Five Reasons to Love Women Who Love Comics

photo credit to WomenReadComicsInPublic.Tumblr.com One year at New York City Comic Con my best friend and I decided to take a detour to the session of speed dating happening in the basement. It was our last hour at the convention and I was intent on sharing her awesomeness with the unwitting dating world, as friends are known to do. Since it was also the last session of speed dating, it was our last chance to have all the ducks in one pond before they disperse throughout the rest of the world, blending in other habitats and more difficult to properly identify.  

Quite possibly the same person We were halfway through the door before understanding the mistake we made. Sitting quietly in small circles, several dozen men hovered around 2 women in attendance, their discomfited expressions serving as a warning to any woman who dares enter. “You still want to do this?” I surveyed the scene, feeling like an unintentional accomplice to the gender ratio crime. A man laughed from one of the circles. “She should’ve! You would’ve made a hot elf,” he explained to a woman wearing a green Zelda t-shirt. That answered my question as we turned on our heels to walk away. Walking down the hallway we passed a cosplayer dressed as Korra. “Hey,” she called back to us, “do you know where speed dating is?” she asked. “Right there, just on your left,” I directed. As we started away, my friend turned her head to check back on Korra. “You think we should’ve warned her?” she asked. I turned to look…