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wow, this not-adressing-teenager-thing has been a point i haven't thought about until now. but now it seems obvious, thank you for that! ... but actually, what do you think about the general minority of heroINES - or, what's even worse in my opinion, that there's like ONE woman and MANY men, take Star Wars, take the Avengers, take Robin Hood, take Big Bang Theory ... It's all just ONE Woman and they're dressing in bikinis (Wonder Woman, Red Sonja, Leia,...)

I do think it’s getting better, I mean, it’s better than when I was a kid.  I mean I get that there needs to be more representation, for sure, I mean I’m a black girl, the number of us in a comic or whatever is slim, but it’s getting there.  For example, when I was growing up, I didn’t have an entire line dedicated to the Disney princesses.  And sure we can talk about how there’s only one black one, it needs to be more diverse (it would be nice if it was), how it’s rare that you get all of them (like Pocahontas and stuff), and a number of things, but it is a start.  It’s something.  It would’ve been nice to have that as a kid.  

There’s also the argument of, “All they do is get rescued,” and then THAT turns into a whole THING and just, I get tired of doing that.  Some of them wanted to be rescued from legitimate things, you know, someone trying to KILL THEM all because they were pretty.  And just… we could go on, and on, and on, but at the end of the day it’s nice to see a shelf with some ladies when it’s back to school time, you know? 

As for clothing, yeah that can be better, but I don’t want to hate on these women because of it.  I mean there’s a bunch of series full of short skirts, bouncing breasts, and all that, and yeah I can ask, “Why does it have to be like that,” and that is a good question.  At the same time, I don’t want to look down on these women, you know?  Like, “ugh Wonder Woman can’t stand the way she dresses ugh.”  Because she IS strong, and she IS able to stand toe to toe with the likes of Superman and Batman, and I’d rather be happy about that.    

That at sometimes people poke at it in the canon, like I was watching Justice League and there was some guy doing a show on how terrible the heroes are because “they do whatever they want, blah blah blah,” and he pointed out Wonder Woman’s outfit, like, “Does she HAVE to run around like that?”  Green Lantern and Flash were watching with her, and she was like, “What’s wrong with the way I dress?!" 

Flash looked at Green Lantern like, ”… you wanna take this one?“

And just… I guess what I’m trying to say is that these are arguments that are continuous, and everyone has a valid point, but I’d rather focus on the progress, because there has been progress.  Years ago, for example, my black female was the legs of a woman in Tom and Jerry.  Now I know there still aren’t a lot, but at least they, you know, have names besides, "That lady who yells THOOOOOOMAS,” at the top of her lungs.