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Just Past the Horizon: Neutrality

This month I saw a few links and conversations that seem to miss a basic fact of human society when the subjects of gender, race and sexual orientation are brought up, so I'm going to state this sentance in all caps on the front page just to make sure everyone has it perfectly clear:

THERE IS NO NEUTRAL ZONE WHEN IT COMES TO IDENTITY.
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Just Past the Horizon: Mary Who?

Today I address the subject of "Mary Sues." I promise profanity beneath the cut.
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Just Past the Horizon: Heroic appeal

In the last couple of days there's been a few minor blowups in the superhero fan community that caught my attention. One is centered around a movie reviewer who claimed that women were by nature more interested in romance than heroics, so there wasn't a need for a female superhero movie.

Our movie reviewer picked up that startlingly unoriginal insight like a chunk of fecal matter hardened by an early January frost (which to say a number of us are wondered just how he brought himself to actually write and post that thought on the internet) and chucked it into the deceptively still waters of female fandom. The result was a beautiful rippling mess of nearly unanimous disapproval, from readers of superhero comics and superhero fans who prefer other media. The young man is still buried under a wave of comments trying to explain that he was just using generalizations. (Please note that a generalization is a logical fallacy, so that's not a good defense.)

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