{"id":5042,"date":"2014-09-04T17:58:07","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T17:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/09\/04\/airyairyquitecontrary-thenotsosilentmonk\/"},"modified":"2015-02-20T06:40:03","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T06:40:03","slug":"airyairyquitecontrary-thenotsosilentmonk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/09\/04\/airyairyquitecontrary-thenotsosilentmonk\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-5042 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/09\/04\/airyairyquitecontrary-thenotsosilentmonk\/attachment\/5043\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/files\/2014\/09\/tumblr_n9lozpT3tX1twgs7qo3_500-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/09\/04\/airyairyquitecontrary-thenotsosilentmonk\/attachment\/5044\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/files\/2014\/09\/tumblr_n9lozpT3tX1twgs7qo2_250-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/09\/04\/airyairyquitecontrary-thenotsosilentmonk\/attachment\/5045\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/files\/2014\/09\/tumblr_n9lozpT3tX1twgs7qo1_250-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/airyairyquitecontrary.tumblr.com\/post\/95597597182\/thenotsosilentmonk-deducecanoe\">airyairyquitecontrary<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/thenotsosilentmonk.tumblr.com\/post\/95436302966\/deducecanoe-reservoircat-mutant-101\">thenotsosilentmonk<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/deducecanoe.tumblr.com\/post\/93702549767\/reservoircat-mutant-101-professor-xavier\">deducecanoe<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/reservoircat.tumblr.com\/post\/93701426901\/mutant-101-professor-xavier-should-put-in-a-call\">reservoircat<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Mutant 101 &#8211; Professor Xavier Should Put In A Call To Her Parents &#8211; <em>5 Year Old Mia Stares Down <a class=\"tumblelog\" href=\"http:\/\/tmblr.co\/myOtbOau9w004jQjYvSeAWg\">marvelentertainment<\/a>&#8216;s Cast Of Guardians Of The Galaxy As She Crushes Them In A Game Of GotG Trivia On <a class=\"tumblelog\" href=\"http:\/\/tmblr.co\/m3maGrhyM3-NUP6rar419cg\">jimmykimmellive<\/a> [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OnSu4bccYl8&amp;feature=youtu.be\">X<\/a>]\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Vin Diesel in the background looking at her like \u201cSHE\u2019S PERFECT. \u00a0WANT ONE.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I thought girls didn\u2019t like Super Heroes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>You thought\u00a0<strong>what?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Also, bless five-year-old girls who can confidently pronounce the words \u2018cybernetic enhancements\u2019 because they\u2019re so interested in superhero adventures that they saw no obstacle to learning anything at all to understand them better.<\/p>\n<p>And can do it wearing a pink flower headband, if they feel like it.<\/p>\n<p>GIRLS LIKE SUPERHEROES. GIRLS LIKE COMICS. GIRLS HAVE LIKED THESE THINGS FOR AS LONG AS THEY HAVE BEEN AVAILABLE TO LIKE.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/31.media.tumblr.com\/0710b18dbfb3abb70b1d8b788acaa7dc\/tumblr_inline_nasfcshAdz1qdmskj.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(behold,\u00a0<em>three<\/em> girls and\u00a0<em>one<\/em> boy avidly reading new comic books in New York City, 1947, photographed by Ruth Orkin)<\/p>\n<p>What girls <em>don\u2019t<\/em> like is when they\u2019re patronised, and herded towards titles designed according to what grown men think girls are supposed to like, and ignored with regard to titles that those men assume are just for boys and men. What girls <em>don\u2019t<\/em> like is not being allowed to choose for themselves what they like.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is not a new concept. This is noted in\u00a0<em>Chaucer.<\/em> What every woman most desires is to choose her own way.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>airyairyquitecontrary: thenotsosilentmonk: deducecanoe: reservoircat: Mutant 101 &#8211; Professor Xavier Should Put In A Call To Her Parents &#8211; 5 Year Old Mia Stares Down marvelentertainment&#8216;s Cast Of Guardians Of The Galaxy As She Crushes Them In A Game Of GotG Trivia On jimmykimmellive [X]\u00a0 Vin Diesel in the background looking at her like \u201cSHE\u2019S PERFECT. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/09\/04\/airyairyquitecontrary-thenotsosilentmonk\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[81,51],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5042"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5046,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5042\/revisions\/5046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}