Did you ever stop to think?

I took a lot of time trying to think about my contribution to this: “Women In Refrigerators, 13 years later”. Initially, my first efforts consisted of pages of lines along the lines of young me + reading Ms Marvel’s initial run = woe. And then I tried to write a thing about a thing. But that sucked. And then, after a pretty damn woeful attempt at drawing a cheesecake heroine (which sucked), I realised something.

There was a common theme in all my responses. Women In Refrigerators, the site, helped me realise something. It’s something I’ve taken with me ever since. I know that I, the silent, stunned girl reader, matter. I know my thoughts and my responses matter.

And I think that, even now, though I do not know the answers, at least I’ve started to understand the questions.