"Reconsidering 'GYPSY' As an Ethnic Slur As the DC Character Comes to the CW"

[drbat]

Reconsidering 'GYPSY' As an Ethnic Slur As the @DCComics Character Comes to @TheCW https://t.co/HRf4t4aoqE pic.twitter.com/pQsz6RrS9Z
- Newsarama (@Newsarama) January 26, 2017

Sleepy Hollow's actress Jessica Camacho is scheduled to debut as the DC Comics character Gypsy in the January 31 episode of the CW's The Flash, but for some people her arrival

Comments

[sivartt]

which excuse do you think they'll use?

"we're just staying true to the source material!!"
"we aren't using it in a bad way"
"we had no idea people felt that way"
"it doesn't mean that anymore"

[iznanassi]

the first one, it's the comic book go to excuse

[peripheralpill]

i'm going to go with all of the above, but each one from a different party involved

[mhfromnh]

so I guess she'd be calé?

[sluttyroyals]

She's not, afaik.

[saintvlas22]

She's not, and the comics character also isn't - she was a white girl who slapped on some RenFaire shit and called it a day.

[saintvlas22]

I always wonder about that because... are they supposed to change their name? Awks indeed.

[evett]

i know a gypsy too

[arilicious]

who names a kid that? seriously, slur or not, it's an awful name.

[swissbeauty23]

yikes

[babarsuhail]

isn't a Netflix show titled Gypsy starring Miami Watts also coming out this year?

[sluttyroyals]

"Miami Watts" lol
(Yes, there is, and hopefully there's outcry enough to change it)

[wellalr1ght]

Ew, really? Is it supposed to be about someone who's Romani?

[sluttyroyals]

Nope, according to google it's about a therapist getting involved with her patients which ???? what does that have to do with the Rromani lmao