Marvel Voices: Comunidades #1

[shakalooloo]

Two more pages. In a comment on my last post I used a term which I thought was alright, having seen it on the cover of this issue, and have been told that it's actually far from cool.

I'm happy to be educated on why it's not a great term to use, so here are two pages from the story in the issue which is what I based my judgement on:





Julion Anta, Enid Balám, Oren Junior and Federico Blee

Is Marvel being irresponsible in publishing this? Honest question, not being US-based and therefore being utterly ignorant of most of the conversation around this subject.

Comments

[luxshine]

And even the "e" use is hotly debated as many, many latin-americans don't like change or even understand why it's necessary to have a discussion of neutral-gender terms in a language that is completely gendered to a ridiculous point. Personally, I hate the use of the X as a gender neutral because it IS impossible to pronounce and makes it sound as if we were an off-brand X-men team, and also hate the absurd notion that some people have that the masculine in spanish is neutral (no, it's not. It's just that "male" is the default for a lot of people), and while I find the use of the ending "E" a bit clunky while speaking, I will respect any non-binary or trans person who asks me to use it and will use it in their presence. (Full disclosure, Mexican here, living in Mexico City)

[lordy_co]

Yeah, here in Brazil it's become another topic in the "culture wars" that some politicians think they're fighting, but it's still a widly unknown business for the rest of the population, who are still struggling to understand what each letter on LGBTQ stands for. I also hate how most of the Romantic languages are gendered towards the masculine instead of having a true gender-neutral alternative, but I always try to use the "e" instead of "x" because, if we want its use to become more widespread, we can't ask people to use a form of speech that they can't even pronounce XD

[luxshine]

Oh, politicians always make it so cluncky. A former president used to do the "Boys and girls" version every time, and it always sounded horrible. And there was a movement to try to use the @ as the gender neutral option when writing? Like saying Amig@s instead of Amigos and Amigas and that was even worse because at least with the X you have SOME idea of how the letter is pronounced, but @? How the hell do you even begin with that?!