With Amy Adams’ incarnation of Lois Lane in Man of Steel we finally get an attempt to characterize our heroine as a modern shit-talking, hard-drinking, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. The early glimpses of Lois are not perfect, but they show us why more-than-ever we need a female superhero.

From what I am hearing, Amy Adams’ Lois is the coolest yet. As for a female superhero, I vote Captain Marvel. Carol is super-powerful, badass, smart, a charismatic leader, has the coolest costume ever, and has a fast-growing fanbase thanks to Kelly Sue DeConnick and the Carol Corps. Also she has a cat and awesome female superhero friends. I need a Captain Marvel film like yesterday.

laurennmcc:

While this is an awesome piece, & says a lot of things I recognize, it depresses me more than a little. Because I think the people who need to read this will never read this. Because there an awful lot of dudes out there who think that it is their right to run an ongoing commentary on the bodies of women. Hell, I know dudes that do that all the time, see nothing wrong with it, and get pissed at me calling them out on it. 

I guess what I am saying is that I know my ladies will reblog this and recognize it. I wish my dudes would do the same.

paulftompkins:

“Ask your female friends, if you have any, if they’ve ever walked home late at night with a key pushed through their knuckles, just in case, if they’ve ever crossed the street to avoid a stranger, just in case, if they’ve ever taken the long way home because of the weird guy on the corner, just in case. Ask them if they’ve ever made up a boyfriend to get a guy to leave them alone, if they’ve ever gotten off a train car and moved to the next because you just never know, if they’ve ever shelled out for a cab because men like you were at the bus stop.”

This is a great, well-written piece by Emily Heist Moss. Read the whole thing.

The answer to all of the above questions is, unfortunately, yes.

(via kierongillen)

unwinona:

And then I debated whether or not to put it on Tumblr…but I decided it was important. Because in my own way, I can (unfortunately) point out exactly what is wrong with men when they don’t realize how hard it is to be a woman. How we do not have equal opportunities and freedoms in…

Whenever I go out walking during the evening, I always make sure I’m wearing a ring that looks something like a wedding band.  I wear headphones even if I’m not listening to music, or I pretend to talk on the phone if I’m uncomfortable with a situation.  I hate that I live in a safe neighborhood but still have to put up with this shit from men who think they’re doing you a favor by giving you unwanted attention, or who are offended when they’re rebuffed because they feel like you ought to be pleasant and smile and return their affections, like you owe it to them.  There are of course plenty of guys I walk past every day who are completely respectful and polite and decent, but stories like this are potent reminders that things are definitely not equal.  Men don’t have to take those kinds of precautions every time they go out for a stroll in my neighborhood.