Superhero whose superpower is her PERIOD?!
Lauren Chen
@thelaurenchen for RT
@rtintlEmilia Clarke, the Game of Thrones actress who played Daenerys Targaryen, has announced that she will be releasing a comic book titled MoM: Mother of Madness. Clarke says she was motivated to make Mother of Madness to increase the amount of female representation in comics. As such, it is also designed by an all-female creative team, and aspires to be one of the most progressive comics there is.
The story will center on Maya, a single mother with superpowers that revolve around her menstrual cycle. Really. Maya will apparently also have cliche superpowers like invisibility or super strength, depending on her mood, and she’ll strangely be able to use her armpit hair to traverse space - in a similar way that Spiderman uses his webs. Quite an image, isn’t it?
This new “creative” endeavor raises several questions, the first being why do feminists have such a fascination with periods and body hair? It’s one thing to normalize both of those attributes (menstruation and body hair are nothing to be ashamed of), but it’s another to celebrate them to the point of making them literal superpowers. And afterall, isn’t it now transphobic to associate womanhood with periods?
Secondly, why are progressives also so keen on glamorizing single motherhood? Statistically speaking, single motherhood is one of the largest contributing factors for poverty amongst women and children. Not very “empowering” if you ask me.
And finally, if Clarke herself isn’t a fan of the comic book industry (there’s been no previous indication that she’s even interested in the medium), why is she so concerned with what female representation looks like in a fandom she’s not a part of?