Comments on: What Quesada’s Foot-In-Mouth Syndrome Says About Comics http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2006-07-15_335 Because we care about stuff Fri, 16 May 2008 08:14:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: real men are not » Blog Archive » Things are getting worse http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2006-07-15_335#comment-1719 real men are not » Blog Archive » Things are getting worse Mon, 24 Jul 2006 04:11:48 +0000 http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2006-07-15_335#comment-1719 [...] Video games, while an easy target for some harsh and much deserved criticism, is like any other media outlet where an industry controlled by dominant groups can project a very certain image of minoritiy groups (if they even choose to make those groups visible at all). So let’s not forget that video games, like comic books or movies or tv, all have some very, very problematic representations of not only Asian Americans, but African Americans and most unexamined (and when examined quickly dismissed) of all, women. [...] […] Video games, while an easy target for some harsh and much deserved criticism, is like any other media outlet where an industry controlled by dominant groups can project a very certain image of minoritiy groups (if they even choose to make those groups visible at all). So let’s not forget that video games, like comic books or movies or tv, all have some very, very problematic representations of not only Asian Americans, but African Americans and most unexamined (and when examined quickly dismissed) of all, women. […]

]]> By: 100littledolls http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2006-07-15_335#comment-1604 100littledolls Sun, 16 Jul 2006 17:19:10 +0000 http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2006-07-15_335#comment-1604 Thank you, thank you for writing this. When I first came across the Quesada comment, I was pissed but also thought that he just didn't think about the issue before because of his own privilege. I was curious to see how he'd react to the criticism and was appalled by what he said and how he justified it. I just about threw all my X-Men comics out the door. Thank you, thank you for writing this. When I first came across the Quesada comment, I was pissed but also thought that he just didn’t think about the issue before because of his own privilege. I was curious to see how he’d react to the criticism and was appalled by what he said and how he justified it.

I just about threw all my X-Men comics out the door.

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