Well ladies, it's just us...

**I had no idea girls weren't so accepted in comic shops**

Hm, well, I use the "buddy system", so I wouldn't know much about this (as of yet). I find it a lot nicer and fun to make it a friend-group trip ... we get to share the moments!

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by lotusson:
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I used "in my book" as a figure of speech, but I would like to write a book of short stories some day...does that count?? http://www.hostboard.com/ubb/smile.gif

Anybody here tried Ben & Jerry's "Chubby Hubby"?

It's chocolate-covered, peanutbutter-filled pretzels in chocolate ice cream with fude swirls.

If God eats ice cream, this is what he eats...

I am so ANGRY that so many other women have to deal with that kind of nonsense when they want to go to a comic shop!!!!! I've been into comics on and off since J.R. High School, and I've dealt with it since then! I am really pissed that Marvel has written off one of my all-time favorite characters, Kitty Pryde! If ever there was ever a strong and intellectual (and sort of goofy, but that's why I love her!) role model for young women, it was Shadowcat, and now she's gone! It really sucks! I think that the only place that I get more attitude than the comic book shops is in Sam Ash (a musical instruments and equipment chain that is NOTOROIUSLY sexist). Just another place that stupid men do not want to see women going. I also get angry when the cashier gives me attitude about picking up Excalibur or X-Men comics! (Oooo! I saw something in the thread about Excalibur #16! That's a yummy one!) I cannot subsist on the gleeful mayhem of Slave Labor Graphics comics alone! In New York, people can be VERY snotty about your comic book selections. So much unwarranted attitude. Grrrrrrrr.

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*...In New York, people can be VERY snotty about your comic book selections. So much unwarranted attitude. Grrrrrrrr.*

And I ask myself, WHY am I not living in the east coast? oh yeah...

Well, to your advantage, spookyspice, there are a plethora of comic shops in the big city.. (I just happened not to mention they tend not to be very conveniently spaced. http://www.hostboard.com/ubb/redface.gif ) Perhaps you can find a day to go cruising to another shop... perhaps there ARE nice people in New York and you just haven't found them yet. (or perhaps, I've stayed up a little too late and have a picture of a perfect world. http://www.hostboard.com/ubb/wink.gif )

Oh, btw, I'm proud to be a guy and all, but I think the whole idea of engrossing one's self with his masculinity only leads to becoming a chauvanist, whom I greatly despise. Sexism falls into the realms of discrimination and shouldn't be a topic in today's world... (must sleep... perfect world encroaching WAYY too much of my brain. http://www.hostboard.com/ubb/wink.gif ) http://www.hostboard.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

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Always watching from the shadows...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by spookyspice:
I am really pissed that Marvel has written off one of my all-time favorite characters, Kitty Pryde! If ever there was ever a strong and intellectual (and sort of goofy, but that's why I love her!) role model for young women, it was Shadowcat, and now she's gone!
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I have a feeling...though I'm usually wrong about these things http://www.hostboard.com/ubb/wink.gif....that Kitty will be back. It made sense that she'd want to get the heck out of the XMen and that mansion after losing Piotr. But really, how long can she stay out of it? Besides, Uncanny is strangely female-less. Has anyone noticed that? One of the gals is bound to join up with the boys sooner or later. I hope it's Kitty!

Maybe the hostility toward women in comic shops is regional. I live in CA and have never had any problem. I've frequented 2 shops here in Fresno and the owners were always friendly and helpful. Up in N. Cal, too.....last time I was in a shop up there, the clerk was ready to talk about the books.

I dunno.....It does irk me that very few women work in comics. Hmmm.....

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Squee22:
I dunno.....It does irk me that very few women work in comics. Hmmm.....<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

It's just one of those things, though, that happen without intent or consequence. For example, more guys work in the video game industry than gals, and more gals work in the fashion industry than guys, (or so it seems... I've never seen any certified statistics.. http://www.hostboard.com/ubb/redface.gif) But the point is, there seem to be fields that are more certifiably made up of one sex than the other. It's not that anyone really intended for it to be that way, it just is. Thoughts?

I've been to five shops in New York, and only one place was not nasty to me. And in Brooklyn, I've been to three, and only two of those places were friendly and helpful. Maybe it's just me. Oh, yes I do hope Kitty comes back. Where have all the girls gone? Grrrrrrr! I'm actually working on a song about Kitty. Sort of. It's weird. It's mostly about her, but it's about myself, too, and how I can never find clothes that fit me, and all the bras in my size have been discontinued. I'm built similarly to Kitty, cira early Excalibur, so the song is called "Pryde Sized." It's still a work in progress, though.

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by spookyspice:
Grrrrrrr! I'm actually working on a song about Kitty. Sort of. It's weird. It's mostly about her, but it's about myself, too, and how I can never find clothes that fit me, and all the bras in my size have been discontinued. I'm built similarly to Kitty, cira early Excalibur, so the song is called "Pryde Sized." It's still a work in progress, though.
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Any song with comic book reference is good in my book.

I've heard there's a Weezer song out there with reference to Kitty and Nightcrawler. Has anybody heard it? It's from a few years back.

Ok, got the links:
http://www.marvel.com/comics/yourman...301_xmen.shtml

For more info, in the main marvel page (in the section for Buzz), there's a link to a Cinescape report on "new characters to join X-men." You can also go to X-Fan.

Enjoy the fishing trip! (and the tidbits!) http://www.hostboard.com/ubb/wink.gif