Blog Post #10

Inness’s assessment of Elektra is not fair at all. In a quick summation of how “tough” this comic portrays them, it took an explosion in conjunction with a surprise beating by Elektra to knock out the Daredevil, but it only took one shot of a dart to knock her out. This is an unfair comparison that the writers created just because she is a woman, and the man always has to be tougher. Skill wise and logistically she should be the tougher of the two, but she still gets the short end of the stick- along with the skimpy outfit.

The media definitely perpetuates that women need male protection because in world affairs it is always men who are discussing and making big decisions, as well as tough/burly men who are shown in the military branches as defending here in the United States. The only exceptions I can think of are the few media outlets who only show women as being superior to men, and the few times when the media has some type of women’s appreciation in a commercial or a news story to try to even out the cause. I believe that these few examples do show how things are changing, and I believe that it will simply take more time for more change to occur. Women barely got their suffrage and their rights as a human in essence less than 100 years ago, so how can we expect the “mans” world to change in such a short time? There have been more and more developments since then, and these will catch up in the comic world as well. The consistent effort to make the world truly equal is what will drive the ever-present progress in all social/political affairs.