DC Comics: eliminating non-buyer's remorse.

[brown_betty]

I have been eye-crossingly enraged by DC "Senior Story Editor"* Ian Sattler's comments at Heroes Con, yesterday, the sheer stupidity of which keeps on enfolding like an enormous corpse-flower. Specifically, Sattler said:A serious topic came up about how characters who are minorities who happened to be legacy characters like Ryan Choi are killed

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[ejboer]

"The racism inherent in a Chinese character whose power is her terrifying fertility should be apparent, but litter makes me so mad I can't even. Sows have litters. Dogs have litters. Women have BABIES, you unbelievable piece of shit."

Sows have piglets. Dogs have puppies. I think you might want to check some definitions. A litter is any birthing of multiple offspring. I suppose you could say that its derogatory to the offspring to call their birthing a "litter", but heck they're only alive for a week anyway, I don't think they've got time to be offended when they're off fighting super villains.

And I certainly never imagined that her powers were racist in any way. Just for the sake of complete clarity: we're saying that its racist for a Chinese character to give birth to ten super powered offspring because China currently has a very high population growth rate?

[brown_betty]

Pretending that 'litter' is not primarily used to describe animal births and does not have dehumanizing connotations is naive.

But I guess as a straight white dude, you can pretend whatever the hell you like, since no one's likely to dehumanize you.

[ejboer]

"I am not qualified to discuss it as a story, since I only know it from the statements its writers have made"

Might want to check into it. I haven't read it either, but everyone I've heard from says that she's really only portrayed in a sympathetic light.

As to my ability to critique fiction because of my ethnicity or assumed sexual identification, that doesn't seem here or there.

[brown_betty]

Oh, hey, no, it's not that you can't critique fiction because you're a straight white dude; lots of straight white dudes do fine! You can't critique fiction because you're lacking the necessary logical tools.

[jmatonak]

If the same derogatory imagery can be used for so many groups then it doesn't really seem fair to claim this is a case of "anti-asian racism"

Let me see if I understand this. If you use a derogatory stereotype against more than one group, it isn't derogatory anymore? I don't think that's gonna fly. Just look at how many ethnic and religious groups get hit with "lazy", for instance.

[crabby_lioness]

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