Originally Posted by
Emperorjones
About Batman, under Tom King, Bruce did become something of a simp regarding Catwoman and I think DC has kept that going (with all that "Bat and Cat" talk). Granted, I've never seen him being tripped on like T'Challa has been, by any Bat/DC characters, male, female, or even villains.
I don't think the hatchet jobs some of today's Black writers are doing for certain characters has little to do with larger fears of them doing likewise to more popular characters, specifically white characters, because they are white (is there as much bemoaning Ta-Nehisi Coates's Captain America run as there has been his Black Panther run?). I would argue most of these Black writers will treat white characters with more respect, or they will be reined in to do so. At best I could see them seeking to insert a proxy Black/person of color character into the book on a "seen and heard", desiring validation kind of thing, but there is not going to be widespread deconstruction. I feel some of these Black writers today are being picked for certain reasons that pertain mostly to Black-led books, and that's it. It doesn't expand out into the other books (well, unless it's a more generalized way, not racially specific or as willfully, dare I say, gleefully deconstructionist).