#we’re finally getting stephanie williams after how many years of the same yt men

[annamariedarkholmes]

the way that adult men working both in the x-men office and “influencer” fan-adjacent spaces always behave so performatively extra about gambit will never stop being weird to me. it’s such a nasty underhanded way to gatekeep his (mostly female lbr) fans under the guise of (repeatedly asserting) mere personal preference

#this isn’t the same as fandom arguments btw bc it’s often unprovoked out of nowhere bashing #gambit #x #he’s not real #but his fans that you keep trying to gatekeep are #this shit isn’t new btw #the office tried to kill him ever since antarctica #i’ve read account of people attending cons in the early aughts #and the x-office men on the panel would pull this shit on the FANS ASKING QUESTIONS #the x-office keeps getting more homogenous the further we get from summer 2020 #i knew it was just corporate pinkwashing and there you go #otherwise then where is vita #where is kelly thompson #why is leah only getting an occasional mini #treating tini howard like their peggy olson ‘superstar’ while culling all other female/nb/non-white writers…. tells you everything #we’re finally getting stephanie williams after how many years of the same yt men #and is she actually getting a book #or just a story included in marvel pride? #i don’t give a shit about what those men like and they don’t have to share my interests #but the fact that they’re actively trying to sabotage everything outside their specific personal preference? #not promoting r&g until presales ended for 1 #while they promoted captain britain and x23 EARLY? #was a very specific choice #i remember this song and dance from long ago #see also ‘you’re not real fans’ levied at girls/women who loved movie rogue and her kinship w wolverine #even though they’re super close in the comics too #i know it’s partly the subset of weirdo kitty pryde fans (including our current x-editor lol) #who think any female character who logan mentors is a ~threat~ but it’s mostly misogyny