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debutantes, nurses and librarians, part 2
So the Joker shoots Barbara Gordon, who ends up paralyzed in the Killing Joke. And it gets interesting right away because that’s not the end of Babs’ career as a crime-fighter. No, specifically because she is a librarian, specifically because she’s got the mad information skills she doesn’t lose the superhero mojo when [...]
debutantes, nurses and… librarians
So this post dovetails with a conversation Shaun and I have been having about gender and comic heroes and science geekery. Southern Fried Scientist is trying to answer this question here -
Why do heroes so rarely hold advanced degrees? And why are villains so often among the highly educated?
And there are bigger cultural questions, [...]
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