By David Futrelle
Like the titular character in The Princess and the Pea, the members of the Great Internet Lady Hating Machine have developed a truly impressive sensitivity towards the slightest perceived discomfort. And so it shouldn’t really come as that much of a surprise that a small army of perpetually outraged comics fanbabies are currently losing their collective shit over a milkshake selfie.
On Friday, Heather Antos, a Marvel comic editor who just happens to be a woman, tweeted a selfie featuring her and a bunch of her female co-workers enjoying some delicious beverages together. “It’s the Marvel milkshake crew!” she announced to her Twitter followers.
She was immediately swarmed by a squadron of fanbabies furious that such “fake geek girls” had made their way into Marvel’s inner sanctum.
https://twitter.com/BAR199323/status/891847749599199232
https://twitter.com/DiversityAndCmx/status/891978745715843072
You're right, @DiversityAndCmx. No life experience, the creepiest collection of stereotypical SJWs anyone could possibly imagine. https://t.co/ywIRk8UTYx
— DarkJester (@DarkJesterofOz) July 30, 2017
According to Antos, the private messages she got in response to her tweet were considerably less polite. “[T]he internet is an awful, horrible, and disgusting place,” she wrote, noting that she woke up Sunday, two days after she posted the selfie,
to a slew of more garbage tweets and DMs. For being a woman. In comics. Who posted a selfie of her friends getting milkshakes.
And yes, the fanbabies are still going at it today. For many of Antos’ “critics,” the selfie proved a perfect excuse to rant about Marvel’s alleged “anti-white, anti-men agenda.”
https://twitter.com/MonsieurBallin/status/891666775015694336
This is why marvel comics is killing the industry no one wants to be fem moaned feminist propganda in a superhero comic.
— Ceecko of one (@Ceeckoful) July 30, 2017
Maybe Marvel should just close shop. I'd rather that than see them lose their dignity for a Marxist agenda.
— Maeko (@MaekoDaekal) July 29, 2017
https://twitter.com/Red_Vanguard/status/891918378352472064
One fellow wrote out a mini-manifesto explaining how the eeeevil SJWs were destroying comics.
https://twitter.com/W00dlee/status/891874744802398208
The critics filled their angry tweets with an assortment of buzzwords that will be instantly familiar to anyone who followed GamerGate.
https://twitter.com/DiversityAndCmx/status/891875572741230592
https://twitter.com/CanuckCon/status/891822485305516038
https://twitter.com/darling_kun/status/891850198552653824
Not that the fanbabies didn’t have their own “narrative” to promote. One of the central tenets: that so-called SJWs only pretend to like comics.
https://twitter.com/thebechtloff/status/891705124405604357
Comics themselves were irrelevant, SJWs wanted another notch on their bedpost of Moral Victories. It was never about content, just control
— RJ Frazer (@rjfrazer) July 29, 2017
https://twitter.com/DiversityAndCmx/status/891674600475676673
Some saw the all-female selfie as a threat not only to men but to … white people in general, predicting an imminent White Genocide of Marvel characters.
Diversity for #Marvel Comics means get rid of all White Men.
— Veritas (@Veritas4UToday) July 30, 2017
https://twitter.com/thebechtloff/status/891515050502107136
It didn’t take long for things to get creepy.
https://twitter.com/thebechtloff/status/891503206282522624
Naturally, the reactionary fanboys turned on those who offered solidarity to the Milkshake Crew.
https://twitter.com/eldermeeseeks/status/891905588925521920
https://twitter.com/johndavidson83/status/891799233275322368
https://twitter.com/Daddy_Warpig/status/891857865140445184
And others tried to dismiss the whole thing as fake:
https://twitter.com/DoctorDooomile/status/891683546246643712
https://twitter.com/DiversityAndCmx/status/891985792591122432
https://twitter.com/laughingdrag/status/891834215377096709
https://twitter.com/DiversityAndCmx/status/891984421519314944
https://twitter.com/Stmpy_Mch/status/891916686953136128
Happily, at this point the “virtue-signalers” are winning. A wide assortment of non-reactionary comics artists, sellers and fans, female and male, have been showing their solidarity with the Marvel Milkshake Crew, filling the #MakeMineMilkshake hashtag with tweets like these:
https://twitter.com/PlinaGanucheau/status/891848514170433536
https://twitter.com/bookswpictures/status/891766052463325184
https://twitter.com/mollyjane_k/status/891742534074073090
The early Superman comics in the 1930’s were pro-New Deal and almost socialist in certain ways. The entire genre has a major theme of taking on the powerful in the name of social justice. X-Men clearly had civil rights themes from the beginning, and people have argued that Professor X is a nod to MLK.
Reactionary special snowflakes seem to always make the fandom stigma worse. Same with GamerGate. The research purporting to show that violent media and porn cause violence is on pretty shaky ground. The last thing gamers and comic fans need is for Stormfront to control what’s acceptable in the fandom.
@ Alan
Heh. Yeah, looks like that memo drowned on its way across the pond.
@ History Nerd
Similarly, people have argued that Magneto is a nod to Malcolm X or to the Black Panthers.
…Well, I shouldn’t have expected any less bullshit from this crowd.
That said, milkshakes are great, but malts are really where it’s at.
@History Nerd
Steve Ditko is a Randroid.
@Schnookums
It’s possible Frank Miller knows Trump personally in some way and knows Trump is a complete sleaze.
