DC continues to make very bad choices in whom to employ
Some people might wonder if DC's gone miles out of their way only so often for the sake of trying to ape Marvel in questionable hiring practices, they're even willing to employ somebody who's written very offensive stories. Case in point: Gretchen Felker-Martin, the transsexual writer of the aforementioned Jason Todd series, whom the New York Post reported 3 years ago had written a repellent screed against Harry Potter author J.K Rowling:
When the Indonesian artist Ardian Syaf was discovered stealthing antisemitic codes into his artwork for Marvel, he was fired, and rightfully so. DC may also have distanced themselves from him, yet as this latest case makes clear, they refused to learn any lessons, and seeing that Marvel still employs Saladin Ahmed, last time I looked, it's clear they too continue failure to learn.
A transgender novelist has come under fire after penning a self-confessed “depraved psychosexual horrorshow” in which J.K. Rowling is burned alive in her home.Even more astonishing that DC would hire such a vile person to write comics for them just a few years after the initial controversy, in which even more chilling details turned up. It's clear DC's management has no moral backbone anymore, and their willingness to hire the disgraced Gerard Jones in the past was certainly a precursor to this current scandal. Based on these revelations, who knows what'll turn up in the Jason Todd series besides what's already been mentioned? As of now, it takes on a whole new meaning, and anybody who recognizes why Martin's screeds against Rowling are wrong will avoid buying the upcoming comic altogether. Better still, they could boycott DC's current output entirely.
Gretchen Felker-Martin’s debut novel, “Manhunt,” follows two trans women “attempting to survive in a world ravaged by a plague which transforms anyone with enough testosterone in their system into a shrieking monstrosity.”
They find themselves at war with “TERFs,” the derogatory acronym for so-called trans-exclusionary radical feminists — including the “Knights of J.K. Rowling.”
The protagonists then talk about “the Harry Potter lady,” referring to Rowling, 56, who has received death threats for her comments about biological sex and the transgender community.
The “Harry Potter lady … ended up being a crazy TERF, like, super intense,” Felker-Martin’s character said, saying Rowling hired military contractors and “had them all up at her castle in Scotland.”
One of the group knocked over a lamp, sparking a fire and explosion that left Rowling and the others “to burn alive, and finally the whole castle collapsed,” Felker-Martin wrote.
[...] “Manhunt” is the best-seller in Amazon’s “LGBTQ+ Horror Fiction” genre — but around a quarter of the reviews give it the lowest one-star rating, some ripping it as “rape fantasy” and “misogynistic trash.”
“A trans-identified male fetishist writes his fantasy about raping and murdering women he hates in a post-apocalyptic world,” one recent review said, insisting there is “no redeeming aspect to this story. None.”
Women’s rights campaigners have also attacked the book as dangerous.
“‘Terf’ is simply the new term for ‘witch’, making us fair game to be threatened, harassed, and yes, even killed,” Karen Varley, co-founder of Women Uniting UK, told The Times of London.
“Astonishing that any responsible publisher would publish this vile male sexual fantasy.”
When the Indonesian artist Ardian Syaf was discovered stealthing antisemitic codes into his artwork for Marvel, he was fired, and rightfully so. DC may also have distanced themselves from him, yet as this latest case makes clear, they refused to learn any lessons, and seeing that Marvel still employs Saladin Ahmed, last time I looked, it's clear they too continue failure to learn.
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