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Can I please have my username changed to Fabulous Houseboat ?

Thanks.

Can we please stop using the whole "shove down our throats" phrasing? Marvel isn't forcing us to do anything.

I mean, I think your reading makes sense, except for the fact that "mutant" in and of itself was never a slur in the Marvel universe, but rather the commonly accepted way to refer to, well, mutants....

Again, I think you misunderstand how privilege works. I am not saying a white woman who is homeless has all the privilege, I'm saying she likely has certain privileges that a person of color who is...

Privilege isn't all-or-nothing. There are still privileges that come along with, say, whiteness, that extend even to homeless white males, who, for instance, may be privileged over homeless POC in...

Or it could be read as an attempt to universalize the experiences of a particular group or groups that are marginalized and generally thought of as "other." In this way, yes, there are themes in the...

That's it exactly though. Who decides what is an appropriate way to express your passion?

Absolutely! It reminds me of the way the Doctor / companion relationship works when it works well

Brothers addresses this criticism in the piece. Did you keep reading it after the second paragraph where you felt it "fell apart"?

AoS would make a ton of sense.

Re: introducing her separate from Hawkeye, would you want there to eventually be a romance between them, or just keep them separate?

Well, that's sure one way to look at it. By not engaging with what Brothers is actually saying at all.

This made my afternoon.

Yeah, exactly. And Dawn's presence I think is going to a long way toward balancing things out when Surfer does start to get maudlin or overly existential or whatever. And maybe it'll even help ol'...

How's that?

Speaking of the way the comics world handles outrage, while I was looking for that Brothers piece I came across a more recent one that is addressing a lot of the stuff that we're trying to deal with...

The only "evidence" anyone has is what's been said in interviews by Remender, Alonso, etc. (who all claim that these changes came about organically and were not editorial edicts) and yet you prefer...

Introducing Bobbi to the MCU is something I've been wanting for a long time now

I mean I feel like the Havok stuff is much, much less clear-cut, and that the detractors (of whom there were many, from varying backgrounds) had really valid criticism. See for instance David...

That people should kill themselves by drowning in the urine of homeless people? Yeah okay

I think you and Kieran are in agreement then, with the exception that Kieran feels that such problematic language--regardless of intent--should be called out. Which I think I agree with.

I really liked issue four, probably the most out of all the issues so far. That said, I totally agree with this:

I hope so! Arrow may have it's grimdark moments but it's also FUN. Flash looks like it'll be even more fun. The DC film universe seems to be doubling down on the joylessness. No thanks.

Well, comics characters at least age SOMEWHAT. Though w/ DC they do tend to hit the reset button every decade or so and start over.

Whoa, yeah. Totally. And I'm sitting here thinking about how I didn't really even notice it when it was said, and how the fact that it didn't jump out at me is a problem that I really ought to work...

Exactly. I think there's a tendency to want cookie cutter solutions to oppression, but unfortunately it just doesn't work that way. There are too many different factors at play, too many different...