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    Top 5 M-SHE-U Failures

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    On 4/13/2023 at 2:33 AM, JC25427N said:

    Nothing to do with being American or not, you didn't mention a matter of historical or scientific fact, you mentioned you would not be surprised if someone participated in a certain historical event that had heavy political connotations. 

    It's like the difference between saying "This tree burned down" and "I wouldn't be surprised if he was the type of person to go around burning trees".  

    Ah, I see. My inference that he may be the type of individual who would have been involved in the insurrection puts it out of bounds. My bad! Thanks for the heads up.

    Top 5 M-SHE-U Failures

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    On 4/13/2023 at 2:03 AM, PopKulture said:

    Just as a heads-up, this would probably be considered by moderation a trespass into politics, which is expressly forbidden on these Boards. I don't want to see anyone get a flogging, 'less of course they're into it.  :x

    Thanks for the heads up! As a non-American, I'm always surprised when matters of historical and/or scientific fact are considered political by my American brethren! ;) I'll try to be more careful in the future.

    Top 5 M-SHE-U Failures

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    On 4/13/2023 at 12:04 AM, sfcityduck said:

    I'm not "blindly accusing" anyone.

    Unless you are saying that you're knowingly accusing people, you may want to re-read some of your previous posts in this thread, with an eye towards what you are implying are the motivations of anyone who disagrees with your position.

    On 4/13/2023 at 12:04 AM, sfcityduck said:

    Corporations almost ALWAYS act of a desire to increase profits. Their Boards owe that duty to shareholders. There's nothing wrong with that. I don't find blaming the "corporations" as a convincing argument. In the end, corporations are fun by people, and some pursue profits in a more palatable way than others. Marvel historically has been one of the good ones. I don't see Disney undermining that at all. 

    That doesn't make corporations immune from criticism. Is a desire to increase diversity within film a "palatable" way for a corporation (Disney/Marvel) to increase profits? Yes, of course! Has Disney done a good job? Not in my opinion, nor in the opinions of many in this thread.

    If your favorite coffee chain decided to use only fair-trade organic coffee beans in an attempt to increase profits by catering to individuals concerned about the pitfalls of globalization and the dangers of pesticide use (a laudable, if not wholly altruistic goal), but their coffee ends up tasting bad as a result, would you just keep drinking it without complaint, happy in the knowledge that at least foreign growers were getting their fair share without getting exposed to dangerous chemicals? If, by chance, you were unhappy about the change in your morning cup of joe, whom would you blame? The barista? Or the corporation that decided to move away from your preferred arabica bean? Would it make you more or less upset to know that they could have used other fair-trade organic beans that would have resulted in better tasting coffee, but inexplicably chose not to?

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    Top 5 M-SHE-U Failures

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    Didn't think it was possible, but@sfcityduck is making me feel more racist and misogynistic than Disney+'s She-Hulk writers did! ;) And all because I don't like the current creative direction of the MCU, the current crop of poorly written female characters, and the recent buffoonish portrayal of long beloved male characters who were previously tenured and central main protagonists in both the MCU, and the wider comics/movie industry.

    Does it feel a little uncomfortable as a white male to be calling out Disney/Marvel for diminishing their products by virtue of how they've gone about increasing the number of women and minorities in their franchises? Yes. But I'm calling out HOW they're doing it (at the expense of good story telling and character development), not THAT they're doing it.

    My 8-year-old (biracial, as that type of bona fides seems to matter nowadays) daughter LOVES comics, and women superheroes. I love introducing her to female superheroes whose values and work ethics she can emulate. I love empowering her, and making sure she knows that she has as much potential for greatness as any misogynistic boy who might try to tell her otherwise on the playground.

    But I see few of those values and ethics being meaningfully portrayed in the MCU. Instead, the portrayals of women and ethnically diverse characters in the MCU wreak of corporate tokenism, and the relegation of male characters and male character traits to being portrayed as "less than" are not things I want either my daughter or son to think of as acceptable.

    I'm not a fan of Nerdrotic. I wouldn't be shocked if you told me he stormed the capital on January 6. But that doesn't mean he hasn't hit on something here. Even a blind squirrel can find a nut sometimes and all that.

    Nor am I a fan of people blindly accusing others of bigotry for pointing out the problems which sometimes arise when corporations rushedly and clumsily try to make up for past societal (and corporate) wrongs - often only out of a desire to increase profits.

    By any metric you want to use (box office, critical reception, TV ratings, etc.), recent MCU productions are in a state of decline. Many fans are (reasonably) pointing to issues similar to those raised by Nerdrotic as potential factors in that decline. Voicing a similar position doesn't mean you're a racist, a misogynist, or that you're blind to Marvel's longstanding commitment to diversity.

    To the contrary, I would argue that insisting that Disney/Marvel commit to giving their female/ethnically diverse superheroes the same quality background, development, and storytelling which they previously afforded their white/male stable of superheroes, is a more socially responsible position to take. But that's just me.

    ***OFF TO EBAY*** Slabbed Silver Age DC Keys: Action Comics #242 (1st Brainiac), Adventure Comics #283 (1st Zod), Batman #181 (1st Poison Ivy), TEC #359 (1st Batgirl), Flash #123, maybe more!

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    Action Comics #242 – CGC 5.5 (CR/OW) – $4250 – First Appearance of Brainiac

    Adventure Comics #283 – CGC 5.0 (OW/W) – $400 – First Appearance of General Zod

    Batman #181 – CGC 7.5 (OW/W) – CGC 7.5 (OW/W) – $3000 – First Appearance of Poison Ivy

    Detective Comics #359 – CGC 7.0 (OW/W) – :news: SOLD :news: – First Appearance of Batgirl

    Flash #123 – CGC 5.5 (OW/W) – $1500 – First GA Flash in SA. First mention of Earth II

    Lois Lane #70 – CGC 7.5 (OW/W) – :news: SOLD :news: – First SA appearance of Catwoman

    ***OFF TO EBAY*** Slabbed Silver Age DC Keys: Action Comics #242 (1st Brainiac), Adventure Comics #283 (1st Zod), Batman #181 (1st Poison Ivy), TEC #359 (1st Batgirl), Flash #123, maybe more!

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    Eyeing a BIG (for me) book, and so I need to part with some of my Silver Age books. Spare me from posting them to feeBay!!!

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    Who has the worst comics seller's website?

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    Not a comic shop, but I find Heritage Auctions such a chore to navigate. There are so many layers and elements to each page, I find it overwhelming. CLink may be a tad outdated, but finding a given book for sale or auction is simple. With Heritage, I end up getting the last 400 sales of the book on the site, tons of irrelevant results, upcoming auctions, etc. I just find their interface really loud.