--------------44788ACB611248DA0D2245B7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > In my favorite comic book shop here in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, most of the staff who manned the counter are women... but most of their customers are boys... (below 18) and some men like me... (I'm 30 now) Azamin ps... World Cup is 3 days away... Brazil was in Malaysia last week... it's gonna be a football/soccer fever here - an unproductive month ahead as people will be buzy watching the matches on TV. > 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. > > Back to the topic at hand. I apologize if I have offended anyone who > married a wonderful woman who nonetheless insisted on you getting rid > of your comic book collection. I just think that if a woman really > wants to spend the rest of her life with who you are (as opposed to > who she thinks she can mold you into), she would work all your hobbies > and personality quirks into your future lives together. > > Janet "Proud to have never made her husband sell anything against his > will" Harriett --------------44788ACB611248DA0D2245B7 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">In my favorite comic book shop here in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, most of the staff who manned the counter are women... but most of their customers are boys... (below 18) and some men like me... (I'm 30 now)Azamin
ps... World Cup is 3 days away... Brazil was in Malaysia last week... it's gonna be a football/soccer fever here - an unproductive month ahead as people will be buzy watching the matches on TV.
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.--------------44788ACB611248DA0D2245B7--Back to the topic at hand. I apologize if I have offended anyone who married a wonderful woman who nonetheless insisted on you getting rid of your comic book collection. I just think that if a woman really wants to spend the rest of her life with who you are (as opposed to who she thinks she can mold you into), she would work all your hobbies and personality quirks into your future lives together.
Janet "Proud to have never made her husband sell anything against his will" Harriett