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Reading some Captain Marvel from 1983 where Monica Rambeau is the titular character. A black woman hero and all I can think of is if Marvel did this today there would be endless whinging on twitter about muh white genocide.

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[-] HiImThomasPynchon@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

Much of life was "apolitical" back then. Sure, she was a black woman in the title role of a comic book, but she wore the same skin-tight outfits as everyone else and posed in the same sexy ways.

Eventually people got smart to Marvel "inserting politics into everything" and we started the downward spiral

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

Yeah they still showed off her body a bunch of times. Still though for racists today, even a black woman being a sex object is too far.

[-] HiImThomasPynchon@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

I guess the real difference is racist comic book fans didn't have an internationally accessible platform

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