Blog #2

September 3, 2009 maxwae01

I began this semester with my eyes and ears open for something that I could write my first blog about. Ironically my blog is going to be a comic book that my boyfriend has been trying to get me to read for months. I ran out of books to read this last week, so my boyfriend placed the comic in my hands. I began the first book two days ago and finished it wanting to read the next ten as soon as possible. I am going to give a brief summary about the book and explain how ironic it was to start reading this comic book after beginning this class. “Y: the Last Man,” by Brian K. Vaughan is about a story in which any mammal that contained a Y chromosome dies from some kind of plague. There are two males that survive, a young male (Yorick) and his pet monkey. After the death of all males the world begins to become chaotic, with the understanding that the world could become extinct. There are women in grievance and women that are thrilled and ready to move on without the men. The women in which are ready to move on are the feminist. They describe themselves as the “Daughters of the Amazon,” and believe that Mother Earth has demolished the men for a reason. These feminist are described as zealous women, that cut off one breast in order to show their commitment, that annihilate sperm banks to guarantee the genercide (made up term), is total, and that will do anything (kill) in order to keep men from returning. If I would have started this book a month earlier I would have believed that all feminist would react this way if the comic was true. Now that I have begun this class, I now understand that not all feminist are extremely radical. The feminist in this book are portrayed as anti-male, sometimes Lesbian, and fairly wild. I recommend reading this comic, at least the first volume, for a good laugh at how they depict a feminist. I will keep you updated on the rest of the volumes. If this how the first volume started out, I can only imagine how the next few will be.

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• 1. maxwae01  |  September 13, 2009 at 1:31 am

  It is a male that creates these comic books, he actually is famous in the “comic book world” LOL! *That is sad that I know this!! I honestly do not believe he was creating these feminist in a way to get a negative response. I just think he is unclear what a feminist is, just like many other people. He illustrated them they way he thought feminist would truly react if this took place. Which after beginning this class and understanding the true definition of feminism, it it something that we can laugh about, but know we need to correct.

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