I read the article you linked (well, part of it) and boy howdy it was painful.

First of all, the fact that Femme Fatale is a hypocrite clearly escapes the author. That lovely exchange with the PPG that they apparently found reasonable was just her putting other female superheroes and villains down (notice how she dismisses Batgirl and Supergirl as “female extensions of their male counterparts,” and reduces Sedusa and Princess to “that little brat and the chick in the underwear” while claiming to support women).

Second, this person is calling the opening bits of the episode that demonstrate how egalitarian Townsville is (e.g. the Professor wearing a pink apron while he does dishes, the little girl getting hit with a ball and getting up to chase a boy, etc) as “genderfluid”…what?

Third, I’ve just about had it with people praising female villains as role models. No, Femme Fatale is not a feminist icon for robbing a bank and splaying the Venus symbol all over her outfit and weaponry to reinforce she’s a woman. She’s a criminal, and one who reasserts who much better women are than men so often it feels like she’s overcompensating (assuming she isn’t just being a hypocrite).

EDIT: Wow, I read a bit further and suddenly it makes sense - they are just like Femme Fatale!

On the left we have the plain-Jane Kindergarten teacher Ms. Keane: a caretaking, caregiving, non-administrative staff of the community Kindergarten. On the right, in no need of introduction, is the curvaceous assistant to the mayor Ms. Bellom: the genius behind the city’s operations, who is complacent providing mayoral duties and receiving no credit, while being totally reduced to her busty rack, fine-shaped hips, and long legs! Yes, doesn’t this sound like an amazing team to talk the PPG back into their fem-moderism, two non-administrative gender-conformist who lack career ambition and are complacent with not being recognized for diligence and service equal to men? The two fem-moderates, if even, go on to trivialize the PPG’s newly found ideology as they seek to return the girls to a feminism that can easily assimilate into patriarchal culture without causing rifts.



Did this person seriously just disrespect Ms. Keane and Ms. Bellum like that? No wonder they’re so offended by this episode, it’s aimed at them!

