Female Marvel Comics editor harassed online for milkshake selfie

[IronLionZion]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/news/female-marvel-comics-editor-harassed-online-milkshake-selfie/



Heather Antos, an editor for Marvel Comics, has been deluged with abuse online after posting an image of herself drinking milkshakes with six female Marvel employees, with a caption reading "It's the Marvel milkshake crew! #FabulousFlo" – the latter referencing the recent death of the legendary female Marvel publisher Flo Steinberg.

For the crime of consuming cold beverages while being female, Antos was then attacked across social media and via email and her Twitter direct messages by angry Marvel fans, who used the image as an opportunity to rant about "Social Justice Warriors", "fake geek girls" and feminism.

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

Antos condemned the abuse the following day, writing that "the internet is an awful, horrible, and disgusting place." She added, "Woke up today to a slew of more garbage tweets and DMs. For being a woman. In comics. Who posted a selfie of her friends getting milkshakes."

But the incident has once again ignited a firestorm of discussion about the prevalence of abusive responses to both gender and racial diversity in the comic book world, and the recent increase in female staffers.

Chelsea Cain, the writer behind the female superhero comic book Mockingbird, left Twitter in October 2016 following months of harassment, while Zainab Akhtar, a British-Muslim writer, closed her Eisner Award-winning comic book journalism site Comics & Cola last year after being deluged with racist, misogynistic abuse via email and social media.

Her milkshake brings all the trolls to the yard. My favorite comment was the one calling these women "creepy" with no life experience.

[Blue_Adept]

1. The pushback was great to see

A lot of people across various publishers really stood up online and gave hell about it, as did a lot of fans.

The squeaky wheels are the loudest and we're realizing there are more of them than we realized. But they've always been a part of it. Every fandom has a Trump base level in it.

[Bettie]

2. I'm confused as to why a selfie of

female co-workers having a snack is a problem.

Oh wait, fanboys who can't deal with female writers.

Grow up boys.

[IronLionZion]

6. People simply existing and living life is a problem for some people

who think they seemed to have gotten lost on their way to the kitchen and need some asshole to remind them of their place.

[ProfessorGAC]

26. You're Not The Only One, Bettie!

I don't know how anybody looks at that picture and starts railing against feminists and SJWs. There is simply no connection to be made.

Like another poster said, these are idiot fanboys who can't deal with young women working for a comic book company.

I see that picture and i see young women having fun as friends. I'm confused along with you.

[Neema]

3. Good grief. I'm shocked they didn't fat shame them too, though none of them are remotely overweight.

But they're women, and they're eating. So that's enough for the doughy trolls who do shit like this.

[Baconator]

4. There's just so many reinforced stereotypes in these kinds of stories...

It's ridiculous...

[Alpeduez21]

5. Now I want a milkshake.

Ya'll keep posting those selfies. I love the woman two fisting it. I know she's probably holding the camera person's but it's funny to me. Go big or go home.

[IronLionZion]

12. Indeed, play like a champion

This woman knows how to do it

[Javaman]

38. no kidding. My favorite is a vanilla sprinkled with cinnamon.

soooooo freaking good.

[HughBeaumont]

7. The Richard Spencer Blues Explosion strikes again.

Fucking Pepe-worshipping AnCap shitlinks.

[MagickMuffin]

8. They are Deplorable Cucks

Pepe worshipping little CUCKS!!!

[HughBeaumont]

10. It's pathetic.

What do these bad-haircut-having lamers interpret this as? "There Will Be Blood" or something?

"HOW DARE YOUSE DRINK MY MILKSHAKE FEMINAZEE!!1!!1!!!!"

Sometimes a milkshake . . . is just that.

[MagickMuffin]

15. Us wimin scare them lil boys

It must have been soooo lonely never getting dates in high school!!!

[joshcryer]

27. Careful, you'll trigger their sensitivities.

[Mediumsizedhand]

9. I figured they are going to all be calling them fat, drinking a milkshake and all.

[jmowreader]

11. Theres only one proper response

Ask every artist to include a three-panel sequence of the book’s hero killing and eating Pepe the Frog. The artist who created Pepe hates what the alt right has done with Pepe, so he’d be onboard with it.

