[Benn Roe]

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Originally Posted by Harbinger

And exactly how am i? Because i prefer characters to portrayed accurately or if diversity or inclusion is wanted that established characters not be butchered and new characters be created instead? That makes me a woman hater? You truly have no idea what you are talking about and should just go about your day instead of harassing people.

Well, part of the problem is that you consider a person of colour portraying a white comic character, or a woman portraying a male one, to be a "butchering" of that character. Can you stop and think about that opinion for a second? Butchering? Is whiteness an essential part of Valkyrie's character, or Heimdall's, or MJ's? Is maleness an essential quality for Ghost? Blue Marvel's point is a good one. What is it about these changes that really bothers you? Are you similarly bothered by changes of non-essential qualities in costumes? Story details? Surely you see that many costumes undergo changes to help them better translate to screen, and that stories often deviate from source material to better reflect the times, or better integrate with the new context of the over-arching storyline. Why is it then such a stretch to accept that these race and gender swaps also serve an important need?

Are you really advocating for the MCU to introduce brand new characters, not pulled from the comics, as the better vehicle for serving diversity? Somehow I don't think that would go over any better with grognard oldhead comic fans. It goes without saying that Marvel should be focused on introducing an array of diverse new characters in the comics, but you do understand that most of Marvel's popular, iconic characters built up that popularity over 40+ years, and new characters are rarely going to be immediately marketable as A-listers, so even that is a pretty underwhelming solution? Not to mention, many of Marvel's newer non-straight white cis-male characters who have gained traction, like Miss Marvel and Miss America Chavez, are often widely decried as illegitimate by "fans" espousing the same thinly-veiled subconscious racism and misogyny as you, because they're not straight white cis-men, so obviously they only exist to serve some insidious agenda that dares to threaten the refuges of white men by forcing them to read stories about black and brown people.

Diversity is absolutely crucial, and there is no obvious, uncontroversial path to get there, but only because white men are feeling increasingly threatened for reasons we often don't understand ourselves. You have work to do, dude. The feelings you're having don't come from any place other than bigotry, whether you're ready to process that or not.