Nerdist Creates Generic Lady Justice to Bring Attention to the Injustice of Female Superhero Merch

Jill Pantozzi

Published: Jun 24, 2015 06:30 pm

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I feel like we made this. Did we make this? Did Nerdist possess our bodies for a day?

Jessica Chobot stars in Nerdist’s parody of the very real, very annoying situation of female comic book characters getting the shaft when it comes to toys and other merch. And yes, a female character getting replaced by a male character for a toy of a specific scene is a thing that happened recently.

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Jill Pantozzi

Jill Pantozzi is a pop-culture journalist and host who writes about all things nerdy and beyond! She’s Editor in Chief of the geek girl culture site The Mary Sue (Abrams Media Network), and hosts her own blog “Has Boobs, Reads Comics” (TheNerdyBird.com). She co-hosts the Crazy Sexy Geeks podcast along with superhero historian Alan Kistler, contributed to a book of essays titled “Chicks Read Comics,” (Mad Norwegian Press) and had her first comic book story in the IDW anthology, “Womanthology.” In 2012, she was featured on National Geographic’s "Comic Store Heroes," a documentary on the lives of comic book fans and the following year she was one of many Batman fans profiled in the documentary, "Legends of the Knight."