[Orrex]

13. Assholes gotta asshole.

k/r

[Cuthbert Allgood]

14. Any Marvel fan that would switch to DC over this is lying.

I think the picture is awesome and, as a Marvel fan, glad that they have people like this working for them.

[FSogol]

16. +1 n/t

[IronLionZion]

18. Writers like this are what makes them great!

Marvel has had women in leadership right from their beginning, which is why these ladies referenced the late Flo Steinberg who has been producing comics since the 1960's.

[Iggo]

28. His handle is Kal-el.

I don't think that's a Marvel fan thinking about switching to DC.

[Cuthbert Allgood]

30. Didn't even notice that.

Kind of like me saying that I've always hated Stephen King

[Iggo]

33. lol...YUP.

[Oneironaut]

17. Nothing like making comic book fans look like creepy, misogynist dorks who live in their mothers

basement. I imagine the Cheeto dust flying as these stained-shirt neckbeards angrily slam down on their keyboards about how teh Feminazis are coming to turn their favorite comic book hero into an “effeminate sissy-boy.” This is all all while having tabs open to pickup artist and MRA websites where their pasty virgin bretheren comfort each other on how the evil wimminz never give nice guys like them attention.

[dpd3672]

19. I'm aware of the "milkshake" song

but I'm a bit square...what does it symbolize, and why is it so (bothersome? offensive?) to people reacting to this picture?

[Iggo]

21. I could teach you...

...but I'd have to charge.

[dpd3672]

24. Hahahahaha

I walked RIGHT into that one

[IronLionZion]

23. It's not about the milkshake

it's about the idiotic and completely false stereotype some assholes have of who "should" be writing their comic books. There are "hidden figures" in lots of industries that are assumed to be made up of Whitey McStraightMales that are actually women, minorities, gays, etc.

Most right wing sci fi geeks still can't handle the fact that the Matrix movies were produced by two trans women for example. Or that one of the early lead researchers in stealth bomber technology was a brown person. Or how many black women were involved in NASA space flights (the movie Hidden Figures) and many more.

These facts shatter the myth that human civilization was developed through the brilliant ingenuity of only one type of human.

So it shocks these losers to find out their favorite comic books were written by women.

[Cuthbert Allgood]

31. I would argue

that these losers haven't really even been to a comic con, then. Because then they'd know the reality of who makes their comics.

[sweetloukillbot]

36. I think it's less about who writes the comics, more about who they write them FOR

Marvel's sales have been declining for years. The alt-right and neckbeard contigent blame that on Marvel's outreach to female and minority readers with characters like the Muslim Ms. Marvel, the female Thor, the African-American Captain Americas and Iron Mans, Black Panther, et al. Critics love the books, but the comic book gatekeepers are convinced this is causing the decline of comics, when in reality it has to do with how the publishers sell their comics to shops.

[Iggo]

20. Hey, fan boys. Those women are better than you. (n/t)

[NewJeffCT]

22. What a bunch of cucks

scared of a bunch of girls that look like they're having a great time. The horror!

[Orrex]

25. WHY IS THAT ONE COVERING HER BEVERAGE?!?!?

WHAT'S SHE TRYING TO HIDE???????????????????????????????????????????

[Cuthbert Allgood]

32. She's drinking the blood of a newly born Christian

Gotta keep that under wraps as much as possible.

[Orrex]

34. Yeah but that's all women, no?

They need it to sustain their evil second X-chromosome or something.

[Cuthbert Allgood]

35. True

[SonofDonald]

29. Seven Beautiful Women

Drinking milkshakes and having a great time.

If you find ANYTHING wrong with that you've got serious problems, it's the dumpf effect, they think they have a champion leader.

But lemmings follow their leaders right off a cliff, to bad it won't happen, but at least we can identify more of them now.

[Javaman]

37. what the hell?

I just cant fathom why the photo would cause an outrage.

that is just plain fucked up.