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[secondlina]

So, apparently the London Olympics opened with a meme-tastic show that included a crapload of Mary Poppins beating up a giantVoldemort, Peter Pans backflipping, some Doctors running around and other mixed pop-culture and literature goodies. I think Londonknows what we like about it.

I've been keeping up with the olympics a little, thanks to tumblr. The patriot in me is enjoying the sheer badass of our Canadian athletes. Aswell as the sheer badass of several of the ladies from various countries. 

I've been feeling minor outrage over the quality of comics for young girls. There's a couple of good ones, but there's also so many shittyones. Books with awful, awful lessons. At work, it's kinda my job to read the new stuff we get and kinda toss aside some of the awful stuff.The latest one to bug me was this book about this pre-teen (11 years old) that has a boyfriend, but then goes away on vacation and falls forthis douche. Most of the book is spent on freaking over said douche and his douchy ways. She learns the guy is a douche, and actually fallsfor this other guy, whom she kisses. Then she goes home and kisses her boyfriend, saying her vacation was awesome. 

This book got thrown into my wrong pile for several reasons - overly focused on the importance of boys, several lines implying a girl isnothing without a boy, infidelity, talks about the bigger the boobs, the better, etc. Basically, I found this book to be insulting to a girl'smorals, a girl's body image and just displaying a character with awful comment sense. 

I stepped into another book store and was kinda sorry to see the book in the best seller pile along with other awful "comics for girls" I hadrejected at my own job.

I'm wondering if my standards are too high? But at the same time... selling books like these make me feel dirty. I'd rather sell the ones likeAnya's Ghost who have good characters and are interesting and challenging. I know everyone likes a good soap-opera-guilty-pleasure flingonce in a while... but jeez. I really can't tolerate these stereotypes anymore...

I kinda want to do my own girly comic, a good one. Girls need good characters and fun plots. Why is it always love triangles with a douchyhypotenuses? 

- Isa