producer snafu Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 for reals. http://time.com/2987574/thor-will-now-officially-be-a-woman-in-marvel-comics/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delet... Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 /sales plummet, marvel back tracks. These books are male fantasy, i don't see why they need to pander to a demographic that will never buy your product. nwae whatever, it's only a comic book that i don't read either, lol. That water colour in the link is okish. They did miss their chance though, she is still blonde, surely that's racist; she's ambulatory, well that's discriminatory; she probably eats meat, doesn't worship jesus and isn't gay. Oh my. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bronchuseven Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 This thread needs some Jon Mikl Thor, star of Rock n Roll Nightmare Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoodie Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 this is dumb. why not introduce a new female superhero instead of shoehorning it into an established canon? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goDel Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 Finally. I was waiting for a substitute for my juvenile sexist fantasy called Xena, the princess warrior. Another bitch with a banhammer. *spanks self* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 I've got Jospehine. I can't have any more women in my life... and nor do I want to Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petina Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 Thanks for changing the title. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soloman Tump Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 Why not just change the title to Thorlita. Has anyone ever seen a woman using a hammer? FML Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chim Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 My viking ancestors are turning in their graves Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugh Mughnus Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 this is dumb. why not introduce a new female superhero instead of shoehorning it into an established canon? exactly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcbpete Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 Thanks for changing the title.I wasn't too happy with the rather misogynistic original - tongue in cheek or no. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soloman Tump Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 I know its a comic book, but it is based loosely on Norse Mythology... in which case Although our sources of information are limited, it's clear that the roles of men and women in Norse society were quite distinct. Norse society was male dominated. Each gender had a set of expected behaviors, and that line could not be crossed with impunity. I think it just as unlikely that a man would weave cloth as that a woman would participate in a Viking raid. Women did not participate in trading or raiding parties (although they clearly participated in journeys of exploration and settlement to places such as Iceland and Vínland). Women's responsibilities were clearly defined to be domestic. Members of either sex who crossed the gender line were, at very least, ostracized by society. Some cross-gender behaviors were strictly prohibited by law. The medieval Icelandic lawbook Grágás (K 254) prohibits women from wearing men's clothes, from cutting their hair short, or from carrying weapons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugh Mughnus Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 I know its a comic book, but it is based loosely on Norse Mythology... in which case Although our sources of information are limited, it's clear that the roles of men and women in Norse society were quite distinct. Norse society was male dominated. Each gender had a set of expected behaviors, and that line could not be crossed with impunity. I think it just as unlikely that a man would weave cloth as that a woman would participate in a Viking raid. Women did not participate in trading or raiding parties (although they clearly participated in journeys of exploration and settlement to places such as Iceland and Vínland). Women's responsibilities were clearly defined to be domestic. Members of either sex who crossed the gender line were, at very least, ostracized by society. Some cross-gender behaviors were strictly prohibited by law. The medieval Icelandic lawbook Grágás (K 254) prohibits women from wearing men's clothes, from cutting their hair short, or from carrying weapons. you should post that to their twitter and see it blow up on them. I don't have twitter =( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 fuck that shit, gods are unisex/gender and everything, and rise far above our cultural gender roles and norms. having proclaimed that, this hypersexual symbolization is a mockery. but yeah, don't care that much to feel flushed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iococoi Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 Whoa! What's next? Grizzly Adams? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triachus Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 comicbook universes are genderfluid otherkin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugh Mughnus Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 fuck that shit, gods are unisex/gender and everything what? since when? I'd love to see a source that supports this statement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugh Mughnus Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 Lol all the major female goddesses are depicted as virgins, objects of sex, or child bearing figures (other than Demeter). edit: sorry, this is from greek mythology. Looking up norse and it's quite similar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bechuga Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 Thoress: Domestic Goddess The comics will still be pants anyway, regardless of whether the main character is wearing them or not. It's just a short gap measure to sell an extra few copies of the 1st issue of the run before they kill off the character and go back to whatever bland story they were telling before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadameChaos Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 i approve of this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterE Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 hilarious Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCM Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 more like phwoooar amirite lads? lads? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doublename Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 Sif had a comic. No one bought it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delet... Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 i approve of this i certainly approve of her theme song. It's disney that owns marvel now. They probably were having a pow wow about needing a female lead that they can dump into every toy line, clothing, bedding and whatever plastic accessory they can cram down the throats of the girls of the world. And apparently thor was only major character they felt that they could comfortably retool without rocking the sales boat too hard. They couldn't give a fig about fans or cannon or mythology. And if this little ride doesn't work, someone will get fired and we'll go back to trousers thor, and leave tittie Mc time of the month (that's when the bad guys really down want to upset her (deal with it petina, oh and welcome to watmm , you might want to read the rules, they are down the bottom right hand corner, i hope you have a nice time here)) to the dustbin of history. Maybe in 20 years the comic will become a collectors item, by then the 2 million other copies will have dwindled down to a few thousand. Or this is completely wrong and they wanted to sex up the marvel universe, and so this whole thing was an attempt to bring boys back into buying comics instead of playing computer games. (see, just because i think something, doesn't mean that i can't think another thing, and believe that either may be right, don't pigeon hole me mutha fukaz, i'm awesome). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squee Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 People care about this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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