Oh ye of little faith: Is humanity the bane of the Earth?

Jon doesn't think so.

Jon thinks you should fly that American flag loud and proud.

Fuck the thousands of Native's your country killed for something as common as land.

Fuck the fact that the white man has and still does disgusting things to minorities.

No, humanity is a blessed and sacred thing.

We've already discussed Jon's apparent affinity for humanity and relating being human with everything good in this world. Jon goes as far as to hate on the film Avatar because it shows humans in a negative light instead of a positive one. What Jon fails to mention is that the plot to his book is basically the same, except it's the humans being invaded rather than doing the invading.

Jon doesn't seem to think that humans are greedy enough to rob other planets of their materials in the future.

Wakey, wakey Jon. We're stealing resources right now from Native's all over the world.

If we can do it to our fellow humans, why not another species?

Because he's American damn it, and he'll be damned the day he lets a movie accurately represent what his ancestors did to those poor Native's all those years ago.

Yay American patriotism!

Jon's ridiculous optimism when it comes to humans is actually rather pathetic. Why? because he puts so much faith into humans being genuinely good hearted people and then he forgets that people like himself exist.

People who hate other genders for no particular reason.

People who deny the fact that they benefited from the downfall and exclusion of other races.

But most of all, people who just don't know when to admit they're wrong.

Morgalla's not trying to impress anyone... but she is.

Jon thinks that because he puts Morgalla in the same generic outfit every time we see her that means she's simplistic in design, chooses comfort over style and practicality over fashion.

Well, it's true that she certainly doesn't have style... or any kind of fashion sense.

Seriously, who would even look 'down there'? Is he referring to her chest because that is some screwed up anatomy and I can't tell if those are boobs or some sort of ledge that flattens off.

Oh look, Jon's favourite past time of 'pick on books that are actually better than mine even though they're still pretty awful.' Seriously though, it's about time Morgalla got a wardrobe.

You'd never guess she was a mindless puppet used by a conservative perma-virgin to promote outdated Republican viewpoints. Never in a million years.

No really, it's like she's that unfunny, anti-culture guy in your group who never washes and thinks he's so progressive because he wrote 'fuck the man' on his shirt.

Political soap box? What political soap box?

May the God's have mercy on our souls.

(I don't think boobs work like that Jon. Then again, how would you know? The reason you wrote this book is because you've never seen a pair of tits in your life)

She Ra: Oh No! Expressed feminine attributes!

Jon really does hate anything feminine.

I've got to admit, this is another thing I never watched - but I don't need to have watched it to know Jon's main issues with it.

I could have given him some points if he'd said that She-Ra didn't have many lines, she wasn't good in battle or she just stood there and didn't do much. Those are genuine complaints that would have out-lined some kind of caring about leaving a female character as nothing more than a 2D cut out.

But we all know Jon better than to expect him to care about developing female characters.

His main complaint is 'She-Ra was a Barbie doll that rode around on a unicorn and had a side-kick with a heart on his chest.'

Sounds like a legitimate complaint... if Jon actually meant to criticise her non-diverse looks and actually cared about the body image and self esteem issues girls face.

What Jon actually means is that he really has something against a little bit of both. He resents good looking women and he resents the female aspect of She-Ra. He doesn't like the idea of a woman still being powerful if she openly admits to liking unicorns and enjoying the cuter things in life.

I myself have to say a few things about her appearance. She's a typical blonde, slim-figured, big boobed woman. That's typical of the show because look at He-Man. What guy actually looks like that? Sure I'd like to see something different. A black woman. A big woman. A woman with a different body shape. However, just because a woman is conventionally pretty doesn't mean she can't be strong.

Most of all, just because a woman is particularly feminine doesn't mean she can't kick arse. I've mentioned before how both men and women have been lead to think that all things girly are weak and futile. Bitch, I bleed out of my vagina once a month. Kick me in the uterus and I'll laugh at you, cause my body does worse than that to me on a pretty regular basis. If I want to ride into battle on a fucking unicorn then fuck you I hope my unicorn's horn skewers your pathetic ass. Let's all remember this female icon :-

This girl saved the world countless times and even sacrificed her life to do so. What was her power? Love and moon beams. So just because something is inherently feminine doesn't mean it should immediantly be replaced with something masculine just for the sake of making it tough. Maybe there are valid complaints with She-Ra, especially about making her body more realistic. However, the show was aired in 1983 having a few re-incarnations. There were bound to be stereotypes and poorly developed female characters.

