#FireRickRemender and Rape Threats Online
#FireRickRemender and Rape Threats Online
I was going to stay well out of the #FireRickRemender debacle because frankly I don’t read Captain America nor do I have a strong opinion on Remender as a writer in either direction. But now someone has pissed me off.
I was sent this piece on Jezebel last night. They invoke what happened to me…
Kamentz had a stupid thought – that her lack of deep relationships with non-white sources reflected on those sources, rather than on her journalism. She aired her thought in public. People corrected her. She changed her thinking. That’s actually how social media is supposed to work for reporters. It’s not just a place where you broadcast your stories to a grateful audience, never embarrassing your employer or yourself. It’s a place where you can also think out loud and get feedback.
And Down Again
Cars, planes, airports and hotel rooms all share a single sound: that constant tv-show-spaceship susurrus of air-conditioning. So many hotels seem to embrace the metaphor. It’s not a serviced room in a communal space you rent. It’s an excursion pod, a lander, a module from which you can view the alien vista outside. The more you pay, the bigger the module, the more chance there is of having a…
This reminds me of the fact that I’m not going to Comic-Con this year, meaning that my traditional five-day-or-so sojourn in hotel rooms won’t be happening. It’s a very strange experience, that almost-week, and the hum of the air conditioning (and resultant chill as I get out of bed each day) is a constant part of it.
As upset as I was about not going when I found out, the closer we get to the event, the more at peace–perhaps even eager–about not attending I get.
(I really enjoy Ellis’ short essays each day on Morning, Computer.)
Well, they have given CBR the news about a new creator-owned book by Jason Aaron and Ron Garney, Men Of Wrath. [blah, blah, blah] He describes the book, and the lead character hitman Ira Wrath—
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Little known fact: Ira Wrath is, in fact, the birth name of the host of This American Life.
There are more ladies working on Lumberjanes than there are in the whole of Marvel’s September solicits. It’s ridiculous.
Hey, remember when Marvel launched its “Characters and Creators” initiative to boost female representation at the publisher? That was less than half a year ago.
Is it a conscious decision to keep Amelia single? I personally think it’s great either way that she doesn’t fall into the whole, “If only I had a man…”funk some writers put their female characters in.
Now this is Adam answering and I am answering for me here, really so keep that in mind. THAT SAID: On my end it came from a place of “She doesn’t have TIME.” Just being realistic here. She’s a busy, busy woman holding down a really strange job and in a place that, while she is used to it, is still fairly new to her all told. Doesn’t mean she won’t eventually have a relationship (And wait a second! Who says it would be with a man? Or with a human? Or with any specific gender over any other? We’ve never had her in a relationship so we haven’t mentioned her preferences in that area yet. Hell, she may be asexual. Perfectly fine thing to be. We’re not telling as of now.) but if she is ever in a place to have a relationship it is something I feel we would discuss amongst ourselves a good long time before pulling the trigger on so that we could do it justice and with all the care we put into everything about Amelia.
TL;DR – Yeah – she’s kinda in a war right now, bad time to go out on dates.
I don’t know what it says about me that I have never even once thought “I wonder why Amelia doesn’t have a boy- or girlfriend” during the… two years, I guess, of me reading the series.
Ultimately, Internet outrage is the milquetoast cousin to direct action, a way to protest by tapping and clicking rather than boycotting and marching. It is a noble endeavor to become incensed about a cause and risk arrest or toil without acclamation for one’s deeply held beliefs. Less honorable is joining a digital pile-on as a means of propping up one’s ego, even if it comes in the form of entertaining zings.
On Social Media, Some Are Susceptible to Internet Outrage – NYTimes.com
fake dichotomies will be the death of me
thinkpieces about outrage will be the other death of me
people who talk about outrage in generalized times will be the other other death of me
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