On Being a Girl Geek
I think one of the reasons I liked A-Ha’s video for “Take On Me” so much — besides the fact that it’s one of the greatest music videos of all time — is because it showed a girl reading a comic book (and getting sucked into the comic book — how cool is that?). (via YouTube)
I’m old enough to remember getting funny looks when I went to the local comic store. Girls didn’t read comic books. Girls didn’t go to comic stores. That was the stereotype, that was the message. I kept doing it anyway. I needed my “G.I. Joe” fix.
Happily, I don’t get funny looks anymore. In fact, there’s likely to be a girl working behind the counter.
I love progress.
