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Deconnick is in and that's good, but not great. You're trying to make this about her when she isn't the point. This is about Marvel being hesitant to stray from the white male perspective. Might you even have the 2 female writers if Deconnick wasn't able to use her connections? Having two writers of other backgrounds is nice, but when you consider that one had connections, it doesn't mean as much. What is offensive is you guys always pay lip service to diversity and it's objectively just talk.
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I don’t know how often I can lay the same message out to you, but to hit it once again: I don’t hire writers based on their race, their religion, their gender, their sexual orientation, or their politics. I hire them solely and completely on the basis of their writing. In most cases, I don’t have any more information to go on beyond a byline name–that might suggest gender, but doesn’t specify anything beyond that. Now as I said initially, I will grant you that the situation may have become a bit of a self-fulfilling prophesy in that there don’t seem to be as many female writers or writers of color who are producing the sort of material that Marvel does. But there’s only so much that I can do about that situation–I can’t pull writers that don’t exist out of thin air, nor do I intend to make gender or background the criteria under which I hire a writer. We do bring in new creators all the time, so the door is open for people with the talent and the drive–but the people that you’re looking for have to be interested in walking through that door in the first place.
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dominocomics said: Plus she and others have addressed before that she didn’t get her job because of “connections”. Stop whining and go create something.
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nightwing45 said: It is disgusting how this anonymous asshole keeps harassing Kelly and implying there is some bias against writers of color and gender. He’s an idiot.
thomdunn said: Maybe if people asked this question WITHOUT bringing up Kelly Sue, they might get an answer that they’re looking for. It’s certainly fair to criticize the abundance of straight white male writers, but not with backhanded misogyny.
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