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Pop culture’s got 99 problems but Kevin Wada’s X-Men cover ain’t one

Posted on June 6, 2013 by Alex V. Hernandez

Feminist Media Criticism Problems

While was perusing the web mindlessly due to the weird vampire hours my journalism job sometimes requires, I came across the art of Alyssa Korea. She’s an art student who does a comic strip for The Daily Texan in Austin, TX. As I was admiring the work on her blog work I came across a post that really captured my caffeine fueled interest:

Tumbling over the past year and a half has made me see the problems of gender roles that exist in media, but sometimes it gets to the point where I over analyze every single piece of television or film that I come across. (However this in no way means that I think feminist media criticism is wrong, or should be avoided!) Mostly I just over think everything.

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Posted in Media, Rant / Tagged A.V. Club, All Female X-Men, All Women, Amelia Cole, Brian Wood, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Daily Texan, DC Comics, Delilah Dirk, feminist media, gender inequality, Gender issues, Harry Potter, Hawkeye Initiative, Jean Grey, Kevin Wada, Kitty Pryde, Manners, Marvel Comics, Media Criticism, Monkey Brain comics, Olivar Sava, Psylocke, Sexism, standoffs, Storm, Women, X-Men / Leave a comment
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