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Published: 2020-01-30 11:46:00 +0000 UTC; Views: 908; Favourites: 16; Downloads: 0
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I could probably write a whole essay on the views on women in WW2 in popular media, but it all boils down to how frustrating it is to see so many people utterly unable to comprehend that some women just want to be able to see fellow women kick ass the same way dudes want to see guys like Indiana Jones, or Kelly's heroes or the Call of Duty soldiers, without relying on seduction and sex appeal or needing a traumatic backstory to "justify" them wanting to fight instead of being happy homemakers. It's especially disappointing considering that during the actual war, the SOE, the WAC, the Red Army and a ton of different resistance groups found no shortage of young women volunteering to learn to handle firearms and piloting war vehicles and wanting to fight just as much as the men.Anyway, this picture was how I dealt with those feelings and the colors of this image was me playing around with taking something typically considered manly and just picking the girliest color scheme I could think of, plus I got this song stuck in my head for the entire time I was drawing them!
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Oh!! This reminds me of the conversation we had about Inglourious Basterds. X'D You're honestly right!! We need more WWII stories about tough, influential women. This is something I'd have to do research on though.
I absolutely love the designs here- your lineart was always pretty good, and the colors are appealing to look at. Nice work!!
Also this is sad but the first time I've heard Wannabe was from the Chicken Little movie. XD
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I'm so glad you remember that!
Seriously though, if you want to read up more on the topic I recently found this article where a female resistance veteran
chews out a movie rife with all the stuff I've already complained about in our previous discussion, and she literally says
it had been better if that movie hadn't been made rather than people getting tricked into seeing a false and misogynist
version of history thinking that's how it was for women back then. As for why that sort of stuff gets put into movies
in the first place, another article that was a huge eye-opener for me and shaped a lot of my thoughts on female-led films
was this article where Salma Hayek explains why she was forced to add gratuitous sex scenes to her film about Frida Kahlo.
I can't recommend reading her story enough.
But for comparison, if you'd want to learn about great women fighting in WW2, and what sort of stories we're missing out on,
I want to share this link to Rejected princesses , which is a great site for anyone interested in feminist history writing,
and they have some great comics about Nancy Wake , Vitka Kempner , Virginia Hall and many others.
The comics are about a 5 min read, and I recommend them not just because they're awesome stories about awesome women,
but also because I found the artwork beautiful and inspiring and I think it reminds me a bit about your style, what do you think?
Anyways, I'm so happy that you like my artwork, the colors are way, way more saturated than what I usually do,
and don't feel bad about learning about Wannabe from the Cicken Little movie, I only learned about
Bohemian Rhapsody and Leslie Gore from the Suicide Squad movie!
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