Comments on The New F-Word: Feminist critique of TV show "Heroes"

Susie, I found your blog so very interesting. I am...

2009-10-02T15:46:26.178-04:00

Susie, I found your blog so very interesting. I am a senior in high school and I am doing a research paper on the role of women in heroes through a feminist lens, and your essay would be a great tool for me to quote and use as a source. Is there anyway that you would be able to send me the entire essay?

Susie, that's a wonderful analysis. I'm pretty awa...

2009-08-15T18:38:38.218-04:00

Susie, that's a wonderful analysis. I'm pretty aware of gender stereotypes (and already knew a couple of your points), but I learned a lot from your article. I'll be reading your blog from now on.

Hi, firth of all i have to say that i'm not Englis...

2009-06-09T22:40:56.896-04:00

Hi, firth of all i have to say that i'm not English speaker, but i try to make my best effort.
You see the show with a very critic eye, because, the protagonist a male Peter Petrelli, and everybody else is just to sustain the character and of course the history.
I have seen only the 2 firth season and the most impressive power was assigned to this man that have the quality of get the power just being near of a person with a power.
For other hand the bad is a man to.
the cheerleader is not indestructible, she have the capacity of regeneration.

You see eroticism every ware, is sufficient that is present a female.
Really i don't remember her even with underclothes and you mentioned her "naked" under a sheet.
You assume that because she was "dead" she was NAKED (not nude).

Feminism a a very great thing, but doesn't mean be extremist.
Exist women really, really intelligent, and men with same quality, exit good girls, and bad girls, good boys and bad boys, men who only think in sex and evident :-D women who see sex everywhere.

Every day is more difficult make a show, reportage, or a movie without offend a woman, but what mean equality.
doesn't means fight to get a change of roles, because if women and men are equals means that a female doesn't have right to get in boys clothes room that is a tendency in shows and films, but seems to be ok (example the superman series) another tendency women to beat men or female touching or caressing male ass is "funny" or put male
constantly in embarrassing situations he is masturbating, is masturbating and is viewed but a lot of female, GET NAKED WITHOUT REASON and a lot of time in front a lot of people or in public place. In love movies. How many films you saw where the woman apologizes with a man or do a lot of morons action for get the forgiveness of the man she love (I'm toking about proportions)

the most of the time the feminist solutions is invert roles but, that is not just, because is as unjust to humiliate a female as humiliate a male.

have you ever see or heard about a documentary of South American Indians who male are clothes but female aren't (not me) but this isn't an invent is real, and probably this culture disappear and have been just documented in books, because if someone make a reportage about them get without job, because insane feminisms.
But haw many documentary are you sow or heard about where Indians or Africans men are NAKED, documentary only show men not women and event show the men penis without censure.
To show a nude female she most are 18 year or older but not for male nudity, and this is evident in modern U.S school films.

Feminisms wouldn't be and obsession, and to be just for me exist 2 way

1 censored every thing, female and male nudity, embarrassing situations, humiliations, objectification, male and female stereotypes...

2 Be tolerant and accept that a half of the time in a movie or show the nudity, embarrassing situations, humiliations, objectification ... will be female character and the another half will be male character
Or a half of the time for male and another for female.

If don't like "Heroes" you can see NIP/TUCK where male almost the time are naked or search for forging series live "Aquí no hay quien viva" from Spain were male are gay, fools and every thing is a goog reason for men get NAKED

I think that exist more important and worst things for objective feminist female then Heroes sexuality and stereotypes.

when we make an analysis we most to get documented firth and try to be just.

...because even men have their right...

I'm really sorry and give you my apologizes for my English

I think you read to deeply into the color scheme o...

2008-03-21T12:10:00.000-04:00

I think you read to deeply into the color scheme of things. Also, if you had watch the series further you would find that:
There is a very strong female character (Hanna Gittleman) who single handedly destroys the company's tracking satellite. Also Claire manages to save a large proportion of Texas from disaster while wearing red. Niki also confronts her alter-ego and beats up Sylar (the villain) while wearing red.

No offence but the majority of your arguement is e...

2007-11-14T13:55:00.000-05:00

No offence but the majority of your arguement is extremly flawed now stop writing essays and get back in the kitchen lol oj

Very well put and intelligently written. I just st...

2007-03-24T20:52:00.000-04:00

Very well put and intelligently written. I just stumbled on this entry after watching my first episode of heroes. I felt that I should have enjoyed it a bit more than I did, but could not quite put my finger on what was wrong.

Two things I especially liked about your entry was firstly that you watched the series with a critical eye, which everybody should be doing in this entertainment age where everybody is either keen to further his or her agenda through the media, or subconsciously allows their stereotypical views to permeate through their work. Secondly you did it without being emotional or being nasty just for the sake of it, which is the mistake most internet posters make.

Being a male I'm guilty of my own stereotypical idea of feminists and especially feminist bloggers! Thanks for correcting my misconception!

I had recently been complaining about Claire as be...

2007-03-06T21:27:00.000-05:00

I had recently been complaining about Claire as being merely a sex object in my own LJ, but your argument is definitely a lot more thought out and better constructed than my own. I noticed that the female characters had been marginalized but I hadn't noticed most of the details that you've pointed out with Nikki/Jessica and Eden. Thanks for posting this.
-patrick
http://tacohunter.livejournal.com

Hi, I found an interesting site to download Heroes...

2006-12-29T04:50:00.000-05:00

Hi, I found an interesting site to download Heroes and watch it for free. You can watch it on a small screen like you would do it on a normal TV but via some of weird Chinese TV. Some episodes are free to download the are MPEG4 and AVI format with some TV4 logo. All for free.
They have got the first 10 episodes and apparently more to come, just something to watch out !

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Thought you might be interested in some of the dis...

2006-12-15T17:38:00.000-05:00

Thought you might be interested in some of the discussion of your blog.

I don't have much to contribute, since I've never ...

2006-12-10T11:51:00.000-05:00

I don't have much to contribute, since I've never seen "Heroes," but I just wanted to say I found your feminist reading of the show extremely interesting! It's strange, yet simultaneously not surprising at all, that shows aiming to create strong female characters and aiming to create female "superheroes" find themselves falling into the same old female stereotypes and constructs. I haven't heard this discussion in regards to female characters all that recently, but there's been a lot written lately about how this happens with black characters too. How films like "Half Nelson" and "Blood Diamond" and "The Constant Gardener" aim to create black-positive characters but only reinforce certain black stock stereotypes. Manohla Dargis talks about this in her excellent review of "Blood Diamond" this week in the NYT, here's the link