Things I Learned From The Journalism About Batgirl #19

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 the “first…” of anything, that becomes the story entirely, nothing else matters (that one was our fault, but still annoying).

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

5) Some journalists think every character in a comic is automatically a superhero.

6) There are people who actually think having a character be trans AND Asian is somehow playing “minority bingo.” Actually saw several sites say something like that. Yep. 2013. Because, as we all know, characters can’t be TWO things!

Sheesh.

Some of the articles were absolutely lovely. But some make me never want to read blogs about comics written by non-comics people ever again. YIKES.