they do.

[cheshirecat324.livejournal.com]

It confuses the hell out of me that people still think this. Every once in a while I almost convince myself that those people who get all shocked at girls liking action movies aren't actually real and have been made up by the internet because nobody is really that dense, and then I meet another one.

[(Anonymous)]

mte. i even have a female friend who is like this. she only watches chick flicks and rom-coms and always grumbles her way through anything else, because god forbid a female watches anything not directly targeted towards them. it's as though society and the media has convinced her she can't enjoy anything that isn't cutesy or romantic. she won't even try to enjoy things that aren't rom-coms or family films.

i also hate the implication that a film has to be 'targetted' at females... and anything that isn't, is automatically defaulted for males. so we get 'chick flicks' and drama, while men get action, horror, adventure, suspense, thriller and comedy. pffft. i'm sure just as many females went to see Transformers 3 as males.

[cold-river-blue.livejournal.com]

Um, maybe you should let your friend have her own thoughts and taste in films. Jesus, the only thing more annoying that being expected to like a certain thing because of my vagina is being told I shouldn't like something just because you don't, and we both have vaginas.

[topwithens.livejournal.com]

Yes, this!

[(Anonymous)]

i'd have no problem with her having her own taste in films...if she at least attempted to have an open opinion on non 'chick' films. we often have movie nights and everybody sits through each others' movies. so we sit through her chick flick films (i don't even mind chick flick films) but as soon as someone pops in an adventure film or a horror film, she'll start whining that it's a 'boys movie' and that it's boring and that we're weird for liking such 'manly' movies...before the movie has even started. yet she expects us to sit through her films without saying a word against it. it's frustrating. i just want to say: hey, it's ok. you can like non chick flicks. it's not 'weird' anymore.

[la-petite-singe.livejournal.com]

I am also getting fairly sick of the there-are-no-girls-in-comic-book-stores-ever cliche. There most certainly are!!

[(Anonymous)]

that's right! There's me... and the owner's girlfriend that's in her late twenties and dresses like she's thirteen.

Which is still better than when I actually used to work at a comic book store and the guys would come in just to see the oddity that was female in front of them.

Luckily it's not that way the world over. But it's also not exactly unheard of either. My D and D gaming group however is three girls and two guys. Take that 'girls don't dungeon crawl'.

[otakugal15.livejournal.com]

We have one particular comic shop in our city that almost screams this stereotype. :/ I've gotten picked on a bit before cause I'm not a religious comic reader and show up every now then to buy my graphic novels. I just don't do the single issue thing every week. Plus, they tend to watch when a girl or two wander in. It gets unnerving.

However, we also have one other shop in the city, in fact, it's on the opposite side of the city, that is way more friendly to it's female customers and doesn't do anything at all that makes it seem funny when we DO show up. Just last week, they had a Magic tournament and there were a few girls involved. It was awesome (i'm not a magic player, but it was nice seeing some there).

In fact, I asked the guy, who works and owns the shop, a few weeks back if they had any copies of Gotham City Sirens. He said they didn't, but happily ordered them for the shop so that when I went back a week later, they were on the shelf.

[(Anonymous)]

I think last year or the year before there was actually an article in Entertainment Weekly discussing the growth of female fans with horror films. More women attend horror films these days than men do. I am pretty sure Hollywood is aware of it now, but in general I guess people tend to think that women don't like that genre. And I laugh at people who assume women don't like action films. Action films generally make easy cash cuz it appeals to more than just guys, duh.

[relmneiko.livejournal.com]

I wasn't aware that horror films were even a guy thing. Watching horror films has been like the staple of every sleepover I've been to since I was 7. And I worked for 3 years at a video store, and I think I can safely say that horror films are more popular with women than with men.

I think part of it is that horror flicks tend to have female protagonists (because of the feeling of vulnerability I guess) in exciting, non-romantic situations and explore a lot of interesting stuff from a female perspective, especially when they get psychological. I can think of a number of horror films that are pretty much all about women. (Dark Water is a good one).