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Done doing these so here they all are in one place! Fully Dressed Redesigns of Superheroines.
Point of this: An exercise in character design, attempting to clothe the heroines nearly all the way and not making them painted-on, while still keeping the look of their original costumes in some way. Hopefully keeping them looking as iconic as the originally were. Just showing what can be done with a costume breaking outside the barrier of the norm.
NOT the point of this: some moral code I’m trying to push on you
Sorry if there was a character you wanted me to do that I didn’t get to!
"[Parents should] recommend some books with female leads that your son would enjoy reading. If your next question is “Why?,” then ask your daughter why she liked Harry Potter. She might say it was a good story, great characters, and a fantastic world. Who cares if the main character was a boy? In fact, girls will pick up a book with a hero or heroine equally. According to my excellent librarian resources, boys will actively avoid books with a girl as the main character. What’s the problem? I have no idea. Why should you encourage your son to read books with heroines? That’s easy. You want your son to grow up knowing that a strong female for a friend, wife or boss is normal and good."
Rebecca Angel (via divinehours)
This ties into Shannon Hale’s discussion from earlier: http://shannonhale.tumblr.com/post/27853826082/why-boys-dont-read-girls-sometimes.
(Source: msandrogynous, via shannonhale)
Shannon Hale: On hate
Shannon Hale is not just a brilliant writer but also an excellent human being!
Shannon Hale: In Defense of Twilight
We can’t attack Stephenie Meyer because she is rich. We can’t attack Stephenie Meyer because her book and the woman herself have moved beyond the real and have become cultural icons. What is wrong with girls having power to choose when they want to have sex? What is wrong with… I agree passionately with what Mette says here with just one tiny change. I don’t believe Bella’s choice to keep her baby is “anti-feminist.” It was a choice. If the book showed Bella wanting to abort but being pressured into keeping her baby, I could see a problem (in fact all her loved ones are encouraging her to abort for her own sake, but she sticks to her guns). If the book showed multiple young women who all made the same choice as if it were the only correct choice for everyone, I could see a problem. But this is one woman who makes her own choice. Feminism advocates for women to have the opportunity to make choices and live their lives according to their best desires and full potential, not hindered by their gender. If feminism has changed and only advocates for women’s right to make choices that always agree with me/you/the group/some ideology, then feminism won’t work anymore. I recently heard a writer speaking at a conference (a writer I respect, like, and who has had objectively admirable success). When asked by the audience to name a favorite book, he answered, “I’ll tell you one I wish had never been written: Twilight.” It was an unnecessary and petty comment, I thought, but what really troubled me was the audience’s reaction: they applauded and cheered. I’ve encountered similar scenes dozens of times.By all means, don’t like Twilight. Don’t read it. Or read it and have intelligent conversations about why you don’t like it. But I question why it’s become okay to hate, mock, demean, ridicule this writer woman and her series that’s loved by so many women. One thing I like about tumblr is it’s organized around the positive. You like a post. You reblog a post. You ignore the negative. This seems healthy to me. I think we’re all happier when we define ourselves not by what we hate but by what we love.
metteivieharrison: In Defense of Twilight
We can’t attack Stephenie Meyer because she is rich. We can’t attack Stephenie Meyer because her book and the woman herself have moved beyond the real and have become cultural icons. What is wrong with girls having power to choose when they want to have sex? What is wrong with…
(Source: thechosenjuan, via guerrillafeminism)
Odd Man Out: Chick-Fil-Activism
“The problem is much bigger than chicken sandwiches and gay marriage, though; the growing trend I mentioned earlier is an unwillingness to suffer with the world in order to empower others to maintain the difficult, counter-cultural values certain Christians profess. It’s much easier to vote against legalized abortions than it is to help a pregnant, impoverished teenager raise a child. It’s less work to enforce stricter penalties on drug users than it is to walk with a friend through the torment of detoxing. And it’s much easier to eat a chicken sandwich in support of traditional marriage than it is to navigate difficult questions about sexual identity and God’s will with actual human beings who experience nontraditional sexuality.”
One Teacher’s Approach to Preventing Gender Bullying in a Classroom
Alie arrived at our 1st-grade classroom wearing a sweatshirt with a hood. I asked her to take off her hood, and she refused. I thought she was just being difficult and ignored it. After breakfast we got in line for art, and I noticed that she still had not removed her hood. When we arrived at the art room, I said: “Allie, I’m not playing. It’s time for art. The rule is no hoods or hats in school.”
She looked up with tears in her eyes and I realized there was something wrong. Her classmates went into the art room and we moved to the art storage area so her classmates wouldn’t hear our conversation. I softened my tone and asked her if she’d like to tell me what was wrong.
“My ponytail,” she cried.
“Can I see?” I asked.
She nodded and pulled down her hood. Allie’s braids had come undone overnight and there hadn’t been time to redo them in the morning, so they had to be put back in a ponytail. It was high up on the back of her head like those of many girls in our class, but I could see that to Allie it just felt wrong. With Allie’s permission, I took the elastic out and re-braided her hair so it could hang down.
“How’s that?” I asked.
She smiled. “Good,” she said and skipped off to join her friends in art.
‘Why Do You Look Like a Boy?’
