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It’s really easy to find sexism in comic books. For Frank Miller, women must either be unrecognizably masculine or unfaithful nymphomaniacs. For Joe Kelly, the females must be eroticized and mercilessly beaten. For Joss Whedon, a low-cut leather jumpsuit is more protective than proper armor. Again, it’s really easy.

So if you’re a fan of comics and women, what do you do? Luckily, amidst all this testosterone fantasizing, writers like Kathryn Immonen and Gail Simone are a breath of fresh air; a liberating, humanizing breath of fresh air for many female characters in comics. Compared to them, guys like Miller are clubbing women and dragging them back to their caves. And because of their mature approach, writers like Simone are being rewarded with critical and commercial success.

And that’s why DC Comics fired her.

My heart goes out to all the victims and fans of the Aurora DKR premier shooting.  I Hope no lives are lost during the search of his boobie trapped apartment...... All they wanted to do was watch a great movie.....

"AURORA, Colo. (AP) -- Police say 71 people were shot in a suburban Denver movie theater early Friday during midnight shows of the new Batman movie. Twelve people were killed, ten of them at the theater.

Another 59 adults and children were wounded.

Aurora Police Chief Dan Oates says there were four showings of the movie at the time and all were sold out. He did not know how many people that amounts to.

Oates says investigators are confident the gunman acted alone.

Police arrested 24-year-old James Holmes, whose apartment four miles away was booby trapped.

Oates says Holmes wore body armor, used an assault rifle, a shotgun and a Glock handgun.

He says Holmes' car was parked in back of the theater.-" - Huffington Post, Denver, Colorado

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