"The women of Bikini Kill let guitarist Billy Karren be in their feminist punk band, but only if he's willing to just "do some shit." Being a feminist dude is like that. We may ask you to "do some shit" for the band, but you don't get to be Kathleen Hannah."--@heatherurehere


Tuesday, March 06, 2012

Men Doing Feminist Work: Si Spurrier and Paul Cornell

Seems there's a bit of a wave of allies in comics these days.  Recently, Paul Cornell, a celebrated comic (and television) writer, decided that he's not going to be on comic book panels that don't have some gender parity:

 If I'm on, at any convention this year, a panel that doesn't have a 50/50 gender split (I'll settle for two out of five), I'll hop off that panel, and find a woman to take my place.

Yay for Paul.

And now, Si Spurrier has followed Paul's example, and given up his seat on a panel to Tammy Taylor.  I hope this trend continues!


1 comment:

Beth Keenan said...

Isn't it supposed to be who does the best work? I don't know... it's hard when sometimes things HAVE to be 50/50 because that could be considered sexist in that women or men are given priority to cede to this ratio of 50/50. Wouldn't real equality mean that there is no choice for the job based on gender? It would be based on the idea that men and women are equal and therefore the job would be given to whoever can do the best job? This could mean that the entire panel is men or the entire panel is women or that it is a mix. Of course, it's hard to be completely gender-blind because of ingrained ideas about men and women, but I'm not sure... I don't know... tough one...