Though I Know I Don't Deserve It - Tumblr Posts

While I definitely understand not enjoying bad plotlines, there's still a pretty hefty gap between the kinds of people seen as heroes in comics and nerd culture and the world we live in. It trends toward white, heterosexual men. And that's just not the world we live in.

So people make a fuss. They want more stories with PoC characters, with women, with gay/lesbian/transgender people.

Sometimes the stories they get aren't as good as they could be. But that doesn't mean the diversity is the problem. The problem is the writing and the diversity is the straw man.

Nobody's thrilled with the idea of Nazi Captain America, but I haven't seen a lot of people calling to bring back Sam Wilson (Falcon, who had taken up the Captain America shield before this). Whereas if you cast Spider-Man as a Latino kid, all of a sudden people want Peter Parker back.

There are plenty of great writers who write diversity well. Just because we haven't been pleased with the results yet doesn't mean we throw out new ideas. Challenging yourself to write beyond your comfort zone is hard and scary. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't stop asking for it nor that it can't provide us with tremendous, emotionally charged pieces of fiction in the future.

Bunch of white straight dudes mock the need for “safe spaces” but flip their goddamn shit when minorities say stuff like “hey maybe we can be included in stuff like scifi/fantasy stuff”, saying stuff like “I PLAY GAMES/READ COMICS/BOOKS/WATCH MOVIES TO GET AWAY FROM ALL THIS PC CULTURE BULLSHIT, SO INCLUDING WOMEN OR LGBT OR POC IS JUST PUSHING AN AGENDA AND IT’S NOT FAIR TO US”…

… So who exactly is demanding that the entire world be THEIR “safe space” again?