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Via 4thletter!, a quote from a DC Comics panel touching briefly on the recent tendency to fridge CoC to make more room for the white dudes. Ian Sattler helpfully corrects the error in such thinking:
"We don’t see it that way and strive very hard to have a diverse DCU. I mean, we have green, pink, and blue characters."
What. Wot.
Whaaaaaaaaat.
"We don’t see it that way and strive very hard to have a diverse DCU. I mean, we have green, pink, and blue characters."
What. Wot.
Whaaaaaaaaat.
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And the Great Ten, too, seriously, what the shit this is what he pulls out in his defence?
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Betty I don't know I've mocked them by saying stuff like that, but that is only because it is so brick to face stupid it can't be actually what they are thinking. Only I GUESS IT IS.
WHAT DO I DO WITH THAT?
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THE GREAT TEN.
LOOK, I FUCKING PICKED THIS SHIT OUT OF WIKIPEDIA: “Mother of Champions, Real name Niang Guan Jun,[22] is a woman who can birth a litter of twenty-five genetically identical super-soldiers about every three days.”
HEY, SHE HAS LITTERS, SO YOU KNOW IT'S NOT FUCKING RACIST.
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And a friend told me it was actually a pretty good book, but. Like. The KNOOOOOING prevented me from going withing a 10 ft radius of the cover.
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*shoves a copy of Green Lantern/Green Arrow in his face* SEE. EVEN HAL USED TO KNOW BETTER.
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AND IF THAT STORY RESONATED WITH YOU, YOU CAN GET YOUR OWN OFFICIAL DC WP RING!
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My favorite thing about Hal used to be that both he and his writers knew that there were Issues There in terms of him being the Great White Lantern. The current level of nostalgic CLUELESSNESS is deeply, deeply depressing.
I actually do believe that it's a case of deeply, deeply not thinking shit through in most cases, rather than actually and consciously thinking, "You know what we need? MORE WHITE PEOPLE!" But GUYS. THINK THINGS THROUGH. AT LEAST WHEN PEOPLE ARE POINTING THEM OUT TO YOU.
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Oh, sure, but the result is the same, and the conversation is about as useful. It is very *willful* cluelessness (Hal's specialty?), because if they admit their mistakes, they may have to *fix* them. And then it won't be just like when Geoff Johns was twelve!
(...I have got to stop picking on Johns one of these years. Really.)
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Because they don't *see* race, and if you think the representation of brown people is more important than the representation of purple people *you* are the problem?
Yeah. Dunno either.
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Every time I read about shenanigans like this, I remember the time Paul Levitz was at the Gays in Comics panel at ComicCon and spoke so excitedly about the diversity within the company. He sounded sort of like they were collecting Pokemon. "We have an Albanian!" he said, with what I can only describe as delight, while everyone else on the panel tried desperately not to facepalm. I'm 99% sure he used the "green skin" metaphor, too. Or no- I think it was pink hair. Maybe both! Cluelessness, from the top down!
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(Or. No.)
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Only I guess that shouldn't stop me, a real-life person of color, from being likened to them. Suddenly I feel like I need to reevaluate my life! :O THANK YOU, Mister Sattler!
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F'ex, white people? We have some *awesome* stories you might like if you just gave them a chance! AND DC COMICS IS WILLING TO SHARE THEM WITH YOU! :D
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(Oh DCU, I still love ya, but very much in spite of so many things...)
Incidentally, I like how the spokesman used his dismissive Invoking Strangely Colored People tactic as a segue to wave off any of the icky shrill feminists in the audience/readerbase as well. "So this one thing you guys complain about? Nope. Just no. Also this other thing, that's a no too. You're wrong."
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Yeah... I'm still not sure how to read that. Is it "And as analogy, our comics are full of gender! Just for instance, look at all the men! Thus the feminists who complain about lack of gender inclusion are *dumb*!"
Or is it "You know who else whines about stuff? FEMINISTS. You people complaining about the CoC situation don't want to be like FEMINISTS, do you?"
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(Wow, FEMINISTS must be like the absolute bottom of the barrel as far as People Who Voice Concerns to DC Comics. Probably because those silly feminazis just haven't realized that they have nothing to complain about because really, WOMEN are the ones with the real power in the world, which is because now they get to choose when and who they have sex with and god I'm so grossed out that that's an actual opinion. An actual opinion from a guy in a Women's Studies class.)
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(Sigh.)
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You said that you don't want to talk about it, which I understand (it is headachey), but can I ask if you mean there were other, different fails in it, or that this fail was larger than's been reported?
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I am doomed to love DC's characters *forever*, but I've been shedding books for years. And even in the few I do pick up there are bits I have to skip over because they pain me.
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*looks it up in wikipedia*
*goes to drown herself in despair*
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We get the same thing about how we treat our female characters.
And once again DC reminds me of their "Look, we gave you female characters, so quit whining and get back in the kitchen" policy.
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I know very little about them, but everything I *do* hear makes me think omg ew. so. Signs point to yes. :/
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