"[Groop]Larry and his rant (an even longer long reply)" - a very short reply

[Bruce J. Cole]

> ATTACHMENT part 3.3 message/rfc822 
> From: Pengyfelix@aol.com
> Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 23:27:38 EDT
> Subject: Re: [Groop]Larry and his rant (an even longer long reply)
> To: groop@groo.com
> 
> Which brings me to a sidebar:  one of the difficulties I've found in being a 
> woman interested in comics is that there are so few of us around that I have 
> a hard time convincing many retailers that I am not just along for the ride. 
> It's a little like taking your car to the mechanic: of the three comic shops 
> in our area, only one really addresses me independent of my husband.  I'm 
> still a little astounded to go into a comic book shop and find another woman 
> who is not obviously the mother of one of the twelve year olds digging 
> through the back issue bins.

I've worked in a hobby/comic store for the past year (part time). The only tiem
I've ever seen a woman come in for comics was last month. The only time I've
ever seen a woman in any other comic shop, who was there for comics, was the
girlfriend of the clerk (she sat on the floor reading Strangers in Paradise). 
This does not count a shop in my area which actually has a female clerk. That
one made it into the paper. (I'm serious.)

Bruce (the Beatle nut)





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