Culture Making has been one of the best books I’ve read in the past year. It takes a look at cultural goods in society, theology in terms of culture and makes the assertion that the best way, and in some ways the only way, to change culture is to create more, better culture. In the video below, Andy Crouch, the author, responds to the question “How can we devote time/energy/resources to creating art and culture, when there are so many who, because of poverty, are stripped of the power to be culture makers?”
So while being distracted from writing my paper I go check out Newsarama. San Diego Comicon is happening right now and it’s honestly the biggest comic-related event of the year. So I’m dismayed (as is the Blog@Newsarama team) that EA has basically decided to run the contest above.
Yeah, basically they want you to sexually objectify women at the con so that you can win the opportunity to sexually objectify two more women.
Here I was ready to roll my eyes at the comic industry once again, when I go luck at the twitter search for #lust. The hashtag is almost completely taken over by comic book fans protesting/decrying this competition.
I know there’s a hard working feminist community in Comicdom, and I’m not sure I’d call this a victory yet, but it’s definitely a heck of a fight.
