Thursday, October 12, 2017

Girl Fight

I've read "Girl Fight Comics"as my readings. I chose to read that title because it sounded like an exploitation film and it was exactly what I expected. The story that mostly stuck out was the first one starring "Fox" a woman with amnesia trying to come home to Africa.
It's interesting that there were themes of lesbianism, feminism, sexual abuse, and neo imperialism within the writings.  It's still framed in a hyper-sexual and very violent way, but it's there and prominent. It's also worth mentioning that there is racist stereotypes in the comics despite it having a black protagonist and the comic talking about the exploitation of Africans. There was even a part where Fox was running around in a leopard skin bikini and would later decide to abandon civilization and live in the jungle. Later in a different story the group of feminist ganged up on a abusive black man and shouted racial slurs at him. The africans the tribe was described as primitive by the americans.
A lot of it even comes across as misandric in a way. I think the only positive male character was Fox's father and the scientist in a later story. Most men are written as violent blow hards who abuse and rape women who get their come uppens, usually in the form of a knife in the back.
Reading this it was interesting seeing how the ideas are tackled. It's not tame and it's not apologetic about what it is. The comic knows what it wants to be and it has a specific audience.  The average person wouldn't be the type to pick this comic up. The comic was written by a woman named Trina Robbins and I do wonder as to what her intent and her thought process when writing Girl Fight Comics.



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