#super-sister

[thechronologicalsuperman]

The Chronological Superman 1960:

The Boy of Steel fails to check his internalized misogyny, resulting in an educational hallucination from the alien Shar-La, in Superboy vol.1 No.78.

After saving Shar-La’s ship from crashing, Superboy has some tart words about women drivers. Utilizing technology from her matriarchal world, Shar-La hypntoizes Superboy into a complicated, realistic dream in which he has been transformed into Claire Kent, a.k.a. Super-Sister, complete with all the hassles women must deal with in their everyday lives. Mostly, in the context of the story, that means having to do housework instead of playing outside, but that’s pretty advanced for a kid’s book in 1960.

[bloodandgutsinhighschool]

(From Superboy #78)

Can we all just take a minute to appreciate the infinite badassery of Shar-La? Like, Superboy goes to save her extraterrestrial space-car from crashing, then she reads his mind and realizes he thinks all women are bad drivers, so she turns him into a lady. And then has Superman claim that he is the" "Super-Sister" Claire Kent, and that Claire (Clark) and Conner's bodies have been switched. And so Superboy (as a lady) spends the whole day getting his misogynistic ass beaten and learning to respect women. And then he wakes up and realizes this was all a psychic dream Shar-La forced him to experience so he could learn to respect women. Shar-La is the fucking bomb.