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What was it like being a female comic book fan back in the day when it was seen as a male geek hobby?

>>149459678 (OP)
I wonder where she is now.

>>149459678 (OP)
>can't see his face
>isn't even nude
Fucking hacks

>>149459678 (OP)
It was great! You saw untouched territory and said "I can totally leech attention for myself out of this!"

>>149459678 (OP)
Where do you think she was during 9/11?

>>149459678 (OP)
I dunno I think it depends on who you were. Comics might have been more popular with girls in the 90s than they are now honestly because they were more tied to counterculture. My sister would read vertigo comics like Sandman, and Strangers in Paradise, Witchblade, Lady Death, Johnny the Homicidal Maniac and other indie comics. This stuff was really popular. What is there today that is anywhere near as popular with women? Saga, I guess. Then she would go play Vampire the Masquerade with her friends. Alt life had a bigger presence in hobby shops then and there were a lot of things there that targeted alt chicks.

>>149459921
>>149459973
>>149460305
It got confirmed this was a guy pretending to be a girl, btw

>>149459678 (OP)
>back in the day
when? I collect golden age and a plurality of the names written on those books are female.

>>149459678 (OP)
Black Women WON!

>>149459678 (OP)
We have females now?

>>149460482
100% it was a white dude way older than "late 20s."

>>149462879
Proof?

>>149460947
Golden age reader letter and pen pal pages also had plenty of female names in pretty much all genres.

>>149459921
>>149460482
>>149462879
There is evidence that she was a real person and living in Illinois. Someone with that name, who PROBABLY fits the age as well, filed a lawsuit in the state of Illinois a few years back (against their employer over pension funds).

>>149459678 (OP)
>back in the day when it was seen as a male geek hobby

Delusional. Never happened.

>>149460947
>>149462943
Of course the editors are going to highlight the few women writing in. That is not a representative sample.
>>149464190
Largely depends on the title, but with regard to superheroes, the audience was overwhelmingly male and still is.

>>149464334
That was nice of Jim

>>149464334
The audience used to by like 2/3 to 3/4 male. Now it's 99% male. Stop believing memes, faggot.

>>149464709
With romance comics? Sure, that seems reasonable. Superheroes, war, westerns? No.

>>149465303
no that was overall

stop being a faggot retard

>>149465365
Girls/women are overwhelmingly not into those subjects, particularly the way men write them. You can see the differences between shonen and shojo to see how women like their stories.

>>149464334
more women writing on books isn't a representative sample?

>>149465303
Any product that involves attractive men having friendly relations with each other will attract faghags, especially if they're wearing form-fitting spandex.
Or at least that's what my mom admitted. After the original Star Trek ended, her main slashfic fuel was the original Teen Titans.

>>149465590
I'm counting 13 out of a list of 212. That's 6%.

>>149465683
Yeah, but these numbers are much smaller compared to the number of men.
If a book sells 100,000 copies and 1% are women, that's 1000 right there. That's a lot if they're all talking about it online or all gathered in a convention, but nothing compared to the 99,000 guys.

>>149465687
???

>>149465391
>believing memes

>>>/reddit/

>>149459678 (OP)
Must've been hell I'm sure

>>149462353
Anyone who uses 'female' as a noun is an embarrassment.

>>149461055
suckable nip

>>149464709
>>149464334
And modern comics are garbage. I am seeing a pattern.

>>149465745
Women can yell at men to keep supporting the product anyway or they are bigots who will never get laid, and men will bow their head and obey out of shame.

>>149464709
99% out of the few remaining capeshit fans left. Comics have moved on and the real big hitters now are manga and webtoons which have a large female reader base. Only a few remaining fanboys hold onto capeshit even though it hasn't been good in years.

>>149460465
Yeah, lots of chicks into alt and non-cape stuff during the 90s-00s.

>>149460465
>My sister would read vertigo comics like Sandman
Have you reminded her today that she has been supporting a rapist? I happily remind Gaiman-loving women every day that they have been supporting a rapist. My goal is to shame them into self-ostracization and hopefully suicide. I like making them suffer.

>>149470651
You have us confused with your blog.

>>149469194
Why do you care? We lived in a 4chan society.

>>149464190
but it was. Most female superheroines were highly sexualized for teenage boys to look at. Toxic masculinity, queerphobic tropes were very common

>>149459678 (OP)
Post old fan letters from the pre-internet era

>>149471057
>bitches about things being "queerphobic"
Ewwwwww. Please kys.

>>149470935
>fedoras
>not being the ones who say females
u wot m8

>>149459678 (OP)
like being a nortubel fan at the time

>>149464190
>Delusional. Never happened.
Lmao. Are you gonna say cars and computers were never male hobbies either?

>>149469194
>t. bot that only exists to drive up site traffic