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A friend who has daughters shared with me this article about a guy who bought a Justice League board game to play with his daughter, only to find out there that there wasn’t a single female superhero in the game<\/a>. Seriously?<\/p>\n

I find it baffling that there are so few female characters in superhero movies, and that those few seem to get left out of the merchandising so often. I assume that women who like superheroes like female superheroes, and I know that guys like female superheroes (Black Widow was the best thing about the second Iron Man movie). So who is it at these marketing companies that keeps making the bone-head decision to drop Wasp from the Avengers but keep Hawkeye (a character so lame that he’s become the poster-child for ostensibly sexist comicbook art<\/a>, overlooking the fact that any<\/strong> art with Hawkeye in it looks ridiculous<\/a>), or to leave Gamorra out of the Guardians Of The Galaxy merchandise<\/a>? We, the people who buy this stuff, totally dig the female characters (for different reasons maybe, but that’s okay). So who are the idiots in board rooms saying, “No, no, no! We can’t have Supergirl or Batgirl or Power Girl or Wonder Woman or Black Canary or Batwoman or Jade in this movie\/game\/poster\/action figure set, that’s just crazy talk!”, and why are people still listening to them?<\/p>\n

The board game story has a more or less upbeat (if not entirely happy) ending<\/a>. Even so, the whole thing mystifies me, it truly does.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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