However, Jon's complaint doesn't seem to be that she could have a more realistic figure but that she should have a more masculine figure - like Morgalla. This really isn't a step forward for feminism or women in general. Morgalla's figure is as equally extreme as She-Ra's and though Morgalla isn't Barbie, it's interesting to say that she actually takes on more of a He-Man figure. 

So, the idolised female figure She-Ra represents is bad and in Jon's words 'plastic'. Yet, the unrealistic, idolised male figure that He-Man represents is A-Okay and even totally viable for women?

Another example of Jon's hypocrisy. He doesn't understand that idolising one body type as the only body type a woman can have if she wants to be strong is equally as sexist as constantly portraying us as big-breasted and skimpy.

If she ain't full of muscles, she ain't a hero! (Oh the hypocrisy!)

In one of Jon's posts we saw this picture :-

and this beautiful little caption followed it. 'Kick her butt She-Hulk!'

Maybe you're all about to tell me I'm reading too much into this; you're screaming 'Toxic, surely this man can have an opinion' and normally dear follower, you'd be right - but this is Jon, therefore his opinion is always wrong.

Notice how Jon always goes for the muscle bound ladies. He really has something against the slim lined women, or the women who have more of an athletic figure rather than a body building one.

I don't personally know much about She-Hulk but I love Rogue. What I can tell you about She-Hulk is that Jon probably only likes her because she has that muscle figure he really seems to like.

Not to mention Rogue is actually rather feminine despite the fact that she's tough as old boots.

Jon doesn't like that.

Jon thinks that for a woman to be valuable she must abandon all femininity and literally become a man.

To bad Rogue don't give a damn, darlin'.

This is quickly becoming a Rogue appreciation post.

Bite me.

Poison Ivy: the sum of all Jon's nightmares.

The title to this particular blog post really is a swing at the author. He's labelled Poison Ivy a misandrist environmentalist on many occasions. What I love most about this is the continuing debate as to whether misandry exists. I personally don't think it does. A woman can hate a man for having typical male behaviours i.e. being a sexist or telling sexist jokes. However, a woman's hatred for a man will never affect his ability to get a job, to go out when he pleases or ever affect his ability to feel safe in his surroundings. However, misogyny means that women who aren't as pretty are less likely to get that promotion, misogyny means us women better watch what time we feel like going for a jog or whose standing next to us in an elevator.

The best part of this is that Poison Ivy isn't a misandrist; she just doesn't take shit from any of the men in Gotham. Pamela is a real stand on her own villain who came to represent the much under-appreciated female face of crime in the Dark Knight's home city. Without her, the female populace seems a little thin and the other female villains rely too much on men to really set them apart. Catwoman isn't exactly a real baddie, especially considering in an AU she has Bruce's son and/or daughter depending on which AU you go by. Harley Quinn I'll come to later but even she needed the Joker.

Pamela Isley didn't need a man and what I think threatens Jon the most is that she has the power to seduce. Personally, I love this power. Even though I don't think femininity should be criminalised, I love the fact that Ivy is allowed to be as unapologetically clever as she is whilst still being able to just push men around. I mean, why not? Women throw themselves at Batman all the time, and at Nightwing. Why can't it be a woman for once who has the ability to be beautiful and use it to her deadly advantage? Mostly, I think Jon is bitter towards this idea of a women who doesn't have any kind of commitment to men. Pamela isn't a misandrist because she thinks all men are inferior. She thinks humans in general are inferior and that she's better than them.

Here comes the second part of Jon's worst nightmare... she loves the environment. We all know Jon has a deep seated hatred of hippies and the like, so to make a deadly, unmistakably intelligent woman an eco-warrior probably makes Jon shit his pants. He doesn't give Ivy her props because she's a great villain whose fighting for her humanity after literally being turned into a plant; he's just interested in calling her a freak.

If anything, Ivy should have been where Jon learnt his lesson about mixing species. Pamela is turned into a plant mutant who couldn't care less about humanity, despite the fact that she was human. However, the animated series and comics have her form a rare friendship with Harley and we see the woman who couldn't care less about 'flesh-bags' deal with the most annoying human possible, but still manage to regain enough of her own humanity to care about Harley's well-being.

