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Breaking briefly away from work to post this, because, wow.
Found in a discussion of Alex DeWitt's death in GREEN LANTERN, posted by someone I know nothing about, who stated:
"As someone who worked on the WiR site let me just jump in and say, ALex was NOT the inspiration for the Women in Refrigerators site. The treatment of women historically in comics was the inspiration. One example being the horrible muddling of Donna Troy that continues to this day. There was even debate amongst those of us involved as to using the title and image because some involved felt Alex death was not "in vain" or a toss aside like many female characters recieved, but that it actually had lasting and believable ramifications on the character and book, and reducing it as such would be unfair to Ron Marz. It actually wasn't till AFTER talking with Ron and him saying he thought it would be a great idea to use it that we did so. Incidentally, one of the main reasons we decided to use is because we knew there were many people like yourself that reduced the scene down without looking at it's total influence. In a sense I guess you could say we were marketing to the LCD."
My initial two reactions:
1) I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell anyone who thinks Alex's death had believable long-term ramifications. Kyle had a nasty tendency to forget all about her, in fact, unless he happened to be standing in front of her grave.
2) He wanted them to use it? "Yes, go ahead and name your site on comic book misogyny after my story, that would be great!" *mind boggles*
And now I have a sudden urge to write about my thoughts about Marz and Alex and refrigerators (which are more complicated than I've probably given the impression of), and I really don't have time. Maybe on the weekend.
Found in a discussion of Alex DeWitt's death in GREEN LANTERN, posted by someone I know nothing about, who stated:
"As someone who worked on the WiR site let me just jump in and say, ALex was NOT the inspiration for the Women in Refrigerators site. The treatment of women historically in comics was the inspiration. One example being the horrible muddling of Donna Troy that continues to this day. There was even debate amongst those of us involved as to using the title and image because some involved felt Alex death was not "in vain" or a toss aside like many female characters recieved, but that it actually had lasting and believable ramifications on the character and book, and reducing it as such would be unfair to Ron Marz. It actually wasn't till AFTER talking with Ron and him saying he thought it would be a great idea to use it that we did so. Incidentally, one of the main reasons we decided to use is because we knew there were many people like yourself that reduced the scene down without looking at it's total influence. In a sense I guess you could say we were marketing to the LCD."
My initial two reactions:
1) I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell anyone who thinks Alex's death had believable long-term ramifications. Kyle had a nasty tendency to forget all about her, in fact, unless he happened to be standing in front of her grave.
2) He wanted them to use it? "Yes, go ahead and name your site on comic book misogyny after my story, that would be great!" *mind boggles*
And now I have a sudden urge to write about my thoughts about Marz and Alex and refrigerators (which are more complicated than I've probably given the impression of), and I really don't have time. Maybe on the weekend.
