Just so you know, Devin Grayson’s issues with Romani and Navajo representation and her treatment of the sexual assault storyline with Dick are not the only reasons people dislike her. She wrote a book for DC that involved Oliver Queen making really creepy comments about Dick and Roy (and implied that he thinks both Dick and Roy are hot and that there’s a reason why people like to speculate about sidekicks and their mentors having relationships) and is a known brudick shipper. I’d say she still doesn’t deserve the amount of hate that she gets from people compared to her male counterparts, but there’s definitely reasons that she icks some people out.
Okay, but this is sort of proving my point? Like, those lines she gave to Ollie are WEIRD and I don't like them, and I'm not thrilled that they're in something official from DC, even if it's not canon canon. But this is also a really obscure novel that was published 16 years ago, has been out of print for I'd guess well over a decade, and which almost no one has read. And yet we're going out of our way to dig up "proof" that she should be hated, and it's circulated by people who have never seen the primary sources and often haven't read any comics at all. (Not you personally anon, I have no idea what you have and haven't read.)
Also, I just don't care if she ships BruDick. Like, I don't care. I wouldn't be happy if she put it in the comics (which DC would never allow), but I'm not going to condemn her for her private thoughts. She's also far from the only writer to allude to this, dating back decades - even Burt Ward, of all people, said it was a potential reading! I don't ship it, but Devin Grayson did not invent BruDick.
More importantly, where is this energy for the male writers who vastly outnumber her? Devin gets shit for writing a story where Dick was assaulted that was not handled as well as it could have been, but Marv Wolfman wrote a story where Dick was assaulted that was played for laughs, including having his teammate call him a slut, and I have never once seen posts circulating about how terrible Marv Wolfman is.
Where is this energy for Scott Lobdell, who is a confessed sexual harasser? Where is this energy for Chuck Dixon, who has gone fully alt-right? Where is this energy for Warren Ellis, who has been accused of sexual misconduct by over 60 people? And if you didn't know about those things, but you did know about everything Devin Grayson is accused of - none of which is anywhere close to this level of actively trying to hurt real people - why do you think that is? I know what my theory is.
I've been reading comics for 20 years, and I have been hearing vitriol against Devin Grayson - including things that turned out to be quite cruel lies - that whole time. Again, I'm not saying she has never made a mistake, or that I like every choice she's made, and I'm certainly not saying that you need to be a fan of hers if you aren't. You get to make your own decisions about whose writing you want to engage with and whose you don't.
But the discrepancy between the treatment she gets (and other female writers to a lesser extent) and the pass that is given to so many men who have done so much worse will always piss me off. That's all.
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