First of all, I need to do something that isn't easy for me or really anybody. I need to completely and totally apologize for my comment. I have been dealing with my share of pressure from heavier topics and I have taking it out on a lot of people. Most of whom do deserve it but based on this wonderful response you are clearly not one of them. And considering how you seem to deal with the idea of how progress really is, you clearly are more lucid about it then a lot of people on this site are.

Furthermore I must now plead ignorance on comic books in general which may render the remainder of my moral authority meaningless in your eyes. I watched a lot of comic book animated series in the 1990s myself (I was a big fan of the Fox version of X-Men) and I have been taken my issues out on the culture wars on other people who I believe are on the wrong side of this.

I'll be honest: when it comes to so much about pop culutre and representation, I think both sides are to put it mildly misguided. I think the people who truly believe that movies like Star Wars or the Berlanti intepreations of comic books have been desecrated with minority characters are at best completely deluded. (Last I checked the original DVDs for Battlestar Galactica DID not stop existed when Katee Sachoff was cast as Starbuck in the SCI-fi version) I just don't feel strongly enough about comic books to care.

I can't comprehend why people feel diversity bothers them so much. I really don't. Usually it doesn't affect the majority of my work but I took particular offense when the review bombing of the more recent version of The Wonder Years came out three months before it debuted. (I'm still bitter it was cancelled by the way.) No it doesn't frustrate me this article exists. Honestly there are too few of them on this site. And you have a valid point about the representation thing. I do think the stories I mentioned above would be more interesting than the ones we got for either DC movies or MCU.

fOR the record before The Amazing Spider-Man was released Andrew Garfield made a back-handed joke that 'what if MJ was a guy?" in entertainment weekly. And he was excoriated on social media for saying so.

I believe representation matters in our society. I do. And I have to tell I like other stories like this, just not necessarily in comic book form. What bothers me is the people who do seem to believe that the Wonder Woman and Black Panther movies were some kind of victory for race and gender when all they were were victories for race and gender...In comic book movies, which is not the same thing. You clearly are not that and you bore the brunt of my frustration and rage about other things, and I'm sorry for that.