Misogyny: What it means, how to spell it, and other comic wank.
Over at Scans Daily,
adora_spintriae posts scans from DC's "Brave New World" - a comic about the loss of magic from 99.9% of the DCU (Apparently, really powerful magic-powered characters like Captain Marvel and Black Adam are just fine).
The scans she posts depict Mary Marvel's powers going "poof" in mid air, and her subsequent plummet, which Adora takes offense to, as Captain Marvel only gets a bit of grey hair, and Captain Marvel Jr.'s powers get yoinked in the middle of a fight, which gets him tossed through a ground-level window.
kamino_neko points out that Judd Winnick states in an interview that both Mary and Junior will be a part of his upcoming "Trials of Shazam" mini-series, so Mary's probably not dead.
Adora states that this doesn't mean Mary doesn't go splat and get ressurected. She also sees this as evidence of DC's ongoing policiy of "Refrigeration", in that Mary's predicament is far more dire than her male counterparts.
Kamino thinks she's diluting the term "refrigeration" by using it for a character who is not currently being brutally killed.
And the green flag is waved on the wank!
Others chime in to wonder why Mary's predicament is so much worse than Junior's, seeing as his unpowered form is a cripple
And there's spelling wank
And a not-very funny, semi-facetious invocation of Godwin's Law.
And somewhere in the midst, a lone post by yours truly.
There's something for everybody, here. Jump in and bring Kleenex!
ETA: It's "M-I-S-O-G-Y-N-Y", dammit! (Thanks,
m_butterfly!)