{"id":203341,"date":"2014-07-02T21:52:42","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T21:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/07\/02\/we-fraction-and-his-wife-kelly-sue-deconnick\/"},"modified":"2014-07-02T21:52:42","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T21:52:42","slug":"we-fraction-and-his-wife-kelly-sue-deconnick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/07\/02\/we-fraction-and-his-wife-kelly-sue-deconnick\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>We [Fraction and his wife, Kelly Sue DeConnick] were pregnant at the time, and while I was out there I started to realize that if I had a daughter, there would come a day when I would have to apologize to her for my profession. I would have to apologize for the way it treats and speaks to women readers, and the way it treats its female characters.<\/p>\n<p>I knew that if we had a daughter, because I know my wife and I know the kind of girl she wants to raise and I know the kind of girl I want to raise, she was going to look at what I did for a living and want to know how the fuck I could stomach it. How could I sell her out like that?\u201d Fraction continued. \u201cThat conversation is still coming, and I\u2019m bracing for it in the way that some dads brace for their daughter\u2019s first date or boyfriend. I became acutely aware that I had sort of done that thing that lots of privileged hetero cisgendered white dudes do. \u2018I\u2019m cool with women, and that\u2019s enough.\u2019 It\u2019s not enough. It\u2019s embarrassing to say, because we somehow have attached shame to learning and evolving our opinions, culturally, but I became aware that there was a deficiency of and to women in my work, and all I could do at that moment was take care of my side of the street.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><em><strong>Writer Matt Fraction on his role on expanding the profile of female characters in the Marvel Universe.<\/strong><\/em> (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/goodmanw.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">goodmanw<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We [Fraction and his wife, Kelly Sue DeConnick] were pregnant at the time, and while I was out there I started to realize that if I had a daughter, there would come a day when I would have to apologize to her for my profession. I would have to apologize for the way it treats &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/07\/02\/we-fraction-and-his-wife-kelly-sue-deconnick\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[21635,3525,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203341"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}