Geek Syndicate Issue 8 | Page 60

Geek Syndicate
Image © Marvel Studios, 2012

Like I said, this test isn’t perfect. Gender bias is just one issue on a long list of
complaints about Hollywood’s output.
But this is 2013. We’re way beyond suffrage and it’d be nice to come out of the
cinema with gripes about direction and
dialogue instead of bitching about the
blatant misrepresentation of my gender.
As Marvel heads into Phase 2, with four
films mostly directed and penned by
men, I’m hoping each of them has the
rules above written on a Post-It somewhere to serve as a reminder - little girls
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