STOP Giving Jake Lockley the Evil Eye
To the artists who feel the bizarre compulsion to draw Jake Lockley with one red eye, here is a step-by-step tutorial:
Here’s why. The single red eye promotes the idea of the “evil alter” trope. It suggests that Jake is an alter who has “the evil eye” or “has blood in his eye.” It indicates that he’s the violent, unhinged one who is driven by his “baser instincts.”
When you promote this idea through your art and spread it around on the internet, you are further marginalizing the already marginalized DID community.
There is a responsibility in art. As artists, you have the power to shape the discourse of ideas.
When you promote the idea that an alter within a DID system is “evil,” you are reinforcing this false and harmful stereotype that has been portrayed in media for DECADES. You are reinforcing stigmas in a way that has an impact on REAL PEOPLE’S lives.
It doesn’t matter that a promo photo of Oscar as Jake shows him wearing a single contact lens that makes one pupil larger. The production team rejected this look for Jake in the show. Both of his pupils are the same size when we see him in his scene.
It doesn’t matter that Jake shoots Harrow. He is enacting eye-for-an-eye justice to end a cycle of abuse and violence (as is his right as a good Jewish boy).
Marc is the only one who has one pupil that’s larger than the other, in the first scene of Episode 5. The uneven pupils suggests that Marc has been hit so hard that he has a concussion.
And YES, that is Marc in the opening of Ep. 5. It is not Jake. Mohamed Diab has confirmed multiple times that this is Marc. And regardless, we KNOW that it is Marc. Jake would never take a sharp object and try to hurt himself with it. That’s Marc’s MO. At this point, Jake is LITERALLY rolling over in his sarcophagus, trying to get Marc out of there.
So please, artists, I beg you, the next time you get the urge to draw Jake with one red eye, refer to the tutorial above…
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