comickal: recently read, the naked, the dead and the nipply edition

Reviews bookended by stories about some interesting female superheroes, if that's entirely the right word.

( So let's get this party started... )

elsewhere: a rant about pants

grim amusements / October 26, 2007 / pants:

...Just remember, and never forget: saggy-ass pants = rape bait.

It is, I will admit, at least a novel twist on the "blame the victim for wearing revealing clothes" rape defense.

I really wish I understood quite why the entire country is suddenly getting so riled up about low-hanging pants. The style has, against all odds, persisted for about 20 years. It's nothing new. And yet suddenly, the entire country seems gripped with the need to make young Black men pull those Damn Pants UP! Passing anti-saggy pants laws is blatantly unconstitutional, so now we're resorting to using the spectre of rape to terrify guys into pulling up their pants. And, of course, that's going to work SO well. They're not going to see through that at all, of course. And none of them will get so peeved or amused at the way the Man is coming at them that they'll decide to wear their pants even lower, perhaps with extra small, extra dirty (ew, by the way) or entirely absent underwear, oh no no no! They would never do that!...