...When people arbitrarily say no for something that literally would not be any hair off their back and would help promote a small fest, just because I'm not willing to pretend to be just like them right now.

A while back, a friend of mine asked if women really needed female superheroes.  This question both surprised and disturbed me, since he’s usually a pretty sensitive white guy.  He had never even considered that women or someone in a minority might want someone who is like them as a role model.  We had a long discussion and he saw things in a new ( Read more... )