Double post. Seriously, I have to wait 30 seconds to post when I haven’t posted in a day.
Last edited by Psyknight; 08-12-2018 at 04:54 PM.
Elizabeth Braddock and Brian Braddock were supposed to have the same parents (mother and father) so their appearance should not vary that greatly.
Tokenism is just having one minority around for "diversity" purposes but not really doing anything with it or with them having nothing to do with other characters of that group. Psylocke has no emotional connections to Asians whatsoever. No real reason to keep her that way. And yeah in today's world deciding a white woman has to become Asian to be a martial artist is super offensive.
Not to mention years ago the editor in chief of Marvel getting busted for masquerading as a Japanese writer, and at that point they were even saying it was a sign of diversity (2003-2006) that an Asian guy was writing certain Marvel books.
It's worth mentioning that Psylockes martial arts skills were learnt overnight from the Asian body in that story. What will she inherit from sapphire Styx? Sociopathic tendencies
Alter Carbon is built to discuss that idea tho and one of biggest premise of the show "what is identity". There is no gripes because they sit down and they show/discuss these idea over and over in the show but look at Cloud Atlas complaints when they put their actors in asian makeup in story about reincarnation. Bodies are slabs of meat on Alter Carbon . Psylocke is different case got Asian body and they never bother to flesh out what she is properly. The fact that people are asking that if Psylocke keeps her ninjutsu instead of asking if story will cover physical difference in one body doing martial arts for years and adjusting to body that has never done Martial arts shows story is poorly done.
PS to those people being Asian isn't what makes Psylocke martial artist.Sigh.. Psylocke switching bodies with Lebron wouldn't make her good at basketball.
Would you have said a year ago that Hollywood had a sexual harassment problem or that America has problem with some people calling the police on black people for basically nothing? Just because something went on for long period of time doesn't mean it wasn't a problem. The Majority is pretty insensitive to the issue of minorities let's not try to use hey nobody was complaining about it and it went on for so long as legit excuse.Psylocke has been issue for years and it is way less obvious than Fu Manchu Stereotype that was the Mandarin. It is easy to understand how it went on so long Psylocke is an amazing character except for one detail. It only comes up when you start to praise the character for being so good. Psylocke is arguably to most visible Asian character in comics one of couple A -list Asian characters, She is a great leader and good example what happens when you develop an Asian character, It is great Asian women can dress up like their favorite Asian character except that Psylocke is British white woman. People are not projecting this is an issue anyways quote from Chris Claremont interview
"CN: Do you ever sort of look back and think … “If only I’d just introduced an Asian mutant, instead of changing—instead of putting a white character in an Asian body. Like bringing back Yukio, or … creating a new character that could have served the same visuals, but—
CC: I mean, oh yeah. Second thoughts are par for the course. But again, it’s … it’s the rule of unanticipated consequences. You know. Doing something in 1988 because “it’s a giggle,” one never thinks thirty years down the line and goes, “Aeeaahhh~.” You know?
Last edited by Killerbee911; 08-14-2018 at 04:22 AM.
While I'm willing to wait to see how the story turns out, I'm not a fan of turning Psylock white again.
Some of us wait, some of us act.
Kwannon was never meant to be more than a footnote to Psylocke's history and to the effects of the Legacy Virus.And it's not like Betsy held Kwannon in contempt,because she wasn't looking for selfish revenge against Matsu'o when it hit the fan.
Bringing back Kwannon in her "body of birth" is in itself extremely messy,because that body has actually been part of Psylocke's legacy *only*.You can complain about how "icky" this all is,I guess.
As I said before,the issue of "culture appropriation" is entirely enigmatic to me.I've always seen Psylocke as a British spirit forced to inhabit an Asian body and I accepted this as comic book science.Nothing offensive about it at all.
A bigger question for me is how can her body come back from someone like Sapphire? She collects souls...not physical bodies...you would need someone who could create a body.
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