100-foot-tall humanoid creature made of stone that became animated through the mind transferral of an alien. Same. +5
Used to attack the Soviet government and the US Army, neither of which have been all that friendly to women, historically. +4
It! The Living Colossus debuted in Tales of Suspense #14 in 1961, the same year JFK established the President’s Commission on the Status of Women. +5
But other than that, things didn’t seem great for women at the time. -6
Was created by men. -5
One of those men was Jack Kirby, whose wife Roz inked comics and collaborated with him occasionally, which is pretty neat! +3
“Identity: Variable” +7
But seems to veer toward the hypermasculine. Like, chill dude. -5
*Vaguely considers It!’s giant, stone dick* +2
I am unfortunately anticipating a lot of male pedants in the comments arguing about the particulars of It! -10
RESULTS: 0, I REPORT YOU DECIDE
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If we have to consider the arguments of male pedants, then every bit and bobble in the world, -10 each.
I don’t think we *do* need to consider their arguments — let their nonsense-rambles fall as smooth gray stones into the thousand-foot-deep well of dark, indifferent silence that represents how few fucks I give.
However, I hypothesize that the very presence of male pedants weighs in favour of ‘It! (The Living Colossus)’ indeed being feminist, because opinionated male pedants are drawn to criticize feminist things as if compelled to by their very nature. It’s one of the great mysteries of our times, e.g. how the Egyptian Pyramids were built, where does water go when the tide goes out, how do bees achieve flight, and so on.
I’m for It! in most things, this included.
Wearing that particular shade of purple even tho #masculinitysofragile. +1?
I’m not sure he can help it. +0.
*Vaguely considers It!’s giant, stone dick* +2
Gets into a dick-measuring contest with the Living Monolith, isn’t upset so much about the results (they’re within a foot of each other) as that it was that close, begins to question the whole animated-statue-phallocracy paradigm: +10
Your humble correspondent resembles the remark about “male pedants”, decides to leave it there: even-steven.
Heheh. I wonder how Galactus feels about this measuring contest – does he want in (and feel sad that he wasn,t invited?) or just laugh at the puny not-galaxy-sized creatures?
At least one early version of Galactus went bare-legged, which to me implied that he may have gone commando under his Kirbyesque skirt, so I think that he has none of the insecurities of lesser beings.
The devourer of worlds is a white dude. Fitting.
looks like It! is holding a lady against her will in It!’s giant stone fist, so…-100?
+A LOT for this series though. it’s a joy and a treausre.
She looks super relaxed about it in this image though. Like just kinda leaning on her arm.
i can’t tell if it’s because It! is crushing her spleen or because she’s just having a chill day, but i’m gonna guess it might be the former.
Very reasonable but I am choosing to believe she is just having a great time and hanging out and watching while It! crushes shit because my feminism definitely includes occasionally just watching while men break stuff.
i’m with you – I even zoomed in to check. She looks remarkably chill and un-crushed, all things considered. Knowing nothing else at all about the comic, i choose to assume that she is gleefully enjoying the crushing, rather than trying to flee it.
-1000000000 for Marvel, tho, the only women being portrayed are clearly meant to require “rescuing”, whether they want it or not.
My headcanon is now It is a non-binary stone butch, and that is their girlfriend, and they go out crushing men on their dates.
+10 points for that pun!
I look forward to this series with so much glee, mostly because I want to know which IT will be evaluated next. ♥
What other ITs do you think we can expect in the future? IT Came from Outer Space? IT Follows?
There is speculation every time, but since i suspect that Jaya will never write about the ITs that we speculate about, i like to try to keep my speculation to a minimum in order to keep the series going for as long as possible 😉
IT Crowd?
Please please please pursue the question of “Is ITT Feminist?”
http://www.itt-tech.edu
Am choosing to believe It (The Living Colossus) is a nonbinary stone butch, which, +1000. I mean, It (tLC) is LITERALLY stone and is shown almost exclusively in purple, white and black NOT UNLIKE THE LABRYS PRIDE FLAG. I mean, really.
I wholeheartedly subscribe to this reasoning.
This is a really strong argument.
Good lord, this is perfection.
My headcanon is now It is a non-binary stone butch, and that is their girlfriend, and they go out crushing men on their dates.
I am here for this series and for giant non-binary beings.
Im almost 6 feet tall, that counts right?
I’m 6 ft 2, can we both be giant gender queer beings?
I bought a handful of old “IT!” comic books at a library book sale a while ago, because, ehh, I’d been meaning to read more comics, and I didn’t know much about this series, and the covers looked ok, and they were sold for ten cents apiece. Then I put them in a drawer and forgot about them.
This piece has made me excited to read them tonight
I think I should point out that It! is at what seems to be some kind of LGBT bus stop — note inverted pinky purple triangle. I think It! was just minding It!s business waiting for some kinda Pride Bus when It! had to start crushing people. +10 for the queer bus stop