and unfortunately, this massive corporation is using NB and female competitors to mask their shitty actions in wokeness.

I was called fat and ugly, with many iterations of both.

What do you even imagine this to mean? It’s an entertainment product. Every pro league is fundamentally about marketing.

I am not the most articulate, and you are making a lot of assumptions about me based on that. I am definitely not what you are assuming me to be, and you really need to check how quickly you tell someone to "shut the fuck up."

Naturally that’s going to be fodder for folk who believe minorities have to be elevated and can’t succeed on their own merit. The immediate response is to suggest that it was never a meritocracy, that the barriers facing women, other races and LGBTQ people (active hostility, discrimination, unwelcoming atmosphere,…

There is the context that the player base has been begging WotC to be more open with its plans for the league. Instead their announcements have been months late and their decision making hasn’t been consistent. This is where most of the frustration from pro players and others is coming from.

Except it’s never been ‘about the marketing’ before.

I mean, yeah, any tournament is a marketing exercise, but the marketing aspects need to be secondary to the game itself

I think the controversy is less over the specific picks and more over how they were picked.

you know, the thing with bendis, and keep in mind, this is the guy who also wrote miles morales, who is an incredibly popular poc character, is that he is not just a guy who made “a character of color written by someone who is not” but rather this is a personal thing for him because he had adopted 2 children who are…

This article is a real stretch suggesting that Marvel is “disrepecting” Riri because they wanted to use “Ironheart”; a term that existed before the JAV movie used it.

While there’s nothing wrong with porn parodies, the optics of giving a 15-year-old girl the same superhero name as a pre-existing, sexually explicit knockoff are especially bad considering the critiques leveled at Marvel for creating yet another character of color who won’t be written by a person of color.

Why is this recycled news?  This is a 3 year old article, and it wasn’t even news then.

People need to chill out. Her name of Ironheart has nothing to do with porn. At the end of the civil war, Tony Stark fell into a coma fighting Captain Marvel, so Riri Decided to continue his legacy as a hero. With the guidance of an A.I. duplicate of Stark, Riri created a new much better suit of armor and took up the…

This was exhausting to read, and was clearly written by someone looking for a reason to be pissed off. Why not celebrate Marvel’s move toward more diversity and inclusivity? I suppose the author had to find an incendiary angle to grab more readers?

The last sentence of the second to last paragraph confuses me because as far as I know, the creator of Riri Williams has two black children. and he stated that he made Riri so they can have someone to look up to.

omg no one was gonna know that until you pointed it out.

Going to respectfully disagree with pretty much the entire premise of this post.

Or maybe, just maybe, a billion dollar studio leading the market in its field shouldn’t make decisions based on what an ancillary Japanese porn company nobody gives a shit about has done. As I said in another post, if you discount alternative superhero names based on porn-parodies of the existing one you’re probably…

[Billion dollar premier fiction corp]: We want to name our character Ironheart.
[Blog]: Sorry guys, a 3rd rate Japanese porn studio got there first.
[Billion dollar premier fiction corp]: Oh well! I guess it’s back to the drawing board. Making decisions based on what obscure porn studios say has never failed us before.