#the racism and transmisogyny in that comic runs insanely deep and is not helped by the other bigotry present (namely antisemitism)

[augustheart]

it is absolutely Nuts to see people still upholding morrison's older writing as some kind of bastion of progressive representation even though it is often deeply antiblack. both the depictions of rebis and especially the way that frenzy is written in doom patrol are racist. these trends continued into their creator-owned work like the invisibles, where the only black main character is written in even worse antiblack ways right down to the codename that she uses and black side characters are treated equally poorly.

there is also the transmisogyny of rebis' character and the absolutely horrific transmisogyny of as of yet unmentioned hilde's appearances in the invisibles including her very first appearance in the comic. morrison's transphobia, though now handwaved away by the fact that they have come out as genderqueer meaning that these things must for some reason be forgiven, is utterly sickening to read in these comics. i will not give brownie points for "representation" in a time when there were barely any trans characters in comics to characters who are made the butt of the joke by the narrative, are treated awfully by the characters around them, and are subjected to nauseating levels of violence.

these are not the only problems in morrison's late 80s/early 90s work, far from it, but they are the issues that i see handwaved away most frequently. grow a spine—if you can rightfully condemn the way they retconned talia and bruce's relationship as a product of racism, you can condemn their other racist and misogynist works.

#this is something i have been thinking about for awhile. the antiblackness in morrison's works is not some big secret #it is Extremely blatant. it is Right There. i remember all of that shit from the invisibles. i remember all of that shit from doom patrol. #this is not something they've grown out of with time--while they have apologized for talia's writing as they should-- #their other work goes unquestioned by fans #i cannot stress enough how much you should not look into the things in the invisibles because of how deeply deeply upsetting some of it is #the racism and transmisogyny in that comic runs insanely deep and is not helped by the other bigotry present (namely antisemitism) #racism / #anti grant morrison #transmisogyny / #antiblack racism / #transphobia /