3. Women Who Kick Ass - San Diego Comic-Con, 2013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkX1yte5u74 Comic-Con's "Women Who Kick Ass" panel of 2013 is definitely an example of the ugly. Yet most of the panel was not only fine, but quite well-composed and uplifting for those who cared to see it. When you gather Katee Sackhoff (Kara "Starbuck" Thrace from Battlestar Galactica), Tatiana Maslany (the endlessly cloned star of Orphan Black), Danai Gurira (Michonne from The Walking Dead), Maggie Q (TV's Nikita); and Michelle Rodriguez (from the Fast & Furious and Resident Evil movies, Avatar,
and Lost), you're going to end up with some interesting stories. But as the panel ran into overtime as most panels did that day, certain members of the audience, generally male, started murmuring, louder and louder. If you're wondering why they didn't just get up and leave, the reason is simple: and 20th Century Fox and Marvel were slated to introduce footage from their film projects afterward. Because Hall H is so difficult to get into, many of the fans would have sat through a panel about model ducks rather than miss the chance to see the first public screening of
Guardians of the Galaxy footage anywhere. And yet, in the end, there's no excuse for the vocal unrest in the face of an important issue, let alone the one attendee who greeted the end of "Women Who Kick Ass" by shouting "Women who talk too much!" Todd Vanderwerff's
eyewitness account has a lot more to say about the battle-of-the-sexes tension in the air. It was not a proud moment to be a fan.