An 11-Year-Old Wrote a Powerful Letter to DC Comics, and Here's What They Did

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UPDATE: DC Comics presented Rowan with a superhero sketch based on herself. Get the full story on Today News.

Listen up, DC Comics. An admirable 11-year-old girl named Rowan disapproves of the lack of female superheroes in the comic world and is determined to change that. Last week, a blog called This Mess uploaded a photo (with the permission of Rowan and her parents) of a letter she wrote to the publishing company. It has since gone viral, even grabbing the attention of DC Comics itself. Perhaps, in addition to the disappointing number of female leads, she's tired of seeing sexist shirts that say things like "Training to be Batman's wife."

Source: This Mess

Here's the full text of the letter . . .

Dear DC comics,

My name is Rowan and I am 11 years old. I love superheroes and have been reading comics and watching superhero cartoons and movies since I was very young. I'm a girl, and I'm upset because there aren't very many girl superheroes or movies and comics from DC.

For my birthday, I got some of your Justice League Chibis. I noticed in the little pamphlet that there are only 2 girl Chibis, and 10 boys. Also, the background for the girl figures was all pink and purple. I remember watching Justice League cartoons when I was really young with my dad. There are Superman and Batman movies, but not a Wonder Woman one. You have a Flash TV show, but not a Wonder Woman one. Marvel Comics made a movie about a talking tree and raccoon awesome, but you haven't made a movie with Wonder Woman.

I would really like a Hawkgirl or Catwoman or the girls of the Young Justice TV show action figures please. I love your comics, but I would love them a whole lot more if there were more girls. I asked a lot of the people I know whether they watched movies or read books or comics where girls were the main characters, they all said yes.

Please do something about this. Girls read comics too and they care.

Sincerely, Rowan

DC Comics heard Rowan's pleas and responded on Twitter.

Thanks Rowan. We agree, we're working hard to create more superhero fun for girls!

— DC Comics (@DCComics) January 30, 2015

Yes Rowan, girls read comics too! Wonder Woman movie & Supergirl TV both in the works, with more exciting girl power announcements soon!

— DC Comics (@DCComics) January 30, 2015

It's a start, but there's still much work to do when the few female leads are grossly sexualized in ways their male counterparts are not.