#MeToo and Cancel Culture: Friday is bring your own torches and pitchforks day!

Blasterbot

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Conan Comic Writer Jason Aaron forced to apologize for including attractive Woman with feathers in her hair and other Native American dress in a Conan comic!

This vicious cultural appropriation of American indigenous culture took place in a story involving a love story between an indigenous woman and a foreign born male. Apparently the Pocahontas revision story didn't go over well with some on social media.

Among those harmed by the derivative story was writer Kelly Lynne D’Angelo whose written things called Final Space and My Little Pony Equestria Girls: Choose Your Own Ending.


Thankfully, Jason Aaron has already apologized profusely and donated all of his money from this comic to Native American Womens charities for his ruthless colonization. The characters name and likeness will be changed in future collections both in print and digital as well.

wait hot native girls. that is right up my alley. please keep the colonization coming.

edit: oh it is marvel... not really into the whole man having his balls in a woman's purse thing. any other recs?
 

Captain X

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Conan Comic Writer Jason Aaron forced to apologize for including attractive Woman with feathers in her hair and other Native American dress in a Conan comic!

This vicious cultural appropriation of American indigenous culture took place in a story involving a love story between an indigenous woman and a foreign born male. Apparently the Pocahontas revision story didn't go over well with some on social media.

Among those harmed by the derivative story was writer Kelly Lynne D’Angelo whose written things called Final Space and My Little Pony Equestria Girls: Choose Your Own Ending.


Thankfully, Jason Aaron has already apologized profusely and donated all of his money from this comic to Native American Womens charities for his ruthless colonization. The characters name and likeness will be changed in future collections both in print and digital as well.

Idiot.
 

prinCZess

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It's a Conan comic. It has as much relation and relevance to historical (or mythological) figures which might be referenced as Xena: Warrior Princess or any other fantasy comic. That tends to come with the territory.

A requiring-research allusion to Pocahontas via one of the character's is not violence...And, frankly, what was referenced of the story sounded pretty neat. Allusion-Pocahontas by naivety/betrayal becoming queen of the undead-island that lures and kills greedy explorers sounds badass.

And she rocks the Conan-universe golden boob-cap things.
 

What's the sitch?

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Wait, Conan is based on a true story? Native lore? Is this what is being implied? People applying real life groups to fantasy characters/races/groups that exist in completely different timelines and worlds.


Based lore stories if true
 

What's the sitch?

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The slap seemed real to me to be honest and just reinforces the stereotype that black people are violent, uncivilized and can't control their primal urges in comparison to other races.

If it was staged, he should have thought it out better before agreeing to it, especially considering the acting career he represents.
 
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Terthna

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The slap seemed real to me to be honest and just reinforces the stereotype that black people are violent, uncivilized and can't control their primal urges in comparison to other races.

If it was staged, he should have thought it out better before agreeing to it, especially considering the acting career he represents.
My mother (who is very white) would disagree with you; she thinks the slap was entirely justified, in light of what Chris Rock said about Will Smith's wife. In her words "you do not make jokes about a woman like that".
 

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it was 100% staged, watch the video carefully and it doesn't look like Smith's hand actually contacted Chris Rock, that was such a Hollywood Slap, big wind up, and Rock turned his head JUST enough that the fingertips MAY have brushed him, then rocks back on his heels, but the reaction is delayed too much to be 'natural'. Plus the live camera just HAPPENED to be at the perfect angle for the most dramatic view of the 'slap'.

Pure Hollywood.
 

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My mother (who is very white) would disagree with you; she thinks the slap was entirely justified, in light of what Chris Rock said about Will Smith's wife. In her words "you do not make jokes about a woman like that".

All, I hear is someone wanting to be treated unequally and believing in the use of violence to secure this unequal treatment.
 

Terthna

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All, I hear is someone wanting to be treated unequally and believing in the use of violence to secure this unequal treatment.
Then I didn't explain her feelings on the matter properly, because that in no way represents my mother. It was the specific kind of joke that Chris Rock made that bothered her, making fun of a woman who is losing her hair due to disease (which apparently is a special kind of suffering for a woman), not him makings jokes about women in general. She despises disparaging comedy targeted at people who are suffering, and has a very old school view on things in the vein of "talk shit, get hit". For example, Betty White made a joke about kids suffering from a particular disease once, and that was enough to put the woman on her shit list as well, and make her wish that someone would have slapped her for saying that.
 

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I would also point out that Chris Rock's claim that he didn't know about Jada having alopecia is an incredibly blatant lie; while his motives for doing so aren't clear, Rock has clearly had some sort of grudge against Will and Jada for *years* and has *repeatedly* targeted them for extremely nasty public abuse.

Rock has also, in one of his occasional forays into non-comedic content, wrote a book about why black women take a lot of abuse over hair, so he's literally the last person who can claim any kind of ignorance on the subject.
 

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