>>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 >>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).
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7/20/2025, 2:03:16 AM No.149464190
>>149459678 (OP) >back in the day when it was seen as a male geek hobby
>>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.
>>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.
>>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.
>>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.
>>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.
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7/20/2025, 10:38:38 AM No.149470416
>>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.
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7/20/2025, 11:44:52 AM No.149470640
>>149460465 Yeah, lots of chicks into alt and non-cape stuff during the 90s-00s.
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7/20/2025, 11:48:14 AM No.149470651
>>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.
>>149464190 but it was. Most female superheroines were highly sexualized for teenage boys to look at. Toxic masculinity, queerphobic tropes were very common