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Things We Saw Today

Things We Saw Today: Young Batgirl And Her Wheels

by Kellie Foxx-Gonzalez | 5:02 pm, July 12th, 2012


This adorable Batgirl looks ready to kick some ass and take some names. She may be a wee bit young to drive those that car, though. (via Fashionably Geek.)

  • Women make up 40% of Comic-Con attendees this year! Now if only I were one of them…(via Comics Beat.)
  • NYC plans to convert old, out-of-use payphones into Wifi hotspots. Certainly they are more useful this way and the Wifi it’s free for now. Sweet! (via Geekosystem.)

Gear up for Geek Girl Con with this adorable Star Wars dress! (via Etsy.)

  • Legendary Entertainment has acquired Nerdist Industries, so expect well-informed, yet still impartial, scoops on the latest nerd entertainment. Congrats! (via Nerdist.)
  • Here’s a guide to feminist Disney princesses — though I have to disagree about Ariel’s outfit partially damning her to the patriarchy — women can be liberated in clamshell bikinis, thank you very much! (via Nerve.)

Here’s a map of Game of Thrones’ Westeros imagined as a Super Mario World map. Sorry, Mario, the Khaleesi is in another castle. (via I09.)

  • Fox’s The Wolverine has announced that Yun Lee will play Kenuichio Harada, the mutant half-brother of Wolverine’s ex-lover Mariko Yashida. Is it sad that I’m just breathing a sigh of relief that this movie isn’t casting White people to play Asian roles? (via Comic Book Resources.)
  • According to South Carolina’s Republican Governor Nikki Haley, sexual assault and domestic violence prevention funding is a “distraction” from a “broader mission of protecting South Carolina’s public health.” Yikes! (via The Frisky.)

SyntheticPH presents a love story for our times: “Say Anything, Say Apple.” (via Mecha Melissa.)

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  • Anonymous

    Alright, while Mulan is hands-down the most obvious feminist in the group, I notice the writer completely fails to mention that the movie is STILL not complete until she gets the guy–because apparently saving all of China is not really enough to make her a good hero if she doesn’t end the movie with a boyfriend.

    And her bashing of Ariel is completely unfair. Putting these movies in historical perspective, Ariel having any backbone at all was kinda a big deal–she certainly doesn’t get it from the original text (“gee, I can’t be with him, so I’ll just kill myself”). It’s true that she’s still saved by a man, but that has something to do with the history and blending the original with the Disney version. But Ariel certainly *shouldn’t* “lose credit” for being in a clamshell bra–that’s not patriarchal, that’s the cultural norm for her people. It’s not like she’s a sex object because of it; that’s just what mer-people wear–all of the ladyfolk do. In fact, if you’ve ever seen the dolls that mimic the movies, Ariel is perhaps the least sexualized; her body is a lot like “Kelly” from the Barbie line, and she’s short.

    But Aurora totally sucks, despite her magic bird-powers.

  • http://www.facebook.com/1shewolf JoAnna Luffman

    You’re missing something important, though in your critique – a woman can be a feminist, and still find a guy she loves. Mulan ends up with everything – she’s a heroine, and she even gets a guy that SHE wants, not who is an advantageous match. 

  • http://twitter.com/elwang Pete Pfau

    Star Wars dress is awesome.

  • John Wao

    If that Batgirl costume is homemade they did an incredible job on it.

  • Anonymous

     Every princess could be argued to have gotten a guy SHE wants. I’m not saying that having a fella makes Mulan less of a feminist, just that the author pointedly didn’t mention it, even though she went out of her way to talk about it with the other characters.

  • funkygourmet

    Exactly. Also, they developed a relationship based on respect, understanding, and mutual interest, not on, “heeeeeeeeeeeey…. you’re pretty!” 

  • funkygourmet

    This was supposed to be a reply to MisterEHolmes, not Ms. Luffman. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003037095323 Jerilyn Nighy

    I know the topic is discussing the princesses, but I always considered the protagonist(s) of Sleeping Beauty to be 
    Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather, since they are the most interesting characters in the movie.

  • Anonymous

     Really interesting take. I’d see a movie that intentionally put them front-and-center.

  • http://melancholywise.tumblr.com/ Sophie

    It’s also worth remembering that maleficent is one of the most iconic Disney villains. The main couple may be a little bland, but the female cast as a whole has some excellent characters.

  • Anonymous

     It is a pity that so many of the interesting female characters (in particular with the pre-90s movies) are villainesses. I’m looking forward to Jolie’s take on Maleficent, however!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_R7GVNIKWG3S2UTHEQOMSZXT4M4 Anna B

    To be completely fair to Aurora, Prince Phillip wasn’t much, either. And whatever blandness Aurora had was made up for by the fairies, good and bad.

    One couldn’t completely blame Mulan ending up with the General as a flaw in particular. So she ended up with a boyfriend. Big deal. She’s a heterosexual woman who kicked ass, saved China, and save everyone’s ass, including her boyfriend’s.  That she ended up with the guy was a bonus, I suppose. For me, it never took away from the fact that she was a hero. It was entirely unimportant to me whether or not she ended up with the guy.  I suppose it’s a matter of perspective. When I watched that movie, I saw Mulan’s primary goal as saving her father and maintaining her family’s honor. I never saw her goal to be “Win the Guy’s Heart” so that’s really beside the point.

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