Why comics? There are plenty of good books (even with pictures) for the girls of that age. Comics were never supposed to be educational or have any non-entertainment value and primary tarted at hormones soaked male teens. Take her to the books store instead. You don't complain that nobody does piano recital during pop concerts -- either go there or not. Actually, I find annoying the trend of complaining about anything that does not suite somebody's needs or attitudes.
Because his kids were enthused about going to a comic book store. Notice that his little boy found plenty of material for him. The point is, his daughter clearly got it: that stuff is not for her. An entire comic book store, and none of it for her. That doesn't feel good.
You're seriously telling his kids what to do? Get real. Kids love to read comics: comics have great value for kids. Colours, heroes, secret hideouts and cool punchlines. Why wouldn't kids (male & female) want that? Why shouldn't they?
The next time you're about to tell someone('s kids) what to enjoy, remember that what you like is not necessarily what others like.
The writer of the article didn't 'complain about anything'. The complaint is very specific: lots of comics in the comic book store he visited featured more adult illustrations that he and his kid would've liked to see. Valid complaint that doesn't have anything to do with 'attitudes'.
> Comics were never supposed to be educational or have any non-entertainment value and primary tarted at hormones soaked male teens.
In the USA, perhaps. There is literally nothing about the medium - panes of images, some with dialogue or narrative, which when put together portray a story - that makes it targeted towards males. If I tried to explain comics to people, there's nothing in the explanation that makes it male-only.
And in fact, there's plenty of people writing family-friendly and female-targeted comic books. They're just distributed through the Internet these days, and funded through advertising and merchandise. There's plenty of people reading them, along with manga and similar media.
> Comics were never supposed to be educational or have any non-entertainment value and primary tarted at hormones soaked male teens.
This hasn't been true of comic books for several decades now. The medium has many examples of high quality, well written, and unique books. Also, the demographics of comics has changed many times over the last 100 years, the focus on men over the last couple of decades is recent phenomenon in the grand scheme of things.
