http://blog.jim.com/culture/the-politics-of-hit-girl.html Liberty in an unfree world Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:41:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://blog.jim.com/culture/the-politics-of-hit-girl.html/comment-page-1#comment-17007 jim Thu, 15 Jul 2010 04:01:22 +0000 http://blog.jim.com/?p=1098#comment-17007 You cannot write a fun character who is politically correct. The restrictions are too severe and mutually inconsistent. Fun characters are always rebels, so when the left is regnant, what are you going to write? Even if you are left winger, you have to write Rorschach. Theoretically poor Rorschach is psychologically maimed by his sufferings, and the same is supposedly true of Hit-Girl and Big Daddy, but every guy wants to be Rorschach and marry Hit-Girl as soon as she reaches sixteen. You cannot write a fun character who is politically correct. The restrictions are too severe and mutually inconsistent. Fun characters are always rebels, so when the left is regnant, what are you going to write? Even if you are left winger, you have to write Rorschach. Theoretically poor Rorschach is psychologically maimed by his sufferings, and the same is supposedly true of Hit-Girl and Big Daddy, but every guy wants to be Rorschach and marry Hit-Girl as soon as she reaches sixteen.

]]> http://blog.jim.com/culture/the-politics-of-hit-girl.html/comment-page-1#comment-16943 Fanwank Wed, 14 Jul 2010 10:26:09 +0000 http://blog.jim.com/?p=1098#comment-16943 Alan Moore is a Man of the Left if he is anything, but in his magnum opus, The Watchman, the right-wing Rorschach is the character that people are most likely to identify with. In theory, The Watchman is a illustrated screed against Thatcherism. In practice, the opposite. Alan Moore is a Man of the Left if he is anything, but in his magnum opus, The Watchman, the right-wing Rorschach is the character that people are most likely to identify with. In theory, The Watchman is a illustrated screed against Thatcherism. In practice, the opposite.

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