APE IN A CAPE: Things I Learned From The Journalism About Batgirl #19

gailsimone:

thefingerfuckingfemalefury:

gailsimone:

Not ALL the stories did these things, mind you…but enough did that it got a little weird…

1) Lots of bloggers don’t know the difference between transgender and transvestite.

2) Lots of bloggers and journalists don’t know the difference between Batwoman and Batgirl.

3) Once you say something is…

‘4) Right wing bloggers seem to think the very mention of marginalized people is a deliberate assault on them, personally.’

I wouldn’t refer to bigoted assholes like them as ‘journalists’ myself…the stuff written on the back of a sugar packet has got more worth than the garbage that those pathetic, brainless cretins scribble out

It’s fucking infuriating. The implication is that, with tremendous effort, they MAY be able to tolerate a character who is trans, or bi, or Asian.

BUT GOD HELP THE WORLD if they have to actually have to imagine a character who is TWO things apart from white, hetero, cis and male! The only POSSIBLE explanation is that it’s filling out some mythical goddamn checklist.

It is to fucking puke.

It blows my mind that people get SO FUCKING UPSET when confronted with any character that isn’t some cishet white male. As if, yeah, as if it’s a deliberate, personal assault. It’s so sickening.