Wednesday, August 12, 2009

What's wrong with us women folk?

Brian and I have just recently become enchanted with "The Venture Brothers." It's nice to find new shows that you totally fall in love with. But... it can also be a punch in the face. For instance, here's a list of the last few things I've gone mad for.

Venture Brothers
Dollhouse
Pushing Daisies
Lost
Invader Zim

Now. Here's a list of the creaters of said shows.

Jackson Publick
Joss Whedon
Bryan Fuller
Jeffrey Lieber, J.J. Abrams, Damon Lindelof
Jhonen Vasquez

Hm... what do these names all have in common? And this isn't just specific to TV series. Video games, movies, books, and even webcomics are pretty much entirely dominated by men (with the one obvious exception [yes, it's Harry Potter]).

It's intimidating. To say the least. I wonder if part of my reservations toward writing have come from this. Women tend to be WAY more successful in art, and I've found myself attempting to pursue goals in art, even though my talents in it have always played second fiddle to my writing...

Ironically, this picture has nothing to do with my post, even though it looks like some man is grabbing some poor woman, going, "Arg! I'm a man! I own her!" and she's like, "Oh, teehee, don't worry, everything's fine, I just fell down the stairs."

1 comment:

  1. It is hard to believe that in this day and age, that is all so true. I think there are about 5 woman in the top 500 richest people in the USA and only Oprah is the only woman who is self made, the others inherited it! But on the other hand, when you do succeed in a man's world, you are all the more noticed for it!

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