{"id":18865,"date":"2013-12-15T20:30:08","date_gmt":"2013-12-15T20:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/12\/15\/paul-dini-tells-kevin-smith-about-hollywoods-fear\/"},"modified":"2013-12-15T20:30:08","modified_gmt":"2013-12-15T20:30:08","slug":"paul-dini-tells-kevin-smith-about-hollywoods-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/12\/15\/paul-dini-tells-kevin-smith-about-hollywoods-fear\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Dini Tells Kevin Smith about Hollywood’s Fear of Girl Cooties"},"content":{"rendered":"

dcwomenkickingass<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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And to think just earlier this week you had the New York Times calling Hollywood about their long time claims about not being able to lead movies.<\/a> And now you have a big name comic and animated creator telling us exactly what Hollywood thinks of girls when it comes to shows targeted at kids.<\/p>\n

Paul Dini is interviewed on Kevin Smith\u2019s Fatman on Batman<\/a> podcast this week and during it he explains from personal experience how Hollywood devalues female viewers and female characters. Dini was, of course one of the creators on Batman: The Animated Series.<\/em> He has also written and produced a number of other animated shows including Batman Beyond <\/em>in addition to writing comics. The Emmy award-winning creator also had a live-action show targeted to younger viewers call Tower Prep<\/em>.<\/p>\n

In the interview, transcribed by Agelfeygelach<\/a>\u00a0Dini talks about the change in how Hollywood views the audience for animation (this starts around 41:00.- bold is mine)<\/p>\n

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But then, there\u2019s been this weird\u2014there\u2019s been a, a sudden trend in animation, with super-heroes. Like, \u2018it\u2019s too old. It\u2019s too old for our audience, and it has to be younger. It has to be funnier.\u2019 And that\u2019s when I watch the first couple of episodes of Teen Titans Go!, it\u2019s like those are the wacky moments in the Teen Titans cartoon, without any of the more serious moments. \u2018Let\u2019s just do them all fighting over pizza, or running around crazy and everything,\u00a0\u2019cause our audience\u2014the audience we wanna go after, is not the Young Justice audience any more. We wanna go after little kids, who are into\u2014boys who are into goofy humor, goofy random humor, like on Adventure Time or Regular Show.<\/strong> We wanna do that goofy, that sense of humor, that\u2019s where we\u2019re going for.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Okay, so they want younger kids. But wait, it gets worse.<\/p>\n

Dini talks a bit about Young Justice<\/em> and how it had a sophisticated mythology (he calls them \u201cBuffy style stories) but now they have to be, based on his interactions and observations, funny and \u2026 NOT FOR GIRLS\u2026 (warning f bombs ahoy!)<\/p>\n

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