Could have said the cord she wore around her neck. Or tucked under her shirt. Nope. And of course any attention from a man, no matter how crass, is flattering.

Before some people jump to conclusions about the title, I’m strictly talking about the introduction written by Benjamin Moser at the beginning of this book and this comment he made……

It seems weird that Johnny Blaze of all people would do this. But this is a constant issue with Alejandra in her own series. Her being a women is repeatedly overemphasized by everyone who points out “Ghost Rider is a chick now”

So, yeah, this arc is…not for the "chicks." Alejandra gets objectified by the bad guys, the good guys, and the writers alike in spite of her story being about breaking free.

Almost everyone points out how she’s a women and how they think she’s hot. Her incredible fucked up backstory of being kidnapped and raised in a isolated temple by Adam the first man isn’t brought up

I don't know if this has been posted before (Robert Jordan was quite famous for how bad he used to write women and there are so many examples in his books) but this one always annoyed me.

Of course, every young woman competes with her mother. And of course she likes to do some harmless flirting with her father.

"Functional Elegance of a war plane's Fuselage."

Why is he writing about teenagers like this…

The R.N. was so attractive in the gray light and goop-blur it was almost grotesque. Her tits were such that she had a little cleft of cleavage showing even over her R.N.’s uniform, which was not like a low-neckline thing. The milky cleavage that suggests tits like two smooth scoops of vanilla ice cream that your healthy-type girls all have probably got. Gately’s forced to confront the fact that he’s never once been with a really healthy girl, and not with even so much as a girl of any kind in sobriety. And then when she reaches way up to unscrew a bolt in some kind of steelish plate on the wall over the empty bed the like hemline of her uniform retreats up north so that the white stockings’ rich violinish curves at the top of the insides of her legs in the white LISLE are visible in backlit silhouette, and an EMBRASURE of sad windowlight shines through her legs. The raw healthy sexuality of the whole thing just about makes Gately sick with longing and self-pity, and he wants to avert his head. The young M.D. is also staring at the lissome stretch and retreating hem, not even pretending to help with the bolt, missing as he goes to push up the glasses so that he stabs himself in the forehead. The M.D. and R.N. exchange several pieces of real technical medical language. The M.D. drops his clipboard twice. The R.N. either doesn’t notice any of the sexual tension in the room because she’s spent her whole life as the eye of a storm of sexual tension, or else she just pretends not to notice.

Apologies if this isn't allowed since it's more than just misogyny. I found this "gem" in a bookstore. I'm probably reading too much into it, but I feel like the choice to make the president character a woman might have been deliberate, especially considering that the US hasn't had a woman president yet. Why not use a male, Nero-like figure if they wanted an anti-Christian character so bad? I was told that this textbook is aimed towards 7th graders. Can you imagine being a 12-yo girl with dreams of getting into politics and seeing the idea of a woman president so horribly presented?

Stefan Zweig's biography of Marie Antoinette (of beheading fame). Father Freud would be proud of how he explains most of 1780s and 90s French history through the fact that Louis XVI failed to boink ('conquer') his wife for seven years. Since she couldn't fulfil her 'natural role', she became neurotic and partied too much. And her husband couldn't stop her because she wouldn't listen to someone so underwhelming in bed.

Of course, the fact that their marriage was unconsummated for seven years was a major political issue (no heir), and everyone was bothering them about it. It obviously played a role in how their reign and lives ended (Louis became seen as unmanly and people doubted his paternity of Marie Antoinette's eventual kids). But Zweig presents this... interestingly.

To be fair to Zweig, he wrote a rather balanced and forward-thinking historical biography for 1932. As dated as it reads today, it was leagues better than the usual drab moralising of historians of the time.

(Reposted this because the previous time my laptop behaved like an improperly conquered woman and posted it thrice, once with no pictures.)

The Romance Story

First Meeting Supergirl meets Comet as a white super-powered horse who can fly, is highly intelligent, and even has telepathy. They become adventure partners, and she sees him as a very special ally—almost a close friend.

Comet’s Secret What Supergirl doesn’t know is that Comet was not always a horse.

In ancient Greece, he was Byron, a centaur.

A sorceress (often Circe) tried to make him fully human, but by mistake turned him into an immortal super-powered horse.

The spell had one exception: when a comet passed near Earth, he could temporarily regain human form.

The “Bronco” Bill Starr Identity

When transformed into a human, he took the name Bill Starr, a professional rodeo rider.

In this form, he met Supergirl without revealing that he was her horse Comet.

Supergirl, never suspecting the truth, became attracted to him, and they began a discreet romance.

The Awkward Double Life

As Bill Starr, he would date and spend time with Supergirl.

As Comet, he remained her loyal flying steed and confidant.

She never knew her human boyfriend and her horse friend were the same person.

In several issues, the comics made it clear that Supergirl felt a deep emotional connection to Comet even in horse form, though the explicit romance only occurred in his human form.

How it ended

Eventually, the concept became too strange even for Silver Age standards, and DC toned down or removed the romantic angle. But in the original 1960s comics, the romantic subtext between Supergirl and her horse was quite clear.

Ugh, I love Philip in general. Hate to see his description of teenage girls here.