I tried my best to ignore the haters being bitter about this monthâs Invincible Iron-Man, The tags flooding with hate and trolls wonât stop @âing me with salty rants and nasty video responses. I just had to get something off my chest as to why this rubs me off the wrong way.Â
If you didnât read the chapter, it starts with a flashback of Riri in elementary school.
What pissed off a lot of fanboys is little Riri asked her teacher to tell her she will never do it. This gives the impression that Riri wants to be oppressed or experience racism in order to succeed. So-again-white people declare her a bad character. While everyone is up at arms and cursing black women for this issue. They forget one thing: Black people arenât running Invincible Iron-Man. Brian Michael Bendis is as white as most of these haters. So why youâre blaming black people for a white manâs poor writing style is beyond me.Â
I had mutuals come to me saying I complain about this too much and Iâm taking this too seriously, but itâs difficult to ignore. Comic book writers have a big audience and they use the characters as a platform. And how Marvel is going, their political platform is going downhill. Fanboys say Marvel is âpandering to SJWSâ when I donât see how. Turning Captain America, Magneto, and Scarlett Witch HYDRA nazis is not a leftist move. And other characters are mouthpieces to be a shame of their race, gender, and sexuality and bashing activism (Nick Spencer, Iâm looking at you). Fans are angry how classic white characters are erased for women and PoCs to step in; like Tony Stark being in a coma from Civil War 2 and Riri filling in as Iron-Man. But, its STRAIGHT WHITE MEN making these bad decisions. But fanboys still blame women, PoCs, and LGBT folk for how Marvel comics is heading
As for Riri, I still love her. I just think her story is poorly executed by a white man who doesnât know what itâs like to be black. Social commentary is not his strong point. How Riri asked her teacher to disbelieve her for motivation reminds me of how Bendis had Miles Morales say not to acknowledge his blackness to that fangirl as if being black is a bad thing. Or had Miles get in a debate with Ganke about whoâs the most oppressed. In reality, black people would not do this.Â
Black people do not compete with other people of color. Black people do not go up to white people asking them to be racist to them. Bendis is only teaching his white readers that racism isnât real and black people are exaggerating for attention or that we want to be oppressed.Â
I stress how a black woman should write Invincible Iron-Man, but it seems Marvel will stick to Bendis. My advice to upcoming white writers, listen to us. Learn about our culture and struggles if you plan to write black characters. Theyâre fictional, but they represent us and how you write them affect how your readers view us as people.Â