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August 17, 2007

Girls in Costumes

Filed under: Comics,Fandom,Gender,Women in comics — Tags: — Caribou23 @ 3:02 pm

CBR News writes an article trying to dispel the myths about women who show up to cons in costume: http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=11647
I like that the article focuses on the fact that these women are actually comic book fans, and that some of them have put a lot of work into making their costumes. As someone who has spent hours hunched over obnoxious fabric in order to hand sew a costume (sheer fabric deserves to die a slow painful death), I can definitely appreciate these women’s hard work getting acknowledged.
But…doesn’t the article seem to focus a bit on women who are conventionally attractive? I don’t know, what do you guys think?

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