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Mike Gold

ComicMix's award-winning and spectacularly shy editor-in-chief Mike Gold also performs the weekly two-hour Weird Sounds Inside The Gold Mind ass-kicking rock, blues and blather radio show on The Point, www.getthepointradio.com and on iNetRadio, www.iNetRadio.com (search: Hit Oldies) every Sunday at 7:00 PM Eastern, rebroadcast three times during the week – check www.getthepointradio.com above for times and on-demand streaming information.

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  1. George Haberberger says:

    From CNN: “On their petition website, they wrote: ‘Although the original creators may have intended Wonder Woman to represent a strong and independent warrior woman with a feminist message, the reality is that the character’s current iteration is that of a large breasted, white woman of impossible proportions, scantily clad in a shimmery, thigh-baring body suit with an American flag motif and knee high boots –the epitome of a pin-up girl.’ ”

    That is the kind of politically-correct language that social justice warriors revel in. It’s like they tried to make “large-breasted white women” a bad thing.

    You know Mike, I’d be willing to bet the none of the 44,000 people who signed that petition were Trump supporters.

    • Mindy Newell says:

      “the character’s current iteration is that of a large breasted, white woman of impossible proportions,”

      And yet there is Gal Gadot.

    • Mike Gold says:

      Actually, from her third appearance — written and drawn prior to the Pearl Harbor bombing, to put it in a timeline context — Wonder Woman was “a large breasted, white woman of impossible proportions, scantily clad in a shimmery, thigh-baring body suit with an American flag motif and knee high boots.” So, once again, CNN is full of shit.

      As for your comment about Trump voters, George, yes, I agree with you completely. I never, ever assume Trump voters read, or even necessarily know how to read.

      • George Haberberger says:

        “I never, ever assume Trump voters read, or even necessarily know how to read.”

        Aaaaand… that attitude is why Trump won.

        • Mike Gold says:

          George, in order to dish it out you gotta be able to take it.

          And Trump won because he lied his ass off to a lot of desperate people. Aaaaand… that’s why my tendency is towards anarchism.

          • George Haberberger says:

            Ever wonder why some people are desperate?

            My point is that Trump was underestimated by everyone and treated as a joke. But he touched something in the electorate that was completely overlooked by either party and the press. When Hillary said half of his supporters were deplorable, that became a rallying cry. She didn’t say they couldn’t read but it is the same attitude.

            By the way, he wasn’t my guy. I wanted Cruz/Fiorina or Rubio/Fiorina. I even contributed money to Carly Fiorina’s campaign, something I had never done before. Apparently that puts you on a lot of mailing lists.

    • Mindy Newell says:

      “You know Mike, I’d be willing to bet the none of the 44,000 people who signed that petition were Trump supporters.”

      George, I don’t get your meaning. Seriously.

      Can you explain it to me?

      • George Haberberger says:

        Mindy, the petition to remove Wonder Woman as an honorary ambassador because she is a large-breasted white woman and he appointment did not advance diversity is an attitude that is prevalent on the left. People who supported Trump do not consider social engineering or mandated diversity as something worth bothering with.

        Whether those thing are important is a matter of opinion but Trump’s supporters have other priorities and were fine with Wonder Woman’s appointment. This is all conjecture on my part of course.

        Hope that helps.

        • Mindy Newell says:

          Yes, it does, George.

          But I thought the problem, at least as I read the WHOLE petition, and in the numerous articles on the net, newspapers, and radio (I didn’t hear anything on television), about it, was that many people objected to having a fictional character representing women and women’s rights and women’s equality and all that good stuff when–well, at least the originators of the petition– felt that there were “real life” women who deserved the actual title of “real life” Ambassador for the Empowerment of Girls and Women.

          I just don’t understand why there couldn’t be a “real life” Ambassador and then Wondy could have been the “honorary,” uh, “mascot” or symbol for women.

          The fact that the media picked up on the “large breasted blah blah blah blah” part of the petition is because…well…

          It was “Sensaational” (as in Sensation Comics, where Diana first appeared.) Okay, lousy pun.

          And because of that old trope: “Sex Sells”

          *Sigh*

  2. Mindy Newell says:

    “De-ambassadoring” Wonder Woman: A stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid decision.

    Did I mention that this is a stupid decison?