Jon states that 'All men are property. All women are competition; that is the heart of Poison Ivy.' Jon obviously doesn't understand Ivy's character very well. Although her appearance may suggest otherwise, Ivy isn't all about the men. In many incarnations she's not bothered about the men around her, they're just pawns for her to use and so to say that she views all women as 'competition' is incorrect. Mainly because Ivy couldn't give a shit. She's knows there's no competition and most of all she doesn't care about humans in general. This brings me to believe that Jon can't accept that there's a woman that doesn't care about commitment and men without turning her into a snake. He wants to believe that Ivy is all those mean girls that said no to him in the past, and so wants to turn her into a negative stereotype for women as well, effectively trying to convince other females that Ivy is that bitch who used to try to steal your boyfriend.

In reality, Ivy don't give two fucks about you or your boyfriend. She's too busy being a bad ass scientist who wears killer lipstick and enjoys breeding man-eating plants.

So it begins...

Ladies and Gentlemen, boys and girls, we're about to delve into a magical place - a truly whimsical place called Jon Land. In Jon Land, the wild misogynistic thoughts run free, unchecked by those pesky misandrists. There are no trees in Jon Land, or grass or greenery (because please, who wants those stupid environmentalists poking their noses in?) and you get all the muscle bound women you want. Basically it's like a screwed up version of Valhalla where Jon gets all the body-building, extra tough Valkyrie's he could ever hope to find. Can someone say 'fetishisation'?

This Blog, believe it or not, will now be dedicated to another blog which can be found here:-http://morgallasblog.blogspot.co.uk/search?updated-min=2011-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&updated-max=2012-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&max-results=9

Jon starts us off with an interesting perspective on Morgalla, calling her 'a tongue-in-cheek black comedy reply to anime'.  Tongue-in-cheek I can believe, since the only way to swallow this horrendously ridiculous character is to believe that the author couldn't honestly of thought he was ever going to be taken seriously. Morgalla is Jon's fetish personified. She doesn't have a particular personality or even hold up much of a conversation in her own book. Without doubt, she's nothing but a 2D cut out of what Jon thinks all women should be like. In regards to being a black comedy, no where in the un-revised version of Jon's released work did I find Morgalla to be particularly dark or witty. In fact, she's nothing more than a throw away soap box of see through, out-dated republican values that don't even try to be subtle. Morgalla is literally a walking conservative doll, a woman with a man's voice behind her and little else to connect her with her own gender.

Now, I never watched 'DragonSlayer' as a child, or even as an early teen, and I'm not about to go on the recommendations of a certain pending author. However, what I can get from Jon's first description of his inspirations for Morgalla is that he thinks he's managed to create a relatable character who struggles with her identity whilst still remaining strong. Morgalla is made strong in one sense and one sense only. She has muscles and she can fight. Though Jon's terrible writing has a knack for making epic battle scenes absolutely suck so most of the time you don't even care that Morgalla can apparently kick butt.

Jon likes to pretend that Morgalla has strength beyond the rippingly pecks that he gave her, and unfortunately, she just doesn't. Morgalla has no strength in character or personality because she's barely a character. She doesn't express any emotions that are remotely human and when she does, Jon writes it in a way that makes it sound robotic and un-natural. Morgalla comes across as an empty shell, a character who was supposed to be as lonely as Harry Potter in his cupboard and have deep emotional issues with her hellish surroundings.

It's kind of like Jon forgot altogether that he made his character a demon. When you make a hybrid character, especially if the character is half-human, you have to understand how the dynamics of the two separate races work. It's always nice to think of our human side as being the triumphantly good aspect of someone's personality. Who didn't cheer in Lord of the Rings when Aragorn took up the throne of Gondor and the age of man prevailed? Who didn't feel slightly proud when Faramir realised the ring was too powerful for man and fought his corruption? Everyone wants to believe that man = good. That's not hard to recognise with Jon since he has an aversion to films that present humanity negatively. However, making a half human, half demon high breed calls for caution.

Considering Morgalla has been raised in hell and apparently doesn't have much experience with humans, it would only be right to assume that she should be bloody thirsty. No, I don't care that her mother was human. No, I don't care that she's always had more of an inclination towards good than all the other demons in hell. She was raised with other demons, other demons who were merciless and hungry for war. Morgalla should have at least taken on some of their views in her youth. Jon makes the mistake of making Morgalla a special snowflake who for some reason is immune to the rough ideology of her whole society just because she has a few strands of human in her somewhere. He forsakes character development in order to preach about Morgalla feeling more human, even though logic tells us she should be just as bloodthirsty as any other demon.

Morgalla's transition into human emotions should have been a slow and vigorous process that required multiple contact with different humans and probably even life changing experiences. Instead, the story cops out and Morgalla already feels 'different' and 'special' at the start of the book. She'd be a much more interesting character if only the author knew how to write her...