tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596708332568087278.post375415232366290734..comments2024-01-24T10:39:27.668-05:00Comments on Coming Untrue: Just As I AmDr. S. L. Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06303707167715370504noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596708332568087278.post-46965276581078320232017-12-31T23:00:50.185-05:002017-12-31T23:00:50.185-05:00A fair response, Tom. Other than "well-inten...A fair response, Tom. Other than "well-intentioned," I can't see a thing you said about Sitterson above. But I sure take your larger point, for which even that comment was merely the introducer. There's something really toxic about the message that we are doomed to be whatever we happen to be at the moment. It masquerades as kindness and inclusivity, but ends in hopeless resignation to whatever guilt, disease, faults and sins we have now. <br /><br />It's really by the mercy of God that none of us gets to stay "just as we are."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596708332568087278.post-7766519783805243782017-12-31T11:39:30.022-05:002017-12-31T11:39:30.022-05:00Aubrey's triggered...attacking Christians seem...Aubrey's triggered...attacking Christians seems "spiteful, vengeful, cruel, ill-informed" to me. Just sayin'-coughin'davehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06688824684265007770noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596708332568087278.post-24984453718333281612017-12-30T22:41:48.496-05:002017-12-30T22:41:48.496-05:00Hi Anonymous,
Thanks for the feedback. I will gra...Hi Anonymous,<br /><br />Thanks for the feedback. I will grant you that my personal knowledge of the GI Joe comic and Aubrey Sitterson is certainly limited to what others have written about Sitterson’s firing, but it didn’t come from YouTube.<br /><br />If the “Salvo is a lesbian” angle is inaccurate, the best person to take it up with might be Megan Fox, who wrote the story up for PJ Media almost three weeks ago. The claim is still there in her headline, https://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/sjw-comics-writer-fired-turning-g-joe-character-overweight-lesbian/ which is where I first came across it. Fox does indeed quote Richard Meyer of Diversity in Comics, so maybe you’re right about where the story originated. But as far as I can tell, Fox still has comments enabled at PJM, so if you think her article is baseless and wrong, you should definitely say your piece there.<br /><br />My other link was to John Trent’s post at Bounding Into Comics http://boundingintocomics.com/2017/12/07/idw-canceled-book-low-sales-g-joe-writer-aubrey-sitterson-cries-wolf/ from around the same period in December. As far as I know, Trent has nothing to do with Richard Meyer.<br /><br />Assuming the facts around Mr. Sitterson’s job loss at IDW are genuinely in dispute, then admittedly I might have been better off to use a different lead-in to the spiritual point I was trying to make. Mea culpa.<br /><br />What does not seem disputable is that (1) Aubrey Sitterson made changes to some GI Joe characters in the interest of inclusivity, and (2) the comics did not sell sufficiently well to be continued. That’s as much I figured I needed to know to use the story as a lead-in to discussing the difference between, on one hand, celebrating people just as they are, and on the other, accepting them with a view to helping them become better in one way or another.<br /><br />I have no personal issue with anybody’s weight or color. Thanks for asking. As for being “spiteful, vengeful, cruel, ill-informed and bearing false witness due to being ill-informed”, it seems to me that if you read my post, the very meanest thing I say about Mr. Sitterson is that he hoped to appeal to a broader audience and that “such efforts are often well-intentioned”.<br /><br />All the best, <br /><br />TomTomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00346761712248157930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596708332568087278.post-4711247064772893272017-12-30T22:41:23.453-05:002017-12-30T22:41:23.453-05:00Riiiiiggghhht.
Can I ask you why you think Salvo ...Riiiiiggghhht.<br /><br />Can I ask you why you think Salvo is a lesbian? If you'd read the comic, you'd find that not once was her sexuality mentioned, addressed, hinted at.<br /><br />Is it because her body isn't like the typical comic woman body? Is it becuase you've not read the comic, but just watched Diversity In Comics rankings, (who also made the odd claim no one who bothered reading would)?<br /><br />Now, what characters were re imagined as people of color in Scarlett's Strike Force? Are you talking about Salvo again, or are you hinting at Matt Tracker? Sitterson had nothing to do with Tracker...that was another writer entirely, in another book that ties into Joe. Were you equally offended when Nick Fury was re imagined as Samuel L Jackson? If so, what is your aversion to people of color?<br /><br />GI Joe comics haven't been marketed just to boys in a rather long time. Even Larry Hama and his recently departed main artist Shannon Gallant are delighted the book reaches a diverse readership. Netho Diaz, the new artist, is similarly open to a wider readership.<br /><br />You're rather unfamiliar with the book you're discussing. Best not to write a blog after watching someone's badly researched YouTube feed.<br /><br />Better yet, maybe bothering to openly, in the spirit of all good Christians, approach any of the artists or writers involved for a fair discussion would have served you better. <br /><br />It seems you've not bothered getting the full facts before protheletyzing against a man. Now, what does the Bible say about bearing False Witness?<br /><br />For shame, in the rush to show a stranger in a bad light, you've done a rather unChristian thing. You were eager to hurt another man for selfish reasons.<br /><br />Right now, I'm doing what you say you want and being honest with you; you're far from fine as you are. You're spiteful, vengeful, cruel, ill-informed and bearing false witness due to being ill-informed.<br /><br />No, you are not fine as you are, but you can strive to be better.<br /><br />Do the Christian thing, Tom. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com