Also, I’m going to just skip straight to asking for a ban for PPPP up there unless someone’s interested in sharpening their fangs, cos seriously?
Dalillama – I took P4 for a Poe, myself. If not, the Mallet of Loving Correction is definitely appropriate.
@Troubelle
I miss malts. 🙁
@Kupo
They actually still do them around where I live (northern KY). UDF does ’em and this one old-fashioned joint I can walk to does ’em. And they’re not hard to make–just add malt powder to a shake, and a shake can be made with a blender, ice cream, and milk. (Plus anything else you wanna add.)
@Troubelle
I know a place near me that makes them, but the malt will make me sick so I can’t have it. I’ve considered ordering malted sorghum or millet, which I could have, but they sell it in large quantities for brewing, so I just don’t have malts anymore.
This is a true statement. Malt powder makes a milkshake just about a hundred times better. And milkshakes are already damn good.
I like just about any ice cream treat though. I only let myself buy a carton of ice cream every few months or when I’m sick with a sore throat because I have zero self control around it.
@kupo
Aw, that’s shitty. Maybe you could ask some local micro-or-otherwise breweries if they have any overstock you could by off them? Like, not like a tablespoon, but a pound or something. I’m pretty sure it has a decent shelf life–I can say that the original malt powder was brought on expeditions up mountains and the like due to its ability to keep in adverse conditions. Pretty sure there’s a mountain range somewhere named after its inventor.
Back on topic, I posted about this on my FB and a friend commented that he wishes geek girls were around when he was a kid. I pointed out that we’ve always been there, and that he didn’t notice us because we were too busy reading comics and playing video games. Now he’s saying there are more of us now and I’m rolling my eyes so freaking hard but I don’t want to get into a fight on FB and he’s a good guy. It’s just so frustrating. 🙁
Several others chimed in, but just to add on those trying to borrow Jack Kirby’s badassness to go after the “SJW’s”: Jack Kirby would have fucked your shit up. And reminded you at the same time that Social Justice was absolutely part of comics, thank you very much.
(Also, an apology to our gracious host for continuing to change my name in such a short period of time, but this one was too good to pass up.)
Yep, women working at Marvel is all a plot by the SJWs. No woman played a major role at Marvel before SJWs appeared.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Severin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo_Duffy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Simonson
@TheKND,
Or 1980’s Marvel, or 1970’s, or…. Though admittedly 70’s Marvel could be best summarized as ‘What the HELL was the Bullpen smoking?!?!‘, given some of the stories they produced.
Weren’t these the same guys that were complaining about Star Wars: The Force Awakens adding Black guys, strong women, and English actors to the series when ‘none of the previous six movies had any of those?’ >.<
Or Babylon 5, for that matter.
@tim gueguen,
Amongst many, many other women.
Axecalibur: Middle Name Danger:
I’m sorry for correcting your Star Wars story, but I feel it’s important that it was her party. And she didn’t really want the jerk friend there, but allowed her boyfriend to invite him.
So the guys go to her Star Wars party, and still assume they know more about Star Wars than her.
@Tessa
I see what you did there, and raise you giggles
?
Ah! Remembered wrong. Correction appreciated 🙂
Even better, by which I mean even worse, by which I mean even fuckin better! Dudes, yo…
http://www.reactiongifs.us/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/rolling_eyes_neil_degrasse_tyson.gif
@Robert Walker-Smith:
Or how they didn’t get the emotional or political message from the death of Supes, and just saw a bunch of full page panels of two dudes smashing?
@Redsilkphoenix
That’s actually a book from 1970. One of Dennis O’Neil and Neal Adams’ best works, that entire run.
http://s3.mmoguildsites.com/s3/gallery_images/296732/original.jpg
@monika-the-comic-fan,
I was close on the date, at least. 😀
And thanks for that link. I had seen those three panels used in various contexts over the years whenever a discussion on the pros and cons of using social issues in comics arose. Never learned which Green Lantern comic they came from, let alone why exactly that exchange took place. Now I know.
Thanks.
Damn, that Green Lantern panel… “[Why haven’t you helped the black humans]? Answer me that, Mr. Green Lantern” “I can’t”. That really got me.
@monica That issue was interesting. Overall, whenever Green Arrow and Green Lantern met, they had very interesting discussions about their politics.
Oh, wait… I mean… SJW bad! All lives matter! GRR! GRR!
(can I buy comics now?)
Green Lives Matter! Purple Lives Matter! Orange Lives … urgh…. Matter, too!
I still want Trump to become a good President (which is my wish for ALL Presidents), but the last 193 days aren’t giving much hope, are they. Who knew the jobs he would create would mostly be “Communications Director” and “Personal Lawyer”?
(One possible definition for Trump of “become a good President” does include “not be President any longer”)
Re: Right wing successful comic books… wait, no that DQ’s Dilbert Adams, doesn’t it (not a comic book).
@Whoever
Monstress by Marjorie Liu and with art by Sana Takeda from Image? It’s very, and I mean VERY, dark fantasy, and looks like this:
With not fully woman creative team…
Gwenpool is generally drawn by women (Gurihiru or Irene Strychalski); The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl has Erica Henderson on art; Gotham Academy is co-written by Becky Cloonan (she also writes the current run of Punisher, but I’ve not read anything from that); G. Willow Wilson is writing Ms. Marvel since some years (I generally don’t like Wilson’s writing, but this is the exception).
Eh… I might remember more. :3