You already have literally the near totality of the medium, but one character acting like a soldier makes you rant that you don't want to read her book?
No, that's not what set me off. What set me off was reading comment after comment about how much this rocked. How awesome Wondy was for doing it and--there were fewer of these, but they were there--what morons Bats and Supes were for criticizing her and/or not doing this kind of thing themselves. I'm pretty sure there was nothing by aravis here when I posted my first comment, and I know that deepspaceartist and jkcarrier hadn't weighed in yet. Literally everybody who'd commented liked what she did to Lord. It was a pretty big shock, because I'd expected it to be more of a 50/50 split.
Everybody here knows what a "trigger" is. I've seen trigger warnings on here for some things I'd expect to see warnings for (rape, homophobia), and others which I consider pretty much par for the course in comic books these days but which it doesn't hurt to have warnings for because it might push somebody's emotional button and you want to avoid that if possible (gore and violence).
People get into heated arguments over real life application of the death penalty, and when you come right down to it that's exactly what this is. Diana unilaterally decided that Max was too dangerous to live, and she executed him.
That kind of thing, more often than not, is a trigger for me. If the decision is popular, that makes it more difficult for me to ignore and to stay calm about.
There are exceptions, but going into those would probably create another wall of text, so I won't go into those unless you or somebody else asks me to.
You might be thinking that nobody forced me to read any of this stuff that ended up upsetting me, and you're right. I could've chosen not to read the post and the comments. And considering that I've gotten into arguments over this story before, that probably would have been the smart thing to do.
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No, that's not what set me off. What set me off was reading comment after comment about how much this rocked. How awesome Wondy was for doing it and--there were fewer of these, but they were there--what morons Bats and Supes were for criticizing her and/or not doing this kind of thing themselves. I'm pretty sure there was nothing by aravis here when I posted my first comment, and I know that deepspaceartist and jkcarrier hadn't weighed in yet. Literally everybody who'd commented liked what she did to Lord. It was a pretty big shock, because I'd expected it to be more of a 50/50 split.
Everybody here knows what a "trigger" is. I've seen trigger warnings on here for some things I'd expect to see warnings for (rape, homophobia), and others which I consider pretty much par for the course in comic books these days but which it doesn't hurt to have warnings for because it might push somebody's emotional button and you want to avoid that if possible (gore and violence).
People get into heated arguments over real life application of the death penalty, and when you come right down to it that's exactly what this is. Diana unilaterally decided that Max was too dangerous to live, and she executed him.
That kind of thing, more often than not, is a trigger for me. If the decision is popular, that makes it more difficult for me to ignore and to stay calm about.
There are exceptions, but going into those would probably create another wall of text, so I won't go into those unless you or somebody else asks me to.
You might be thinking that nobody forced me to read any of this stuff that ended up upsetting me, and you're right. I could've chosen not to read the post and the comments. And considering that I've gotten into arguments over this story before, that probably would have been the smart thing to do.
Unfortunately, I didn't do the smart thing.