This is an excellent article on the topic. Well worth the read.
Its pretty good, I think it neglects one huge angle though. Myself personally? I disagree with Havok's stance strongly, but its probably the most common stance I come across as far as a person who is okay with being labeled pro gay, pro LGBT, feminist, agnostic, atheist, and like a hundred other things. That X-Books and the world of mutants would lack such a presence and voice totally makes the world unrealistic and way too simple and way too basic.
Havok's view is pretty naive, idealistic, well intentioned but yeah kind of naive, but pretty much all the views presented as far as minorities in Marvel have been naive with the exception of a few writers. The writer of the article doesn't cover that angle, because I agree with them, that the "its just a story" defense doesn't cut it, but reality isn't filled with people whose politics are refined or advanced and neither have any of the minority politics reflected by any characters or writers in recent times demonstrated this either. Havok's speech does one thing though, it adds to the overall depth of those minority politics by voicing an all too real grey angle and perspective.
Then the writer of article takes issue with a writer writing issues but not wanting to discuss their writing in a real life context? So does Garth Ennis open himself up to having twitter conversations about rape, cannibalism, necrophilia and the like now too? They also assume a whole bunch to make their arguments fit. They fail to consider the alternatives as well as because of those assumptions. It kind of undermines their arguments, because ironically its that same failure to identify the nuisances, attitudes, ways of how people approach conformity/deviation/segregation/assimilation that is the reason why racial, gender so on issues persist today.
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