Dear Editors @ Marvel,
And yes Stephen Wacker, this is aimed at you. When fans call out the legitimate issues of the treatment and portrayal of women, POCs and LGBTQs in your Spider-Man comic book such as the following:
“In some ways, I’d actually be LESS offended if the myriad unfortunate implications brought up by the current Marvel crew’s inept storytelling were actually consciously intended, because at least then, even if I disagreed with the worldviews that they were promoting, it could still be a self-aware debate on both sides, whereas the attitudes that Dan Slott and his peers in the “brain trust” have demonstrated, with regard to the attitudes that unconsciously saturate their portrayals of women and race, are pretty much the definition of unexamined straight white male privilege. If you’d bothered to read the comments in the one blog post to which I invited Wacker, you would have seen women and gays and people of color expressing (all in VERY civil ways) how much Marvel’s modern standards of storytelling and audience interaction are HURTING those would-be fans, from Norah Winters’ racist jokes at Michele Gonzales’ expense (a “rice and beans” and “ensalada” line? REALLY?) to the casual slut-shaming of Carlie Cooper implying that any woman who has a “tramp stamp” is indeed a tramp.”
The response NOT TO MAKE is:
“I work with women, gays and people of color who like the book (and even work on it). Now what do we do?”
like i said, wacker than wack
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sparkindarkness regarding queer male media. The following is what I personally own in my library. They feature queer males either as the primary protagonist or in a kickass role. I thought some of these titles might be of interest to some of you.
Ars Marginal 