I don't quite feel like it was skipped over. It was played as something unusal, something that gave a definite reaction from Minmax, Complains and Fumbles. Big Ears even looks guilty and ashamed for it. To me it gave more of a "this is awkward but we don't know what to say" vibe.Glemp wrote:For context, they aren't objecting to female characters per se. They're complaining about female characters that have "Is a female character" as their defining trait. I don't read printed comics, so I don't know how Thor is doing now, but this was from an early issue. You will note an awful lot of focus on Thor's gender. By comparison, Big Ears being gay was skipped over because his friends don't consider it important, and that's how minority characters should be written - as people that happen to be gay/black/female/whatever.BlueAmaranth wrote:I listened to another little piece of it earlier and they were literally saying that creators who make an effort to include women and minorities in their work are "the real sexists and racists." Like, apparently whoever decided to make Thor a woman is a big old sexist, somehow.RocketScientist wrote:Am I the only one who thinks it's bloody hilarious to hear that MRAs were calling someone else a bully or a troll?
I would have preferred for Big Ears to come up and join in the hair conversation. When he does, the male goblin appears on the pillar but no one even blinks an eye at it and keeps talking about hair instead. That would have shown being gay as completely natural and not extraordinary at all.
But either way, Big Ears is not "the gay character," which I am thankful for.