Yes, the article is about season 2. Without giving away any spoilers it has to do with equating prejudice against real-life minorities with prejudice against fictitious super-powered minorities.
I'm a fan of the show overall but it does have a problem with portraying POC characters. It's also worth noting that Jessica Jones is still the only part of the MCU that consistently includes LGBT people, (although there is also Karolina Dean on Runaways, but I don't know if that counts as a part of the MCU.) but with that being said I want the show to get better at how it portrays LGBT people too.
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I don't really think Supergirl has a minority problem as much as it has a Jimmy Olsen problem.
He's a character without a role to play on the series. Winn Schott does most of the
traditional sidekick stuff. So they give Jimmy a romance with Supergirl so there's a point to him being there.
Then when that didn't work, they made him into a another costumed hero in a show where Super Girl and Martian Manhunter are regular characters.
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Well the minority problem is associated of course with a black male being paired with a white lead character, which of course is a major no no in television.
With that said, he doesn't really need to be the tech guy or sidekick guy per say. There's nothing wrong with Jimmy's character essentially being the romantic partner as long as he's 3-dimensional and has his own things going as well. Him being a male lois lane per say is perfectly fine, it's when they took that away when it became a problem. Because now he's just there.
Not looking at the article since I haven't watched season 2 yet, but isn't that what the X-Men have been doing since the 70's?
Nico as well, although it isn't clear where this version of the character lands on the sexuality spectrum. And while it is completely disconnected, far as we know, it IS part of the MCU.
It's the same kind of people with the same BS and the same buzzwords.
"A happy ending? So unlikely. We're not having a moment here.
Wrong city, wrong people, all huddling in fear.
No one escapes the slaughterhouse, and that's just where you're at.
(You could've asked Rebecca but then Adam stomped her flat.)
You think you're special cuz you're scrappy? You're deluded, time to go.
Lucy's living on the moon but you're another dead psycho."
The article specifically starts talking about the X-Men and the infamous scenes with Kitty Pryde.
Yeah, I used to like the X-Men movies but I've become completely bored and uninterested in the series. Disney/Marvel might make some good X-Men movies if/when they get the rights but at this point having openly gay characters is the only thing that would make me get hyped for an X-Men movie.
Really, the comparison never made sense to begin with. You can't compare people of color, or in the case of the Bryan Singer films LGBT people, to people who can wipe out entire cities or in a few cases, all of humanity. Nor did it ever really make sense that this prejudice would exist in the Marvel universe.
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